Alma Luz Villanueva Quotes

A trance healer in Bali, an eagle woman, asked me, 'What is freedom, madam?' She had a chained eagle, her ally in healing, and it broke my heart, those huge, folded wings. So I asked her why the eagle couldn't fly free, why it was chained. And then her eagle eyes dug into mine, and she asked, 'What is freedom, madam?

Alma Luz Villanueva

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• Humor disarms people. It opens them up to starting a dialogue about things they wouldn't normally talk about. I don't understand how people who don't have a sense of humor get through life.

  

  Zach Anner
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• The American tradition of Washington and Hamilton and Madison and Lincoln and TR and Pat Buchanan is of economic nationalism - making America an independent, self-sufficient, sovereign forever country that's able to stand on its own feet.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Country
  • American
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• I'm a decent tennis player. Good backhand.

  

  Idina Menzel
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• Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.

  

  Samuel Johnson
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• I want to tour, everywhere I can, all of the world.

  

  Kat Edmonson
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• You are not a problem that needs solving.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
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• I really haven't liked the commercialization of mountaineering, particularly of Mt. Everest. By paying $65,000, you can be conducted to the summit by a couple of good guides.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • Good
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• It was kind of exciting being on the radio. Not everybody was on the radio.

  

  Sam Donaldson
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• I'm quite good at taking in information so I voraciously inhale Wikipedia - which may have some things wrong in it, but I think is generally more information than we had before. Last tour we didn't have Wikipedia. And then Discovery Channel and History Channel. I can take it in and retain what I think are the most important facts.

  

  Eddie Izzard
  • Good
  • Important
  • May

• A lovely nook of forest scenery, or a grand rock, like a beautiful woman, depends for much of its attractiveness upon the attendance sense of freedom from whatever is low; upon a sense of purity and of romance.

  

  P. T. Barnum
  • Beautiful
  • Freedom
  • Rock

• Not everyone is lucky enough to be given space and trust.

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • Space
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• Obviously, you need talent to do well in your sport, but I think hard work goes a long way. You need to be lucky within the sport too, though. In badminton, you can benefit from good draws and people getting injured.

  

  Rajiv Ouseph
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• It's like, boom! – I've got a girlfriend. It turned out to be a good thing because it made me a rapper.

  

  Young Thug
  • Good
  • Made
  • Thing

• I don't like to leave anything unfinished on my desk before I travel.

  

  Vijay Mallya
  • Travel
  • Leave
  • Desk

• I just think of everything I do and how happy it will make me to do it. I don't like having my photograph taken, for instance, so I don't do that often.

  

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  • Happy
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• There aren't enough good roles for strong women. I wish we had more female writers. Most of the female characters you see in films today are the 'poor heartbroken girl.'

  

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• Oh my soul, be prepared for the coming of the Stranger. Be prepared for him who knows how to ask questions.

  

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• Islam is not part of the problem in combating violent extremism; it is an important part of promoting peace.

  

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• When our Founding Fathers wrote the historic words 'all men are created equal,' they probably didn't have people like me in mind.

  

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  • Mind
  • Created
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• There's a freedom to being young that is harder to come by as time goes on.

  

  Dave Matthews Dave Matthews Band
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• As my mother once said: The boys throw stones at the frogs in jest.But the frogs die in earnest.

  

  Joanna Russ
  • Mother
  • Die

• Consider the case of a person who holds a view with probability 1. Then coherence says that it is no use having a debate with them because nothing will change their mind.

  

  Dennis Lindley
  • Change
  • Consider
  • Debate

• As you build your career, you know where you want to go. I'm definitely moving towards films. That's definitely a goal. I'm definitely going to put it out there.

  

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  • Films
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• A trance healer in Bali, an eagle woman, asked me, 'What is freedom, madam?' She had a chained eagle, her ally in healing, and it broke my heart, those huge, folded wings. So I asked her why the eagle couldn't fly free, why it was chained. And then her eagle eyes dug into mine, and she asked, 'What is freedom, madam?

  

  Alma Luz Villanueva
  • Freedom
  • Asked
  • Eagle