Louise Erdrich Quotes
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Since I was a child, I have had this feeling that the most important work I'd do would be with my family.
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Of course, I loved the Spice Girls. I loved Geri and Baby, but who liked Posh Spice? They said I looked like her, and I said: 'That's not cool, that's really mean.'
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I ask myself what I can do to become like Messi and Ronaldo and score 50 or 60 goals in a season.
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Give us enough but with a sparing hand.
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The man of the future may, and even must, do things impossible in the past and acquire new motor variations not given by heredity.
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But when I was a teenager, the idea of spending the rest of my life in a factory was real depressing. So the idea that I could become a musician opened up some possibilities I didn't see otherwise.
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On the consumer level, the products developed by entrepreneurs help to provide more and better options that make life easier and more enjoyable in the everyday lives of the public.
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I think the pursuit of happiness is the pursuit of reality because illusion never leaves us ultimately happy.
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I do a lot of research on the placebo effect, not just in depression but in irritable bowel syndrome, pain, arthritis of the knee, migraine, asthma.
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I miss animation very passionately. Not continuously, but every once in a while I would die to do another film.
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There's a hustling, but also a self-centred vibe you can get from people in Delhi.
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I love sending stuff to Usher because it always sounds better than me.
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I'd sometimes do 50, 60 takes of song.
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One can make no better investment than the cultivation of a taste for the beautiful, for it will bring rainbow hues and enduring joys to the whole life. It will not only greatly increase one's capacity for happiness, but also one's efficiency.
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As the war on terror continues, Americans must honor the brave men and women who gave their lives for the protection of this nation and the hope of peace.
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Just a reminder, what other people think of you is none of your business.1.
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'What, concretely, is Enlightenment?' 'Seeing Reality as it is,' said the Master. 'Doesn't everyone see Reality as it is?' 'Oh, no! Most people see it as they believe it is.' 'What's the difference?' 'The difference between thinking you are drowning in a stormy sea and knowing you cannot drown because there isn't any water in sight for miles around.'
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Was that, then, the way we do things? 'Not knowing'- was that the way the most profound things happened? ... Was the secret of never escaping from the greater life the secret of living like a sleepwalker?
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Pride is an established conviction of one’s own paramount worth in some particular respect, while vanity is the desire of rousing such a conviction in others, and it is generally accompanied by the secret hope of ultimately coming to the same conviction oneself. Pride works from within; it is the direct appreciation of oneself. Vanity is the desire to arrive at this appreciation indirectly, from without.
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Taking a principled and consistent stance over Iraq has attracted much criticism from our detractors and opponents.
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'Snow White' is an old fairy tale, so obviously the idea of vanity and obsession with youth is long-standing. With today's science, people have become crazy with trying to move their face around. It's bizarre.
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The Dionysian is no picnic.
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I'd like to sit down with Hillary Clinton onstage and ask her about Glass Steagall and all the big banks and her own campaign contributions.
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I have to write. I have to be an artist.
