Melissa de la Cruz Quotes
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There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.
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In Japan, there is less a culture of preserving old buildings than in Europe.
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War is not an exercise of the will directed at an inanimate matter.
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The turkey has a destiny which ends on San Martino's day.
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Habit is a great deadener.
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I didn't know that I could do a talk show. I didn't know that we could bring variety to daytime. I didn't know that people wanted to see singing, and dancing and comedy in the morning.
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Animals play a big part in my life, on tour or at home.
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I like to dress up every now and then.
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Verdiana was the child of poor though well-born parents, and her knowledge of the sufferings of the poor from her own experience in early years made her ever full of pity for those in need.
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You want people to buy you as just about anything. So if they think that you're one thing, it's hard to slip into, you know, all these other things.
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I am guilty of asking the Senate for pork and proud of the Senate for giving it to me.
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My brain doesn't like to be quiet.
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Hold fast to dreams For when dreams go Life is a barren field Frozen with snow.
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America, I know the road will be long, but I know we can get there. Yes, we will stumble, but I know we’ll get back up. That’s how a movement happens. That’s how history bends. That's how when somebody is faint of heart, somebody else brings them along and says, come on, we’re marching.
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A scientist can pretend that his work isn’t himself, it’s merely the impersonal truth. An artist can’t hide behind the truth. He can’t hide anywhere.
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(He remarked) that anyone who truly wished to develop tolerance toward other human beings should start by casting aside any and all religious affiliation. When challenged by one of the other guests, he had asked innocently whether anyone could name a single person put to death or driven from his home by an atheist over theological matters.
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Inside me I'm screaming, nobody pays any attention. If I had arms, I could kill myself. If I had legs, I could run away. If I had a voice, I could talk and be some kind of company for myself. I could yell for help, but nobody would help me.
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The poet is in command of his fantasy, while it is exactly the mark of the neurotic that he is possessed by his fantasy.
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'Aid from heaven you may have,' he said, 'by saying your prayers; and I don't doubt you ask for this and all other things generally. But an angel won't come to tell you who ought to be Chancellor of the Exchequer.'
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The fact that human intuition is ill suited to situations involving uncertainty was known as early as the 1930's, when researchers noted that people could neither make up a sequence of numbers that passed mathematical tests for randomness nor recognize reliably whether a given string was randomly generated.
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The more I thought about myself, the weaker I got. The more I recognized that I was serving a purpose larger than myself, the stronger I got.
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I'm part of an important movement that needs to happen.
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I'm not a nightclub person, but you need to have a social life sometimes.
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This is not some silly game...This is life and death Angels and demons.
