Laura Esquivel Quotes
I am always interested in that relationship between outer reality and inner desire, and I think it is important to pay attention to the inner voice because it is the only way to discover your mission in life and the only way to develop the strength to break with whatever familial or cultural norms are preventing you from fulfilling your destiny.
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Lobbying is a legitimate profession... Many congressional spouses act as lobbyists.
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If you look at the scientists who really make a difference, they think boldly. They're not afraid to question what they see.
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In terms of Rogers, I can't comment on how other fighters in the UFC would fare with Brett Rogers because that's just speculation.
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Bigotry toward any faith community cannot have any place in civilized society anywhere in the world.
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I don't ever try to make a song better than my last song. I just try to make it different from my last one.
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
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I eat a cheeseburger with French fries almost every day.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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No one ought to be under any illusion that Cheney privately thinks himself a failure.
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Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy.
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I thought I'd have a career playing women in the vein of Ruth Gordon, and we've seen that type almost disappear.
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Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.
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The truth, it is said, is rarely pure or simple, yet genetics can at times seem seductively transparent.
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Partly because the town is just finicky, there are strange Catch 22 clauses in the consciousness of this community and one of them was that you, I found out, you can't do a comedy unless you've just done a comedy.
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I live in a bus and go from place to place and sometimes feel very detached from what's going on.
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I'm not graceful.
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I prayed every day of my life, and that was instilled in me as a kid, and as I've gotten older, that's just matured in me.
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For me, the love really flowed when I found out the baby was a boy. That's when I could finally bond, once I knew 'it' was a him.
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All the soarings of my mind begin in my blood.
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When I was thirteen I basically asked my mother if it was possible for this to end, that I'd had enough of it. And I truly had had enough. And that was right about the time that we got a call for a movie interview.
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Simply put, if we can reduce the risk while increasing protection during the course of a young person's life, we can prevent problems and promote the healthy development of our children, our families, our economy, and the institutions we hold dear.
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The world is nothing but a great desire to live and a great dissatisfaction with living.
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Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable.
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I am always interested in that relationship between outer reality and inner desire, and I think it is important to pay attention to the inner voice because it is the only way to discover your mission in life and the only way to develop the strength to break with whatever familial or cultural norms are preventing you from fulfilling your destiny.
