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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My manager's biggest dream is for me to be on Letterman. She says, 'Oh, Maggie, will you promise me you'll be on 'Letterman?' What can I say? I just tell her I can't promise, but I'll try my best.
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In TV, you're always confused because you legitimately don't know what you're doing the next week.
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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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It may not always be easy, convenient, or politically correct to stand for truth and right, but it is the right thing to do. Always.
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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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I think what it really is, is that I date creative people. And I think that what intimidates them is not my purse; it's my mind.
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To me, success is making a positive difference through art - making art that affects the world and that changes the way people feel about themselves and the world.
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There are children playing in the streets who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago.
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They are not only idle who do nothing, but they are idle also who might be better employed.
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Though social eugenics was discredited long ago, we still often think of the genome in quasi-eugenic terms. When we read about the latest discovery of a link between a gene and a disease, we imagine that we've learned the cause of the disease, and we may even think we'll get a cure by fixing the gene.
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We were taught to think that Paris was the center of the universe.
Etel Adnan
