Estelle Quotes
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Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.
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To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.
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If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help... Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you've got a business - you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen.
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In the midst of the pain and panic of the Great Depression, as many as 2 million people of Mexican descent were expelled from the United States.
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Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why science has succeeded where magic failed: because it has looked for no spell to cast over nature.
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The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts, but learning how to make facts live.
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If we don't change our culture, the politics is going to migrate more and more to statism.
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Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
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I was planning on my future as a homeless person. I had a really good spot picked out.
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The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do more, and you are not yet decrepit enough to turn them down.
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My brain's gone, my soul's worn and my spirit is torn The rest of my body's still bein operated on.
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The 'Terror' of the French Revolution lasted for ten years. The terror that preceded and led to it lasted for a thousand years.
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All I do is track a profane route to something (I hope) profound. Like swimming a river of shit for a kiss.
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The tadpole poet will never grow into anything bigger than a frog; not though in that stage of development he should puff and blow himself till he bursts with windy adulation at the heels of the laureled ox.
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When my grandfather was born, there was no healthcare. There were no airplanes. There were no boats. There were no trains. There were no communications. No Internet. No widespread knowledge. It will be a completely different world but a much better place in a hundred years.
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Trump's election could be a blessing in disguise. This is the opportunity for America to correct itself.
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By 2022, China is expected to cede the dubious distinction of being the world's most populous nation to India, according to the population division of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs.
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Those who sit at the feast will continue to enjoy themselves even though the veil that separates them from the world of toiling reality below has been lifted by mass revolts and critics.
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'Neither this world, nor the next, nor happiness are for the being abandoned to doubt.' - This point in the Gita is my death sentence.
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Often you see people on the red carpet with tight up-dos, but that makes me feel stiff.
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People are always asking me to do Shakespeare - at home, at colleges, on film locations, in restaurants. It's like playing a piece of music, getting all the notes. It's great therapy.
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I think the one group I am trying to appeal to is the world. That would be big enough.