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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Defeating racism, tribalism, intolerance and all forms of discrimination will liberate us all, victim and perpetrator alike.
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Hip hop classes and ballet are what I've been keeping up with, and of course my usual abdominal workout, which consists of 500 sit-ups a session. Or I take a 30-minute abs class at my gym. But dance classes are a full-body cardio workout, which always brings me success and keeps me feeling great.
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Deja vu, tell you what I'm gonna do, when they reminisce over you, my God.
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I have a vast curiosity about our universe, our origins, and its probable future.
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You can be romantically interested in someone and love them and still, I think, be really interested in things and a certain lifestyle that person might provide.
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We were taught to think that Paris was the center of the universe.
Etel Adnan
