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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With me, satisfaction is always very fleeting with our work. I always get a little restless with it.
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They're talking about banning cigarette smoking now in any place that's used by ten or more people in a week, which, I guess, means that Madonna can't even smoke in bed.
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There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.
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There are three things to beware of through life: when a man is young, let him beware of his appetites; when he is middle-aged, of his passions; and when old, of covetousness, especially.
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Whether we like it or not, we have all been born into this world as part of one great human family. Rich or poor, educated or uneducated, belonging to one nation or another, to one religion or another, adhering to this ideology or that, ultimately each of is just a human being like everyone else. We all desire happiness and do not want suffering.
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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.
