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Paul Allen Inspirational Quotes (33)

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For the American Indian, the ability of all creatures to share in the process of ongoing creation makes all things sacred.
Paula Gunn Allen
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I am not especially defined by my sex life, nor complete without it.
Paula Gunn Allen
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... America has amnesia. ... Certainly, there is a passion for memory loss in American thought. ... Americans may be the world champion forgetters.
Paula Gunn Allen
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For the most part, the best opportunities now lie where your competitors have yet to establish themselves, not where they're already entrenched. Microsoft is struggling to adapt to that new reality.
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I think it's going to be great if people can buy a ticket to fly up and see black sky and the stars. I'd like to do it myself-but probably after it has flown a serious number of times first!
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That would be such a life-changing thing, for us all to know that there are other beings out there who we could potentially communicate with, or maybe we are listening to a signal that they transmitted hundreds of millennia ago.
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Technology is notorious for engrossing people so much that they don't always focus on balance and enjoy life at the same time.
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The root of oppression is the loss of memory.
Paula Gunn Allen
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An odd thing occurs in the minds of Americans when Indian civilization in mentioned: little or nothing.
Paula Gunn Allen
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The Indians used to be the only inhabitants of the Americas, but times change. Having perceived us as belonging to history, they are free to emote over us, to re-create us in their history-based understanding, and dismiss our present lives as archaic and irrelevant to the times.
Paula Gunn Allen
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We are the women of daylight of clocks and steel foundries, of drugstores and streetlights, of superhighways that slice our days in two. Our dreams are pale memories of themselves, and nagging doubt is the false measure of our days.
Paula Gunn Allen
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We've had some tough times, but we've hung in there.
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Snowflakes, leaves, humans, plants, raindrops, stars, molecules, microscopic entities all come in communities. The singular cannot in reality exist.
Paula Gunn Allen
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When it comes to helping out, I don't believe in doing it for the media attention. My goal is to support the organizations that need help.
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I'm a very private person that prefers a low profile.
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Traditionally, Seattle has been a great sports town and great football town. What the Huskies have achieved over the years has been pretty amazing. That's how I got my first taste of football - when I went with my father to Husky Stadium.
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With documentary-film projects, you hope you highlight an area of concern people haven't thought about before. A lot of times, I'm asking myself - 'This seems to be a significant problem. What can be done that hasn't been done?
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The only regrets I have are rather prosaic - like I wish I went for a swim in the Pacific.
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You look at things you enjoy in your life, but much more important is what you can do to make the world a better place.
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It's a little-known linguistic curiosity that the name Jehovah or Jaweh is the same name as Eve Havva, the counterpart name in Farsi, the language spoken by the Persians, means either Jaweh or Eve.
Paula Gunn Allen
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My mother told me stories all the time... And in all of those stories she told me who I was, who I was supposed to be, whom I came from, and who would follow me... That's what she said and what she showed me in the things she did and the way she lives.
Paula Gunn Allen
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In global warming, I think everyone is scratching their heads - are there technological things that can be brought to bear that can make a difference?
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We are the land. To the best of my understanding, that is the fundamental idea that permeates American Indian life.
Paula Gunn Allen
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In the native world, major gods come in trios, duos, and groups. It is the habit of non-natives to discover the supreme being, the one and only head god, a habit lent to them by monotheism.
Paula Gunn Allen
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