Clarissa Pinkola Estes Quotes
Asking the proper questions is the central action of transformation. Questions are the key that causes the secret doors of the psyche to swing open.
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Some people ask me, Do they put aging makeup on you? It's just this very nice street makeup.
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I have three boys, so I live in a household full of testosterone.
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One thing you know, if you've been in technology a while, you're only as good as the last thing you did. No one wants an original iPod. No one wants an iPhone 3GS.
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Year 2008 wiped out $19.2 trillion in US income... What if the money was spent on the Midwest of the United States?
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In England especially, I've found that if you bring up King Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson at a dinner party or a social gathering, it's like throwing a Molotov cocktail into the room.
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Literally, when I go to the vocal coach, I'm like, 'You are teaching me nothing.' You know?
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Some people think I'm a total moron and I would hope most people think I'm very good at what I do.
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Harry Potter to me is a bore. His talent arrives as a gift; he's chosen. Who can identify with that? But Hermione - she's working harder than anyone, she's half outsider, right? Half Muggle. She shouldn't be there at all. It's so unfair that Harry's the star of the books, given how hard she worked to get her powers.
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'Transformers' was important and defining for me because it taught me about what kinds of movies I want to make and the kind of actor I want to be, and I have a long way to go before I become that actor.
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Judges who take the law into their own hands, who make up constitutional 'rights' in order to strike down laws they oppose, undermine the people's right to have their values shape public policy and define the culture.
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Typically, when you sell your story rights to a movie production company, they can do whatever they want with it. The writer is typically not involved anymore.
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Having competed themselves, my father and my uncle are very passionate about motorsport, so I inherited it from them.
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When people are in the midst of really heavy stuff and still have a sense of humor, I admire that.
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A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both.
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I can't make up my mind whether I want to dance like Josef Brown or dance with Josef Brown.
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Brokenness is the operative issue of our time - broken souls, broken hearts, broken places.
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I'd like there to be consistently more women's storylines going on at the same time.
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Some people think that welfare reform should have hurt Bill Clinton with black voters.
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There has never in the history of the civilized world been a cohort of kids that is so little affected by adult guidance and so attuned to a peer world. We have removed grown-up wisdom and allowed them to drift into a self-constructed, highly relativistic world of friendship and peers.
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For nothing ought to be posited without a reason given, unless it is self-evident (literally, known through itself) or known by experience or proved by the authority of Sacred Scripture.
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I'm troubled by what I see as a sort of rooting for Trump's failure, because that is rooting for our own failure.
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I still fall asleep with the TV on, because I'm used to falling asleep with people yelling 'Action!' and 'Cut!'
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Asking the proper questions is the central action of transformation. Questions are the key that causes the secret doors of the psyche to swing open.
