Melissa de la Cruz Quotes
That was the thing about pictures--they were worth a thousand words, but sometimes they weren't the right ones.

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To imply that religious believers have no right to engage moral questions in the public square or at the ballot is simply to establish a Reichian secularism as our state faith.
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I do have friends who make movies, but for the most part, I never really wanted to feel like I was part of an industry.
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Let us show our fellow countrymen and the entire world what the Germans can do when they work for peace.
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I wanted to see how flavors, spices, and grains traveled back and forth along the Silk Road and were interpreted by a multitude of cultures' palates.
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I get a choice every time I have to open my mouth: that it can be with civility and dignity and grace - or not.
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But we cannot just take this historical fact for granted. We must make it live.
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Life is not easy in politics.
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There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.
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The worst mistake a woman can make is to emulate a man.
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We are hopeful that President Obama, in his State of the Union Address, will express a willingness to work with Republicans to enact all of these jobs bills.
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Virtues, like viruses, have their seasons of contagion. When catastrophe strikes, generosity spikes like a fever. Courage spreads in the face of tyranny.
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I have a very personal interest. I am a Miami-Dade voter. One of the issues is that my vote and so many other votes of women and African Americans in Florida are being discounted or discarded. I want my vote to count.
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It's true that Paris is made up of equal parts of social conservatism and anarchic experimentation, but foreigners never quite know where to place the moral accent mark.
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You can fool some of the people all of the time and all of the people some of the time, but you can only make a monkey out of the voters every four years!
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You can live a wonderful life, you can love God with all your heart, and you can love your husband or wife very passionately and have a balance in your life. I live by balance.
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A film of my life would never happen!
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If you look at 2009, why did the recovery happen? Recovery happened because somebody in the world's largest economy opened the tap: the U.S., followed by Europe and now Japan.
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I do have a regular childhood.
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'Green Garden' is about beauty and joy and lush green and dance and excitement and smiling from within.
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Tension is an interesting quality - and architecture must have it. There should be elements of the inexplicable, the mysterious, and the poetic in something that is perfectly rational.
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Even when writing your own poems, you need to talk to people; you need to magpie around, getting words and things. I'm very against the celebrity culture that wants to say: 'this is a genius, this is one person who has done something brilliant.' There are always a hundred people in the background who have helped to make it.
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There's no religious test in our country, and there shouldn't be. We're an open, competitive society.
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As a youth, I always did a good deal of reading in the summer months, having suffered since birth from an allergy to athletic activity.
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That was the thing about pictures--they were worth a thousand words, but sometimes they weren't the right ones.