Etel Adnan Quotes
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The utterly fallacious idea at the heart of the pro-war argument is that it is the duty of the anti-war argument to provide an alternative to war. The onus is on them to explain just cause.
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You can be an Olympic champion in 9.5 secs, but to be the greatest, there's more to it. It takes a bit of forethought and a lot of mental application.
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Our mission is to help founders and anyone or anything that helps founders helps us with our mission.
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When I was in school, there was no such thing as girls' athletics.
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The White House should always be a friend to American freedom.
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Before mobile phones, I used to call my parents from a phone box and reverse the charges.
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We have ministers who are incapable of doing what has been ordered from above because there is no follow up, because there are no consequences. If you are poor man and you steal, your hand is cut off after three offences. But if you are a rich man, nobody will say anything to you.
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I am a Brazilian before I am an architect. I cannot separate the two.
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Once you begin being naughty, it is easier to go and on and on, and sooner or later something dreadful happens.
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I think a good dollop of sadness is quite a useful thing in comedy sometimes. I think if everyone's happy all the time, it's a bit dull. It's like salt and caramel - you wouldn't imagine they would go well together, but they do.
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I like being outside and working with the elements. The elemental aspects of it. The physicality of it.
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The IFP is here to put into practice what we preach.
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If a woman is super-successful, she is called a psychopath.
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A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds; it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change.
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La tierra tiene lo que tú levantas de la tierra. Nada más tiene.
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It's about ladies, as usual. I'm telling the ladies I got the right temperature to keep them warm.
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Rilo Kiley was a rock band, so I wanted my solo records to feel different.
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I think I could drink my own blood. Is that weird?
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I could have kept writing 'Irish' novels such as Birchwood and probably had a good deal more success than I did, especially on this side of the Atlantic. But you have to try to do many things. You have to try to do things that you actually think you're incapable of.
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Weirdly, my nickname was Lady. I didn't get Stretch, or Stilts, or Spider Legs - I got Lady. I guess I was always a bit ladylike.
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Write when drunk. Edit when sober. Marketing is the hangover.
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The books I'm writing are houses that I build for myself.
Etel Adnan
