Gabriela Mistral Quotes
Speech is our second possession, after the soul-and perhaps we have no other possession in this world.
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If I categorized home runs that I've seen, without a doubt the monumental one is Henry's... but I've seen a lot of classic, great home runs. Gibson's was probably the most theatrical home run I've ever seen.
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My brothers and I would sit out on the park bench and harmonize.
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I want a natural burial. Just straight into the ground in a shroud.
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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 never sell a book. I sell myself. And the way to sell yourself is to be an instrument of love.
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Even with my wife, I find sharing soup is hard.
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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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The goal in life is to be solid, whereas the way that life works is totally fluid, so you can never actually achieve that goal.
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When I had no money, I would find out which friend had work and money at that point in time and would go and stay with him for a week. All of us theatre guys did that.
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Barberries, or zereshk, are tiny dried red fruit with a tremendously sharp flavour. They come from Iran, where they're used to add freshness to rice and chicken dishes.
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I have no sense of direction at all. Thank the Lord for my TomTom, otherwise I'd spend my whole life lost.
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I've discovered that the standard all-American dream of fame and fortune is not success for me. Success for me is simply the joy of working - doing good work - and then bringing that joy home to my family. But if what I do in my work doesn't enrich my life with my family, I'm doing the wrong thing.
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Anytime that I've felt uninspired, I don't force myself to sit down and write. I only do it when I feel the impulse.
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To stimulate wildly weak and untrained minds is to play with mighty fires.
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I was born in England, but then I lived in Calgary, Saudi Arabia, Cyprus, India, Vancouver, London, Toronto, and now L.A.
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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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Social conditions that spur large numbers of people into action are ignored in favor of a Hollywood version of history focusing on one conquering hero. Since a movement for social change is embodied in its leader, death of the leader means death of the movement.
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I have a significant other and a large, immediate family. No children, thank goodness. And I have a 13-year-old kitty.
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It’s much easier to give up, than to put a Fight, but fighters are only people that win.
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He walked into a room and everything stopped. Elvis was just so physically beautiful that even if he didn't have any talent... just his face, just his presence. And he was funny, charming, and complicated, but he didn't wear it on his sleeve. You didn't see that he was complicated. You saw great needs.
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For a poet is a light and winged thing, and holy, and never able to compose until he has become inspired, and is beside himself, and reason is no longer in him.
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Speech is our second possession, after the soul-and perhaps we have no other possession in this world.
