Ella Maillart Quotes
I had to live in the desert before I could understand the full value of grass in a green ditch.
Quotes to Explore
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I liberate minds with my music. That's more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.
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I am very close to my brother Ramesh Babu. When my father was away for shootings, my brother would take care of me, and I am very close to him, and yes, Dad's always special.
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In our Western culture, although death has come out of the closet, it is still not openly experienced or discussed. Allowing dying to be so intensely present enriches both the preciousness of each moment and our detachment from it.
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My mother was against me being an artist. She just wanted me to marry a rich man.
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I let characters be human and flawed and relatable. When we do things that aren't that great, we can understand it.
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Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.
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Without this spirit, Modernist architecture cannot fully exist. Since there is often a mismatch between the logic and the spirit of Modernism, I use architecture to reconcile the two.
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On what can we now place our hopes of solving the many riddles which still exist as to the origin and composition of cosmic rays? It must be emphasized here above all that to attain really decisive progress greater funds must be made available.
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A lot of artists don't like the sound of their voice. They're put off by it.
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The 24% unemployment reached at the depths of the Great Depression was no picnic.
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The first time I walked into the Olympic athlete village seeing the Visa ATM machine with my picture on it and the Chinese characters saying 'Destiny.' For some reason, it just boosted my confidence and it was before I had even worked out or had my first training or competed.
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I will fight 'GGG,' and I will beat 'GGG,' but I will not be forced into the ring by artificial deadlines.
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I suppose that every one of us hopes secretly for immortality; to leave, I mean, a name behind him which will live forever in this world, whatever he may be doing, himself, in the next.
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I only like two kinds of men, domestic and imported.
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Education is the gateway to the American Dream. But today our immigration laws make higher education - a virtual requirement for financial security - out of reach for more than one million undocumented students.
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A lot of my emotional issues come from dealing with the opposite sex. I've come to terms with the fact that I'll be retired before I can finally enter into a healthy relationship.
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Sometimes one succeeds, sometimes one fails.
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And I like to convey my feelings, my emotions, my experience, the information I have to public use, public opinion.
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I've woven them a garment that's prepared out of poor words, those that I overheard, and will hold fast to every word and glance all of my days, even in new mischance, and if a gag should bind my tortured mouth, through which a hundred million people shout, then let them pray for me, as I do pray for them, this eve of my remembrance day.
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I'm really a singer, so I love songs and I love singing. I like rap music, but I didn't grow up freestyling.
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To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.
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Either be hot or cold. If you are lukewarm, the Lord will spew you forth from His mouth.
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I had to live in the desert before I could understand the full value of grass in a green ditch.
