Clarissa Pinkola Estes Quotes
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I walk around talking to myself in accents. Usually people look at me like I'm a complete fruit loop.
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Linda Hunt is so good and so sweet. She is a Tony Award nominee and won an Oscar. Pearls just come out of her mouth.
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My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.
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One of our first jobs was at Saba Software. We were helping them build their products for the cloud. We wanted to build our own product and move away from consulting. We were looking for a change. The CEO of Saba introduced me to Marc Benioff.
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Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise.
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With few exceptions, one ought always do what one is afraid of.
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You don't have to have a great voice to sing, just a distinctive one. But make sure you say the words clearly and tell a story.
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My career is playing the guys who go, 'Boo.' That's what I do.
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I don't ever want to be a person that I'm not. A lot of girls fall into the trap where they are trying to impress other people, and that's the time when they lose themselves.
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The closer a Negro got to the ballot box, the more he looked like a rapist.
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This result was confirmed by different researchers using various experimental arrangements.
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I prefer the countryside to cities. This is also true of my films: I have made more films in rural societies, and villages, than in towns.
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I was all about my thoughts, my work, my inspiration. I was always in hair.
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When I first started, I just wanted to work. I wouldn't necessarily do anything, but I'd pretty much almost do anything at the very beginning.
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Chief executives, who themselves own few shares of their companies, have no more feeling for the average stockholder than they do for baboons in Africa.
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We know from chaos theory that even if you had a perfect model of the world, you'd need infinite precision in order to predict future events. With sociopolitical or economic phenomena, we don't have anything like that.
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I always wanted to be a surgeon, because I had a lot of admiration for my father, who is also a surgeon. I also wanted to be a heart surgeon. That was motivated by the fact that my young aunt, a sister of my dad, died in her early 20s of a correctable heart disease.
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It's not until the very last phase that you know how good the works are going to be.
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I do think from time to time that conceptual questions arise: What do we mean by equilibrium? What do we mean by this concept and that concept?
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Vision with action can change the world.
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Those of us who were 12 or 13 when the war started were absolutely thrown into the mainstream. We had to grow up instantly and take care of ourselves.
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Support each other as is needed to achieve goals for the benefit of the people and the nation's security.
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The thing with labels is they're not for you, they're for other people. Like labels are just a word for other people to understand you and that's it.
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I know people heal by being able to tell the story - the whole story.
