Estelle Quotes
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My mom used to tell me when I was little, 'When it rains, it's God's manifestation - a big day's waiting to happen.'
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As a free-speech advocate, I believe that adults should have access to any material they want. As a parent, and a community member, I think people should be able to protect their homes from imagery - much of it violent - that is, I feel, a form of child abuse when adult society inflicts it upon children.
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I loved London. In the 1970s... it was very exciting, really wild.
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We pay taxes, and we help the city coffers.
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If there's one thing I've learnt, it's that I don't think a man ever looks better than when he's in a suit. So I'm wearing them increasingly, not in my personal life, but in my professional life, and I'm really enjoying it.
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Chicago is one city. We shall work as one people for our common good and our common goals.
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L.A. makes you feel ugly.
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I can remember loving to recruit. I knew I was going to do my best. But traveling and recruiting doesn't appeal to me any more. It's not as much fun as it used to be.
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In 1993, when I landed in Zimbabwe, there were just 10 psychiatrists in that country of 10 million people. Nine of the 10 were foreigners who spoke no regional language.
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I was raised with those principals and values and ethics that came out of the men and women that served. But this generation doesn't quite know; they haven't been tested.
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Everybody around the world wants to send their kids to our universities. But nobody wants to send their kids here to public school.
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Even before I competed in the Olympics, I always wanted to write a book.
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NBA games are exciting to watch and have global appeal. They are very popular in China. I do watch NBA games on television when I have time.
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I got through college.
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I'm never interested in writing a kind of neutral, universal novel that could be set anywhere. To me, the novel is a local thing.
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Frugality is founded on the principal that all riches have limits.
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Intellectuals would be much more accepted now than in the '40s.
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Whatever storytelling muscles you've developed as a documentary filmmaker will be extremely helpful as a narrative filmmaker.
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The work of a psychotherapist involves being empathic and insightful with one's patients without getting too lost in their painful stories to be helpful.
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I have a very connected history with Bilal. I heard his demo years ago. I heard all of the magic instantly. He's a master at interpretation of song.
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Growing up in Ireland, there never seemed to be the notion that children should be seen and not heard. We all looked forward to mealtimes when we'd sit around the table and talk about our days. Storytelling and long, rambling conversations were considered good things.
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I'm not well versed on the verbiage of the internet.
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Holy cow!
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When I was growing up, hip-hop was still a pretty specialised thing.
