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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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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If I had taken a doctoral degree, it would have stifled any writing capacity.
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For me, surfing is as close a connection I can have with Mother Nature. To surf, you're riding a pulse of energy from Mother Nature. And it's strong. It's real. It's there. And you're dancing with that. You're connecting with that. You're might be the only person in the history of the universe that connects with that particular pulse of energy.
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I think we need to treat everybody with dignity.
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I think if I'd ever had any skeletons in the closet, they'd have been out a long time ago.
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Valentino made my day suit for the wedding of Paloma Picasso in Paris.
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The universe is full of men going through the same motions in the same surroundings, but carrying within themselves, and projecting around them, universes as mutually remote as the constellations.
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We were taught to think that Paris was the center of the universe.
Etel Adnan
