Carmen Boullosa Quotes

I was an angel of the desert. In your arms I broke my wings.

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• When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions.

  

  W. Clement Stone
  • Control
  • Thoughts
  • Emotions

• The 24% unemployment reached at the depths of the Great Depression was no picnic.

  

  Barry Eichengreen
  • Great
  • Depression
  • Picnic

• In documentary films, you're a storyteller using found objects. You still have to have a story arc and all the elements that make a good story. It really helped me mature as a storyteller.

  

  Garth Stein
  • Good
  • Story
  • Elements

• I myself have already spent a third of my life in Germany, first in Cologne and then, since 1994, in Berlin.

  

  Olafur Eliasson
  • Life
  • Myself
  • My Life

• I have a high self-opinion - I don't need to hide that. I don't need to be self-deprecating.

  

  Adam Levine Maroon 5
  • High
  • Opinion
  • Need

• Men have as exaggerated an idea of their rights as women have of their wrongs.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • Men
  • Women
  • Rights

• Being uprooted from your own culture, provided you take with you the way of thinking and being that characterises the more integrated social culture from which you come, is not as disruptive to happiness and well-being as becoming part of a relatively fragmented culture.

  

  Iain McGilchrist
  • Thinking
  • Culture
  • Happiness

• I do endless chopping and preparing things. I really find that relaxing. I do a lot of thinking as I am chopping and cooking.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Thinking
  • Cooking
  • Relaxing

• Life is incredibly short, yet we're always told that change takes time. For a race of mortals, dicking around just isn't acceptable.

  

  Ted Rall
  • Life
  • Time

• God does not exist-religion in science is an absurdity, in practice an immorality and in men a disease.

  

  Benito Mussolini
  • God
  • Men
  • Science

• Men used to tell me how they used butter for sex, now they tell me how they’ve eliminated it from their diet.

  

  Edward St Aubyn
  • Men
  • Sex

• Creative directors can be egocentric, they say. I decide; they shout at people and harass. I don't want that.

  

  Marco Bizzarri
  • People

• Running for president is hard. But it's good preparation. Because being president is a lot harder.

  

  Mark McKinnon
  • Good
  • Running
  • Preparation

• With a book called 'Keeping Score,' I really did want to write a book about the Korean War, because I felt that it is the least understood war in the American cultural imagination. So I set out with the idea that Americans didn't know much about the Korean War and that I was going to try to fix a tiny bit of that.

  

  Linda Sue Park
  • Book
  • American
  • War

• I was in preschool and a girl actually kissed me on the cheek. I didn't know what to do. I didn't know what it meant, so I instantly grabbed her face and kissed her on the lips. And, then I got suspended.

  

  Jensen Ackles
  • Girl

• Love is the hardest habit to break, and the most difficult to satisfy.

  

  Drew Barrymore
  • Habit

• After three years in L.A., I began to dream of my glory days on the boards. But it's very difficult to make a living as a theater actor in New York, which is why I moved out here, and I always had an ambition to work in television. I am a great admirer of the format, and I think it's how we tell long stories.

  

  Luke Macfarlane
  • Work
  • Great
  • Long

• It's one thing to be talented, but the other thing is connections - with agents, with people; that's what makes a difference, and from the beginning, I've had wonderful representation.

  

  Elizabeth Wilson
  • People
  • Beginning

• Silicon Valley's involvement with Washington dates from one event, which was John Scully - who was the CEO of Apple - had dinner with President Clinton and Vice President Gore in 1993. And we're all going, like, 'What's going on? Why would we have dinner with the president?'

  

  Eric Schmidt
  • Why

• If you're playing a cop in a modern film, you don't have to walk with your spine straight up and bow before a fight. There's a lot of free form of expressing yourself as an actor.

  

  Donnie Yen
  • Up
  • Free

• I had these couple of hippie guy friends who were super broke and living in the attic of somebody's house and they were like, "We don't have any food, man." And so I decided to go to the grocery store and steal chicken pot pie. And I stuck it inside my clothes. I took a couple frozen chicken pot pies and stuck them inside my pants, and I got caught walking out of the store. And they took me in the back room, and - luckily, I was 14, but I had a fake ID saying I was 18, so they didn't call my parents.

  

  Cassandra Peterson
  • Friends
  • Broke
  • Hippie

• I wasn't very good with people either until recently ... Turns out I just wasn't very good with myself

  

  Carrie Fletcher
  • People
  • Good
  • Myself

• If people realized someone would be sorting through their trash, would they be more careful in what they throw away?

  

  Cam'ron
  • People
  • Careful
  • Sorting

• I was an angel of the desert. In your arms I broke my wings.

  

  Carmen Boullosa
  • Angel
  • Desert
  • Arms