Melissa de la Cruz Quotes
You cannot be with someone just because you don’t want to hurt him. You have your own happiness to think about.

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During the fall and winter we built Fort Meade and the town of Sturgis.
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Think and grow rich.
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When I was depressed, nobody expected anything of me, nor did I expect anything of myself. I was exempt from life's demands and risks. But if I were to find new life, who knows what daunting tasks I might be required to take on?
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In the world of language, or in other words in the world of art and liberal education, religion necessarily appears as mythology or as Bible.
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I use more makeup now then I did before. I didn't use to wear really that much, and I didn't know how to do makeup, but now I know how to do it a bit more. I can do eyes and makeup in general more. I do like my own lipstick as well.
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Whatever you're selling, storage or networking or security, you're going head to head with the incumbent players.
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Most reporters are so transactional rather than strategic.
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As I told the students every time I visited a campus, you are the director of your own movie, and if you aren't enjoying what you are doing, change it.
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I wrote my first book when I was in my late thirties.
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Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.
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I'm not a negative person.
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You can't get anymore classic than being a part of a Disney animated film. To me, that's something I can have in my back pocket for the rest of my life. I'll be able to show it to my kids. I'll be walking around Disneyland, and it'll be bizarre to shake hands with Rapunzel.
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I believe consistency and orthogonality are tools of design, not the primary goal in design.
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When I tend to belt, it kind of reminds me of like a more '60s girl doo-wop kind of belting.
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As an American Jew who loves Israel, I cannot support John McCain. He cannot provide what Israel needs most - a respected, credible, morally strong America.
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This is the first age that's ever paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one.
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I pushed against doing a podcast for so long. I'm a very late comer to the podcast game. But you're responsibility as a comedian is to get your viewpoints out into the world, and we have a lot more avenues to do that. So it's a lot more opportunity, but really have to work all the time.
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It's a crazy busy schedule, but I still have two hours a day for school because it's a priority.
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Isn't strength the ability to renounce every lie in your heart?
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A different language is a different vision of life.
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When you learn, you grow. You have to stretch, and it's not easy. You know, if you're working out your muscles, if you're doing whatever, it's gonna hurt a little bit.
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The discovery of a new dish confers more happiness on humanity, than the discovery of a new star.
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You cannot be with someone just because you don’t want to hurt him. You have your own happiness to think about.