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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If your desk isn't cluttered, you probably aren't doing your job.
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If there is on earth a house with many mansions, it is the house of words.
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A tiny blue dot set in a sunbeam. Here it is. That's where we live. That's home. We humans are one species and this is our world. It is our responsibility to cherish it. Of all the worlds in our solar system, the only one so far as we know, graced by life.
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Los Angeles is an uncanny place to live. It has many science fiction qualities. For example, when I'm standing in line at the supermarket and I recognise the person in front of me, but I can't figure out how I know them. Suddenly, I realise I saw them in some random commercial six years ago.
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Love is a flower of life – sometimes half open, one has to receive it with both hands. Nurture it, so it may open to its full bloom – you will be rewarded with its blessful frangrance. You may be intoxicated for life. If you let it drop on the ground, you have missed the most valuable gift of life.
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I'm not shy or reclusive. I just spend my time with people rather than journalists.
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You must become an activist if you are going to live the natural life.
