Etel Adnan Quotes
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I finally moved out of my parent's house. It was only fair to let my sister have her own room.
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Watch your finances like a hawk.
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Creating things sometimes is difficult.
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When it comes to memories of that iconic type, memories that are burned into you, I have maybe ten or so from my childhood. I'm a bad rememberer of situations. I forget almost everything as soon as it happens.
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Entrenched scriptural literalism is, in my opinion, completely out of touch with reality.
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You know, I was a community activist, so I'm used to standing out in front of an elected official's office and protesting.
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There are no plans that always work in life. For me, the secret to happiness is being positive and looking at the brighter side of my life.
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To have success in your professional life is not so hard. To succeed as a man is more difficult.
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I knew very early on that I wasn't Brad Pitt.
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Health food makes me sick.
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Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.
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To dissociate politicians from capitalists is slightly disingenuous, to put it mildly. U.S. lawmakers are competitive and auction themselves to the highest bidder via the lobby system.
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When I was single, I was down to $100 of power a year.
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The American landscape has no foreground and the American mind no background.
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Without a doubt, priority No. 1 is always my family. Whether it's my children or my husband or even my girlfriends who are also my family, I put them first no matter what. And it makes it easy to then juggle everything else because it's never a question.
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In some families, parents don't read or don't have the money to spend on books.
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I talk in subjects and verbs, and sort of wind around in concentric circles until I get far enough away from the beginning so that I can call it the end, and it ends.
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Even as a kid, I was a businessman. I figured out that if you plucked all the berries off my neighbor's tree and smashed them up, they made a Nickelodeon Gak-type consistency. I sold them to all the neighborhood kids and made stacks of quarters. Of course, the berries were poisonous, and I got in all types of trouble.
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What I really try to do is photograph people at rest, in a state of serenity.
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The Law of God reaches into every area of life, and it brings about incredible blessing and incredible freedom.
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In Holland, we have a saying: 'A knife cuts on two sides.' With the rubber duck, I'm trying to show people what they haven't been seeing in their public space. When the rubber duck is there and when it's gone, you know.
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I'm a person who's always been interested in politics and thought it was a very noble occupation.
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Considering retirement is like skirting with the reality of what's to come, and I think that's why so many athletes decide to do more introspection at that point.
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We were taught to think that Paris was the center of the universe.
Etel Adnan
