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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If I had taken a doctoral degree, it would have stifled any writing capacity.
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People are all vulnerable in so many different ways. We go into survival mode a lot of times.
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I believe the answers to most problems that confront us around the world can and should be approached by engaging both friend and foe in dialogue. No, I don't naively think that dialogue always works, but I believe we should avoid the rigidity of saying that dialogue never works.
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The primary difference that I have found between the system of education in India and other countries, particularly the U.S., is that they focus on problem solving and relating theories to reality around them. These two things are lacking in the education system in India.
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Einstein said, if everything exists as a substance of qualities, and qualities exist only in mind, then all is mind.
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We were taught to think that Paris was the center of the universe.
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