Etel Adnan Quotes
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One of the greatest boons that can ever come to a human being is to be born on a farm and reared in the country. Self-reliance and grit are oftenest country-bred.
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All fashion brands are about looking good. Being Human is also about doing good. And you can do good by the simple act of slipping into a t-shirt or a pair of jeans.
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I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but with experiments, and demonstrations.
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I think actors have a choice of drawing attention to themselves or living on the outskirts.
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Everyone asks me why someone Turkish is making Greek yogurt. In Greece, it is not called 'Greek yogurt.' Everywhere in the world it is called 'strained yogurt.' But because it was introduced in this country by a Greek company, they called it 'Greek yogurt.'
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I've had a few semi-toxic relationships, but it's not what I look for when I'm seeing someone.
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I have three lovely, lovely kids that I am in love with and that's in love with me.
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The 19th century became the age of the museum. Objects were scrambled for, specimens seized, and friezes and antiques grasped.
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Her blue eyes sought the west afar,For lovers love the western star.
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We have to always look ahead enough moves to be well prepared, even for victory!
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Thanks, God, for honoring our best by giving us a miracle.
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Percibimos el vacío, llenándolo.
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I've been writing and making my own music for a long time.
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You know what, I'm a big, big fan of 'Heroes,' but the day they told me that the end of the world was coming, and that day didn't come, I stopped watching.
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I like a book. I like to read for four hours at a stretch. I think very few are the young people who are even capable of reading for four hours at a stretch, because it's such a bizarre thing for them to do. I am mourning this.
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No amount of gym time will make you feel beautiful if you don't feel it on the inside.
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I plan to open Mexico's energy sector to national and foreign private investment.
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I'm not involved on any social media; it's really not my style.
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It is time for Congress to save the Postal Service, not dismantle it.
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When house and land are gone and spent, then learning is most excellent.
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We lie in each other's arms eyes shut and fingers open and all the colors of the world pass through our bodies like strings of fire.
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When I drive to the lupins and see them all spread out as far as eye can reach in perfect beauty of colour and scent and bathed in the mild August sunshine, I feel I must send for somebody to come and look at them with me, and talk about them to me, and share in the pleasure; and when I run over the list of my friends and try to find one who would enjoy them, I am frightened once more at the solitariness in which we each of us live.
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A ready means of being cherished by the English is to adopt the simple expedient of living a long time. I have little doubt that if, say, Oscar Wilde had lived into his nineties, instead of dying in his forties, he would have been considered a benign, distinguished figure suitable to preside at a school prize-giving or to instruct and exhort scout masters at their jamborees. He might even have been knighted.
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Not seeing rivers is also another way of dying.
Etel Adnan
