Estelle Quotes
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Sometimes, all the interviews, those are the toughest thing for me, but once you really start to do it a lot and start to get used to it, I can find some fun in those parts, too. Because playing golf is the easiest thing for me, and that's something I'm so used to; that's why it was always easy.
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I think the kind of unexpected I really love is when you open books and the actual way of writing is different and interesting. Like reading Virginia Woolf for the first time or Lawrence Durrell for the first time.
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The difference in the quality of medical care received by people with mental illness is one of the reasons why they live shorter lives than people without mental illness. Even in the best-resourced countries in the world, this life expectancy gap is as much as 20 years. In the developing countries of the world, this gap is even larger.
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My question about my art and my music has always been, 'Am I good, or am I good because?' I'm not the artist who wants to have the 'because' attached.
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Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.
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I thought Obama ran the best campaign I have ever known - disciplined, well organised, very, very good. I was very impressed.
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Press conferences aren't the best thing to do, but it's part of the job.
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A startup is literally just a series of unfortunate events where you failed, failed, failed, and failed until you succeed.
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I think that cancer is a life form that exists out there, and it exists in us. I think even the concept of healing is a spiritual principle that we have to really look at. I think the word itself is something we ought to get rid of, because it implies that there is illness - that there is something wrong.
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I just wish that people will be kinder to me when I pass away.
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Prestige is the shadow of money and power.
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It's better to waste money than time. You can always get more money.
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We should involve the whole world in the handling of this refugee crisis.
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You can never go more than three or four hours without having something to nibble on or eat - you have to graze all day long.
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A good system shortens the road to the goal.
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I feel I should be trying to complete my life, whatever 'completing a life' means.
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Every year is beautiful, and I try to appreciate each moment in my career, but 30 was definitely one of my best.
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Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.
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I had the lunchbox that cleared the cafeteria. I was very unpopular in the early grades. Because I hung out with my grandfather, I started to bring my lunchbox with sardine sandwiches and calamari that I would eat off my fingers like rings. I was also always reeking of garlic.
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As long as there are people in education making excuses for failure, cursing future generations with a culture of low expectations, denying children access to the best that has been thought and written, because Nemo and the Mister Men are more relevant, the battle needs to be joined.
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I've been to war, and it's not easy to kill. It's bloody and messy and totally horrifying, and the consequences are serious.
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The most important fact of this century is not that Earth is threatened in many ways, It is that for the first time in all of its history a decisive means of protecting the home planet exists. It is by using space.
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I want to look beyond the legends, to find the real story of Scotland. And it's every bit as thrilling.
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I come from a family of well-endowed booty women.
