Isabel Allende Quotes
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I'm not a Republican.
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I build community. However, I do it wearing a number of hats.
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Do not follow vain desires; for verily he who prospers is preserved from lust, greed and anger.
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You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind on, but what you can't keep your mind off.
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'Fargo' is one of my favorite movies.
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In Russia all tyrants believe poets to be their worst enemies.
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As the bill requires, any terror alert system must give people and organizations some indication about what steps they must take to improve their own security and assist in the Nation's security.
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There isn't much discussion of ruling class in America even in Boston, probably one of the most class-conscious cities in the country?
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It'd be crazy to say just because an artist is not successful that means he's not talented. I don't think anybody really believes that, but sometimes it feels that way.
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Even a beautiful piece of work can be overshadowed, destroyed, by something else.
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'Faith' and 'trust' are words that put the power in the hands of an outside force that we are meant to rely on - whether it is God or a person or the universe. Certainty puts the power back in our hands.
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Stealing things is a glorious occupations, particularly in the art world.
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I want to live my life naked, with all my little naked kids naked in the garden.
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Unfortunately we - and I'm speaking not for Latin America but for Mexico because that's where I come from - we still, I think, are a little bit macho. Not that we only live in a macho world, but we also think as a macho world; even the women, you know? The women in Mexico, because that's the way we were raised.
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That's what I loved about show business, no two days were alike. It's an exciting life.
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Opening up Atlantic and Arctic waters to drilling would lock the next generation into burning oil and gas in a way that only makes climate change that much worse, fueling ever rising seas, widening deserts, withering drought, blistering heat, raging storms, wildfires, floods and other hallmarks of climate chaos.
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I want to upset people, I want to make people think, I want to keep people interested.
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I believe the classified section of a newspaper - especially the 'Business Opportunities' column - can tell you more about your city 'business-wise' than any other publication.
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I've also gotten to play in front of a million people in Central Park when there was a grass roots movement calling for nuclear disarmament - it was about 1982 - they called it Peace Sunday.
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The man of prayer will be at peace with himself and with the whole world.
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I find it difficult to go to museums. I prefer houses.
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When the Christian doesn't find joy on account of his happenings, he can always find joy in spite of them.
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Peace requires everyone to be in the circle - wholeness, inclusion.
