Clarissa Pinkola Estes Quotes
People used to grow up in small communities where folk wisdom was passed down. But we don't live there anymore. We can't go next door to your aunt and ask her for the answers.
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I would love to be in 'Dancing With the Stars.'
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There was just a lot of comedy on the TV in the house, and my parents are both very funny.
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When I was in college, I studied business because I thought I wanted to be a director and producer.
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I just didn't expect an acoustic version of Rock'n'Roll All Nite.
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Clothes have to be simple and comfortable.
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One theme I ran into over and over while writing about the periodic table was the future of energy and the question of which element or elements will replace carbon as king.
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The use of solar energy has not been opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun.
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It is not from your own goods that you give to the beggar; it is a portion of his own that you are restoring to him. The Earth belongs to all. So you are paying back a debt and think you are making a gift to which you are not bound.
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To the soldier, luck is merely another word for skill.
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Values are more important than money.
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My kids are the future of the Mayweather family and of the Mayweather brand. I feel our family is stronger if we stay together.
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Still falls the rain - dark as the world of man, black as our loss - blind as the nineteen hundred and forty nails upon the Cross.
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I write to please me, and I've been very lucky. It's like playing baseball. You just keep swinging, and eventually you get a hit.
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I'm an emotional person.
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I want medical experiments on animals stopped. They don't do anything, and they don't work.
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First and foremost when you're doing comedy, you gotta be relevant and applicable to the times that you're living in. When you try and just do comedy about who is dating who and lifestyle jokes, it gets tiring after a while. It's hard to be funny in that realm.
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Only when I came to America did I think of myself as British.
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In Mexico we have a trick - add a crystal of salt to the kettle and the tea tastes better, almost English. But after four pots, your kettle's broken.
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Listen: I like my bikinis very small, and I also like, uh, nude-colored bikinis because people double-take - they think I'm naked on the beach.
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You have to have something vicious in you to be a creative writersomething old-adamish, incompatible to the "ordinary world.
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Single Record of the Year and New Vocalist were such a blessing to see, but when I saw that I was up for Album of the Year, that's when I started to be like, 'What in the world, this is crazy!' That one really got me in a pretty different way.
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To be a simple animal like my father, untroubled by consciousness, or conscience. To sleep soundly, at east with your certainties, men as expendable as beef. (p. 161)
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People used to grow up in small communities where folk wisdom was passed down. But we don't live there anymore. We can't go next door to your aunt and ask her for the answers.
