Melissa de la Cruz Quotes

And Kingsley being Kingsley, he smiled as he pretended to pull the trigger.

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• But 'Cuban Linx' was a project that really needed to come, and I really wanted to get it off my chest because I know that the fans were really skeptical about it, like 'is this really gonna be what it's supposed to be?' So once everybody caught it for what it was and everybody was happy, that's mission accomplished for me.

  

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• God created the world just like a knife and left it up to us to take it by the handle or the blade.

  

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• You will find that God is always by the side of the fearless.

  

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• For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers.

  

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• The enormous multiplication of books in every branch of knowledge is one of the greatest evils of this age, since it presents one of the most serious obstacles to the acquisition of correct information by throwing in the reader's way piles of lumber in which he must painfully grope for the scraps of useful matter, peradventure interspersed.

  

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• We must not hope to be mowers, And to gather the ripe gold ears, Unless we have first been sowers And water the furrows with tears. It is not just as we take it, This mystical world of ours, Life's field will yield as we make it A harvest of thorns or of flowers.

  

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• Decisions are made by people who have time, not people who have talent.

  

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• And never have I felt so deeply at one and the same time so detached from myself and so present in the world.

  

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• There are people who would rather choke than go see my movies. They write me letters all the time.

  

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• I think the rich are too rich and the poor are too poor. I don't think the black people are going to rise at all; I think most of them are going to die.

  

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• The contents of a house can trigger all sorts of revisions to family history.

  

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• The worst form of injustice is pretended justice.

  

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• Buddha was speaking in a village square one day, when one of the inhabitants started to abuse him. Buddha paused and said to the man, "If you offer me a piece of paper and I refuse to accept it, what happens to the paper?" "Why, it stays with me, of course," the villager replied. Buddha smiled gently, "And that is exactly what I am doing with your abuse," he said. "I am not accepting it, therefore it stays with you."

  

  Gautama Buddha
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• As a son of a man who pretended to be one thing for 33 years of my life and then was another thing, the questions of 'what is real' and 'what is not real' are very blurrily vivid to me.

  

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• You still don't get it, do you, Margaret?' Kat smiled almost sadly. 'We never had to steal the Antony. All we had to do was get it next to the Cleopatra and switch the signs.

  

  Ally Carter
  • Sings
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• Either Malcolm X or Martin [Luther King] could have played the role of a unifier, but it was - Malcolm as long as he remained within the Nation of Islam, talking to the converted, he did not represent a fundamental threat to the American government.

  

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• And Kingsley being Kingsley, he smiled as he pretended to pull the trigger.

  

  Melissa de la Cruz
  • Smiled
  • Pretended
  • Trigger