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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The worst part of success is, to me, adapting to it. It's scary.
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In the theater, characters have to cut the umbilical cord from the writer and talk in their own voices.
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I've done some collaborations which have ended up like Chinese whispers, but the most successful was with Tilda Swinton... Together we transcended our previous work and made something better together than we could have done apart.
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For me, the first thing I fell madly in love with when I was little, was, Gilda Radner had this live performance that she had done at the Met that was on tape, and I could rent it from Video Video in New Jersey where I lived, and so I literally would rent it every two weeks.
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You must become an activist if you are going to live the natural life.
