Melissa de la Cruz Quotes
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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.
Raekwon -
God created the world just like a knife and left it up to us to take it by the handle or the blade.
Cornelis Jacobus Langenhoven -
You will find that God is always by the side of the fearless.
Mahatma Gandhi -
For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers.
Hermann Hesse -
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.
Edgar Allan Poe -
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.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Decisions are made by people who have time, not people who have talent.
Scott Adams -
And never have I felt so deeply at one and the same time so detached from myself and so present in the world.
Albert Camus -
There are people who would rather choke than go see my movies. They write me letters all the time.
Alec Baldwin -
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.
Eunice Kathleen Waymon -
The contents of a house can trigger all sorts of revisions to family history.
Louise Erdrich -
The worst form of injustice is pretended justice.
Plato
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I pretended to be somebody I wanted to be until finally I became that person. Or he became me.
Cary Grant -
There is no ICC anymore. It is just BCCI. It is not International Cricket Council it is International Crime Council. If you take all the cricket board Presidents am sure they are all puppets. ICC is the toothless tiger.
Arjuna Ranatunga -
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.
Manning Marable -
When a gift is difficult to give away, it becomes even more rare and precious, somehow gathering a part of the giver to the gift itself.
Cate Blanchett -
And Kingsley being Kingsley, he smiled as he pretended to pull the trigger.
Melissa de la Cruz