Etel Adnan Quotes
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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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When I was in school, there was no such thing as girls' athletics.
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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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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 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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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've always had, like, from the age of about 11, I've had such an intolerance for bad behaviour of actors that I don't think I was ever going to be that person.
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I could care less about what people think. I'm a Devil Without A Cause.
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As Taiwan's friend and ally, I believe it is important for the United States to monitor the situation in the Taiwan Strait very carefully to help ensure Taiwan is not forced into a position which would endanger its freedom or its democracy.
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People like to imagine that because all our mechanical equipment moves so much faster, that we are thinking faster, too.
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I'm not running around as a continual ray of sunshine. It's just I don't believe in wasting time feeling sorry for myself. Get over it.
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My mother named me after her favorite actor, Joel McCrea, and dressed and presented me as her avatar. I'm sure she wanted to be a performer, but when that was impossible, I was her next best shot.
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My plan is to govern as long as I can.
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I love physical comedy. I adore comedy of any kind.
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American people have the ability to laugh at themselves. It is one of the things that makes this country the great country that it is.
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A cockroach likely has no less brainpower than a butterfly, but we're quicker to deny it consciousness because it's a species we dislike.
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Mountain climbing was one of Mother's favorite occupations, but she never succeeded in inculcating this passion in any of us.
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The books I'm writing are houses that I build for myself.
Etel Adnan
