Kristin Bauer van Straten Quotes
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I'm half Puerto Rican and every Friday we have rice and beans and chicken in my house - so that's like a very Latin staple. It's just so comforting. I look forward to every single Friday because I just can't wait for my rice and beans and chicken.
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I do not deal with threats and ultimatums.
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The main thing is to make history, not to write it.
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Somehow I got the feeling at an early age that I had to do something important with my life.
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You always hear about delegation, but people make the mistake of delegating and not following up. I give authority, but I stay in touch. Otherwise it doesn't work.
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There's something about the modern era where it's very hard to transgress - we're all so online, easier to track by mobile phone - so you have people who do it on your behalf.
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Your understanding of what you read and hear is, to a very large degree, determined by your vocabulary, so improve your vocabulary daily.
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The most peaceable tribes of today were often ravagers of yesteryear and will probably again produce soldiers and murderers in the future.
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There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.
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Sparrow: Listen, Mo. I have been doing crisis intervention with battered, homeless women and kids all week long. Tonight, I am going to vegetate in front of the TV. If you're so worried about Bosnia, go join the Red Cross.
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The sky itself is the eighth color of the rainbow, spread over the whole sky for us, all the time.
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I have a sweet tooth the size of Connecticut. It's a problem.
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I pray every day for my little girls. It's hard out there for the younger generation.
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There was a period when I'd just come out of college where I'd been playing classical guitar and I suddenly realised that it wasn't what I wanted to do with the rest of my life.
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I read 'the Hobbit' at the age when you're supposed to read it. I didn't read 'The Lord Of The Rings.' My father, who was an English teacher, advised me that once I had read 'the Hobbit,' that would be enough. I could then move on to Dostoyevsky.
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All of the full moons for the entire year are special in that they have particular names.
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It's a younger generation running the show, and I miss the generation we had in the '70s. They were really very honorable guys, like Neal Bogart and Bill Graham, people who will never be around again.
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I think you could find some waves on the west side of Denmark, but I never tried it.
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I'm not a politician or political animal.
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The proletariat uses the State not in the interests of freedom but in order to hold down its adversaries, and as soon as it becomes possible to speak of freedom the State as such ceases to exist.
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I just miss - I miss being anonymous.
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Stripped of its plot, the 'Iliad' is a scattering of names and biographies of ordinary soldiers: men who trip over their shields, lose their courage or miss their wives. In addition to these, there is a cast of anonymous people: the farmers, walkers, mothers, neighbours who inhabit its similes.
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I am no longer able to be anonymous.
