Gabriela Mistral Quotes
You shall create beauty not to excite the senses but to give sustenance to the soul.
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My husband and I click wedding rings sometimes and say, 'By the power of the Castle of Greyskull!'
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I wish I'd gone to music school or just started playing in bands sooner.
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The 100m taught me a lot and it's given me confidence.
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Piecemeal social engineering resembles physical engineering in regarding the ends as beyond the province of technology.
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I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes.
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I don't do fake. That's the first thing you should know about me. I'm not one to put on airs or change my demeanor depending on where I am or who I am talking to.
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To stimulate wildly weak and untrained minds is to play with mighty fires.
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The first thing I went out for was 'The Sopranos' and I got it, so that's how it happened. I hate to say it like that because I wait for calls now.
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Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
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I feel privileged that I've been able to get anywhere, with my quote-unquote limited mainstream appeal, given my race and subject matter. Of course, I always have my masters to fall back on.
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Real Texans don't want any woman to die of cancer because she can't get decent health care or medical advice. Real Texans don't want any woman to lose control of her life because she can't get birth control.
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Being a pop star is something I don't think I'm very good at. I'm worried it's making me too paranoid, because all of a sudden, life has become this constant assessment. When you put something out there and people get to hear it, then those people react to it, socially, culturally.
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Let's overwhelm the Castro regime with iPhones, iPads, American cars and American ingenuity.
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Most people who get in trouble in politics usually get in trouble because they're disconnected from the people they serve, and I don't think anybody in Tennessee, even people who won't vote for me, would accuse me of that.
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I totally respond to complex characters, and I'm not interested in anything too simple.
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People are going to get older and young guys are going to come in and race and get more competitive.
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There is no absolute point of view from which real and ideal can be finally separated and labelled.
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It's good to have a title that's not just one word. If you're gonna title it, you might as well try and say something.
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I'll try anything. I'll do anything. I'll explore. Try different takes.
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The idea of writer as sage is pretty much dead today. I would certainly feel very uncomfortable in the role.
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Often the raw ideas like ‘Relax’ and ‘Rage Hard’ - are the best. ‘Rage Hard’ just happened. There was little conscious effort.
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Everyday, everywhere our children spread their dreams beneath our feet and we should tread softly.
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The body that we tend to is only temporary, while the soul that we neglect is # eternal .
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You shall create beauty not to excite the senses but to give sustenance to the soul.
