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Quote by Elizabeth Gilbert
I think that people who live in cultures without quite so much pri

I think that people who live in cultures without quite so much privilege, opportunity or grandiosity have a little bit more respect for the workings of destiny, and the limitations that people can find themselves in through no fault of their own. – Elizabeth Gilbert

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Its not an accident that both my sister and I are writers. Our parents created an accidental Petri dish. My family has great storytellers, and I grew up in a very funny, conversational house and didnt have television. This small family farm was a bubble world that didnt have much to do with reality. – Elizabeth Gilbert

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I know Im not a self-indulgent idiot I also know Im not the second coming of Deepak Chopra. If I had believed either of those, or both, as some people do when they get famous, thats when the mental illness arrives. – Elizabeth Gilbert

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I think its unfortunate that there exists only one path in America to complete social legitimacy, and that is marriage. I think, for instance, that it would be far easier for Americans to elect a black president or a female president than an unmarried president. – Elizabeth Gilbert

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I have nothing but respect for HBO. – James Gandolfini

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People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned. – James Baldwin

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Since the composer has said everything, if you discover everything, it will be enough and you will be a happy man. Dont try to say its your taste, and because of that you are changing this or that. And I must say this respect is still there. – Kurt Masur

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The common denominator all Latinos have is that we want some respect. Thats what were all fighting for. – Cristina Saralegui

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And don’t think the garden loses its ecstasy in winter. It’s quiet, but the roots are down there riotous. – Rumi

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People didnt have the political guts to stand up against an American war. – George McGovern

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Learning another language is not only learning different words for the same things, but learning another way to think about things. – Flora Lewis

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Think what a better world it would be if we all – the whole world – had cookies and milk about three o’clock every afternoon and then lay down with our blankies for a nap. – Robert Fulghum, All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten, commonly mi

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