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?
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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.
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I'm a decent tennis player. Good backhand.
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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.
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I want to tour, everywhere I can, all of the world.
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You are not a problem that needs solving.
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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.
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It was kind of exciting being on the radio. Not everybody was on the radio.
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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.
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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.
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Not everyone is lucky enough to be given space and trust.
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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.
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It's like, boom! – I've got a girlfriend. It turned out to be a good thing because it made me a rapper.
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I don't like to leave anything unfinished on my desk before I travel.
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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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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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Restaurants get you in with food to sell you liquor; religions get you in with belief to sell you rules.
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It is only in the lonely emergencies of life that our creed is tested: then routine maxims fail, and we fall back on our gods.
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The more people learn about the proposed Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, the worse it looks.
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I'm a mother, and my life is very full.
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Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing.
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The lovers of life, they are children at heart always in their wonder and delight, but they do not grab.
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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?
