Elizabeth Gilbert Quotes
I have these new policies toward my life, like 'I will not accelerate when I see the yellow light.'
Quotes to Explore
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The biographical novel is a true and documented story of one human being's journey across the face of the years, transmuted from the raw material of life into the delight and purity of an authentic art form.
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I dislike society because conversation exhausts my brain more than silent thought - again, I cannot hold my water long enough for a prolonged conversation.
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My desire to be an artist really came out of being broke and unemployed and incapable of holding a job down. That's what it was driven by for sure.
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Destiny is something not be to desired and not to be avoided. a mystery not contrary to reason, for it implies that the world, and the course of human history, have meaning.
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I like to discover new things.
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Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.
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One rose says more than the dozen.
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The Enlightenment, the Age of Reason, is seen as the beginning of modern depravity.
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'All in With Laila Ali' is educational, inspirational, compelling programming profiling individuals that have reached for the sky, pushed themselves to the limit and did things that you would think were impossible.
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Exposing your ignorance is how you get somebody to embrace you.
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People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
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I still have the dress I wore on the first date with my husband, which was more than 66 years ago. I still have it, and it still fits.
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The biggest critics of my books are people who never read them.
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I prayed every day of my life, and that was instilled in me as a kid, and as I've gotten older, that's just matured in me.
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You can crush any woman by suggesting that she's fat, not even saying the word 'fat' but just suggesting she's fat.
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President Bush's emergency declaration for the State of Texas is great news for the people and communities that have experienced the devastating wildfires firsthand. Already, communities have rallied to help neighbors in need.
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Truthfully, I'm pretty stuck in the '80s.
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Health care should be affordable for everyone.
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Anything I sing is supposed to be genuine. It's not supposed to be make-believe or I'm making something for the crowd to jump or to hold up their hands.
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Anyone who loves football can also be involved in music; the two aren't mutually exclusive.
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We should not blur the lines between legal and illegal immigrants. Millions of people around the world have gone through the process to come here legally and they followed the rules that required them to pay a fee, learn English, and learn about American history and government.
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I have only hated men at those moments when I realized that I was doing all the giving and they the taking. At least when I was a prostitute, it was all honest and upfront.
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When historians get to write the truth about this completely unnecessary referendum Brexit they won't say it was a vote demanded by the British people to decide their national destiny. They will say it was the final battle in a decades-long Tory Civil War, at the heart of which was a fight to the death between two Old Etonians, David Cameron and Boris Johnson, for the hollow crown. A sort of Eton Wall Game. Where the poorest are put up against the wall and shot.
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I have these new policies toward my life, like 'I will not accelerate when I see the yellow light.'
