Melissa de la Cruz Quotes
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When girls can get an education and women can work and run businesses or even serve as elected officials, the world benefits.
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Let reverence for the laws . . . become the political religion of the nation.
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Love and work are the only two real things in our lives. They belong together, otherwise it is off. Work is in itself a form of love.
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The sun will not shine on any country that has borders with ours.
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Thatcher was wrong. People don't exist - well, they don't flourish - as individuals. Life's about swapping ideas and communicating with other people.
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I love cooking for myself and cooking for my family.
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My real education began when I entered the University of Chicago in September 1951 as a graduate student.
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Just as the Japanese pioneered a new form of manufacturing - lean production and quite new standards of reliability - so Tata, too, is embracing new forms of manufacture in order to revolutionise the price to meet the consumer needs of a poor, developing country.
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The cement in our whole democracy today is the worker who makes $ 15 an hour. He's the guy who will buy a house and a car and a refrigerator. He's the oil in the engine.
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I had been in Africa for six weeks on a safari with my family. I said, "You know, I made a lot of money. I am getting kind of burned out. I really want to do something special." So I went on this extended trip to Egypt, Kenya, Sardinia - I really did it, man. I was coming home, and while I was gone, they changed the speed limit from 65 to 55.
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What our economy needs is direct job creation by the government and mortgage-debt relief for stressed consumers. What it very much does not need is a transfer of billions of dollars to corporations that have no intention of hiring anyone except more lobbyists.
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Coffee, she'd discovered, was tied to all sorts of memories, different for each person. Sunday mornings, friendly get-togethers, a favorite grandfather long since gone, the AA meeting that saved their life. Coffee meant something to people. Most found their lives were miserable without it. Coffee was a lot like love that way. And because Rachel believed in love, she believed in coffee, too.
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We can't accept that it's O.K. if only some kids get to go to college.
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I guess they're tough jokes. But there's lots of things you either laugh or cry at. And you just can't cry.
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I have issues with inheritance tax, particularly coming from a migrant family. My dad has worked incredibly hard all his life, so it seems odd to me that someone who has gone through that experience and has managed to save then gets taxed for dying.
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My acronym is WWSJD: What Would Steve Jobs Do?
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Colonialism is the massive fog that has clouded our imaginations regarding who we could be, excised our memories of who we once were, and numbed our understanding of our current existence.
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Initially we had to start off to make sure the test worked, we had to be confident about that and then it was rolled out in stages and continues to be rolled out in stages.
