Jennine Capó Crucet Quotes

It seems disrespectful to my parents who left... to hear their story over and over again which always ends with... 'and I'll never go back as long as anyone in the Castro family is in power.' Well, what happens if you can go back? Would you want to see things?

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• I am tone deaf.

  

  Rachelle Lefevre
  • Deaf

• I once tried standing up on my toes to see far out in the distance, but I found that I could see much farther by climbing to a high place.

  

  Xun Kuang
  • Up
  • High
  • See

• As far back as I can remember though, I always loved performing.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Remember
  • Always
  • Loved

• I was the first actress who branded her own line at a time when everyone just lent their name to a product. Everyone said I shouldn't do it, but it was probably the best thing I've ever done.

  

  Jaclyn Smith
  • Time
  • Done
  • Best

• I throw a spear into the darkness. That is intuition. Then I must send an army into the darkness to find the spear. That is intellect.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • Find
  • Army
  • Darkness

• There's a lot of risk in putting what you suspect you really are into your music.

  

  J. Tillman
  • Music
  • You
  • Risk

• You'd never look at a Rembrandt and say, 'That's just wood and canvas and paint - how much?!' It's all about how many people want it. It works on a pair of jeans as well - they're just material and stitching, and as soon as you walk out of the shop, they're worth nothing.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • People
  • Walk
  • Canvas

• My impression of Americans from the beginning is of the best, and I have never since had cause to alter my mind. They are a kind, sympathetic race of people and naturally proud of their country.

  

  W. H. Davies
  • People
  • Country
  • Mind

• I just got a band together in mid-2012, and we played our first show in October of that year.

  

  Vance Joy
  • Together
  • Band
  • Year

• I had the longest, biggest bowl cut. It looked like I had a perfectly straightened mop on the top of my head.

  

  Cameron Dallas
  • Like
  • Head
  • Top

• I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Best
  • Satisfied
  • Tastes

• I have always been aware that you have to get people listening before you can change their minds. Any artist's big fear is being ignored, so if you get debate, that's great.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • People
  • Great
  • Fear

• We love a good, hyped sound, but when it starts to sound insincere, that's when I lose interest. I hope that our music, even if it sounds polished, doesn't sound insincere.

  

  Nate Ruess Fun.
  • Love
  • Hope
  • Interest

• Just because something is three months away and seems far off, doesn't mean you will want to be there when the time comes.

  

  Jaclyn Smith
  • Time
  • Want
  • Three

• The Buddhist view, 'takes the function of work to be at least threefold': 'to give a man a chance to utilize and develop his faculties; to enable him to overcome his egocentredness by joining with other people in a common task; and to bring forth the goods and services needed for a becoming existence.'

  

  E. F. Schumacher
  • People
  • Work

• The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again: and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • May
  • Alone

• Globalization - and I think we share this conviction - is that globalization needs to be shaped politically. It needs to be given a human face. But we cannot allow to fall back into pre-globalization times. So this conclusion of trade agreements that go beyond the scope of mere tariff agreements, customs agreements, are most important.

  

  Angela Merkel
  • Important
  • Fall

• People are working harder and harder than ever before and barely staying in place.

  

  Jim Talent
  • People

• The nature of power is such that even those who have not sought it, but have had it forced upon them, tend to acquire a taste for more.

  

  Aldous Huxley
  • Power
  • Nature

• In some ways, I value specificity. I think that there's power in, once you know who your fan base is, being able to speak to them. I hope to cultivate a fan base of black girls and black people and people of color, women of color, queer people, people who are are marginalized in general.

  

  Jamila Woods
  • People
  • Women
  • Power

• We are three dimensional beings: body, mind, spirit.

  

  Laurence Fishburne
  • Mind

• What purifies the heart refines language.

  

  John Lancaster Spalding
  • Heart

• It seems disrespectful to my parents who left... to hear their story over and over again which always ends with... 'and I'll never go back as long as anyone in the Castro family is in power.' Well, what happens if you can go back? Would you want to see things?

  

  Jennine Capó Crucet
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