Estela Portillo Trambley Quotes
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Waste Management was based in Chicago, but I lived in Ft. Lauderdale and for 10 years had to commute to work - catch the 5 P.M. Sunday flight to Chicago and the midnight return flight on Friday.
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Readers want to see, hear, feel, smell the action of your story, even if that action is just two people having a quiet conversation.
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It makes you vulnerable to win an award. It's nice to get the attention, but your neck is stuck out.
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I am very interested in Ayurvedic medicine and hope to explore it more someday. I only have a very superficial understanding of the whole thing right now. But learning what my body type is has shifted my whole self-care regime a bit, and I feel better because of it.
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My actual personality probably lies someplace between the two.
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I'm a woman of very few words, but lots of action.
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First, do enough training. Then believe in yourself and say: I can do it. Tomorrow is my day. And then say: the person in front of me, he is just a human being as well; he has two legs, I have two legs, that is all. That is mentally how you prepare.
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Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.
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Protein was the most valued ingredient 250 years ago: It was the rarest thing. Now the rarest thing we have is time: time to cook and time to eat.
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I have a couple of dozen books on my reader: ideal for a long trip or an afternoon waiting at the medical clinic. It's flexible.
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What we do today has nothing to do with capitalism or socialism. It is a crony type of system that transfers money to the coffers of bureaucrats.
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Never tire yourself more than necessary, even if you have to found a culture on the fatigue of your bones.
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We've been waiting 30 years to end the lunacy of nine demigods on the Supreme Court deciding every burning social issue of the day for us, loyal subjects in a judicial theocracy. We don't want someone who will decide those issues for us - but decide them 'our' way. If we did, a White House bureaucrat with good horse sense might be just the ticket.
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There are so many separate selves; no one who writes creatively hasn't felt that.
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What's really great about the Archie Comics as a whole is that everybody is relatable.
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I don't think politics has anything to do with left, right, or center. It has to do with trying to do right by people.
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The problem is not that the PC you need always costs more than you can afford. The problem is that whatever the price, it is still too much.
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I just want to make good music, and as long as I'm happy with it, the charting isn't that important to me. Although, the best feeling is having a song you're very happy with and also having it at Number One!
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If you can make a lot more of something, you can make it much more inexpensive.
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It is my meditation all the day, and more than my meat and drink, to know how I shall make the Saints of God comprehend the visions that roll like an overflowing surge before my mind.
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Detachment is a flaw, not a virtue - don’t you realize that?
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Free people make the only milieu possible in society for the full gift of one's self to church, state, and family. Free people enjoy and sustain and feel with one another because they live for one another. The paths of life are intermingled lives.
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The smell of rain is rich with life.
