Clarissa Pinkola Estes Quotes
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Every morning I wake up and thank God.
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I liberate minds with my music. That's more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.
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I want to stop transforming and just start being.
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All my life, the naysayers have told me that I can't win because I'm a progressive... because I'm a woman... even because I'm a lesbian.
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In the investment business, you must expect to be wrong.
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Culturally, the First World War is the war that stands in for other wars.
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It's very easy to have slogans and rhetoric that people will follow, but eventually the slogans fall away.
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Destiny is something not be to desired and not to be avoided. a mystery not contrary to reason, for it implies that the world, and the course of human history, have meaning.
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If I had a gun to my head and I had to choose between theater and film I'd choose theater.
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Even successful musicians have had periods where people say they suck and no one likes them, even after they've had periods of great success. So I think it's like you just gotta do you and try to stay motivated. Until, you know, you decide to stay home and make spaghetti all day.
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I'm the most optimistic guy about VR out there. I have crazy visions of what we'll be doing in the future.
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When I watch a movie for the first few times I'm usually thinking about where I was in a given scene, who was next to me, what we were doing etc. But after I've gotten through all of this, when I'm really watching the film itself, then I get moved.
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I'm not very technically minded. I mean, I don't know how to do e-mail on computers.
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I actually did not have a date to my prom. I ended up taking a friend.
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I always say: To be well dressed you must be well naked.
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It was around the summer of 1982 when the drug problem really impacted. It became a lifestyle rather than a recreation. When you start lying and stealing, you cannot con yourself you're in control any more.
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Despotism is a long crime.
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Stuff that I write isn't as similar to the stuff that I'm in, but I don't really care. I just do comedy.
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You could not give up a human heart as you could give up drinking. The drink was yours, and you could give it up: but your lover’s soul was not your own: it was not at your disposal; you had a duty towards it.
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Egypt has suffered more ordeals than the other countries to get where it is.
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I had a happier experience of the city as an actress than I had had as a model.
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I write in a pretty straightforward way. I kind of sit down at page one and start writing.
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The fact is that most crime novels contain a good many punchlines. They are just rather darker than the ones you might hear in a comedy club.
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You must become an activist if you are going to live the natural life.
