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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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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I maintain that when I finally retire from my career in music, I will go and live back in Wales - when I am an old person, if I live to be an old person. The water I miss, and the air, there's something different about it. And I miss the simple life.
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There can be no literary equivalent to truth.
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When you're not finding the fairway, it's hard to be consistent. [Right now] I'm comfortable and I'm not so comfortable, if that makes sense.
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I used to swallow people's energies, and then I learned, as I got older, that I'm too sensitive, and I had to stop doing that. Now I don't take as much in.
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We have worked hard together as a team to forge an agreement that is good for Delta and all of its constituents.
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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.
