Melissa de la Cruz Quotes
Memories were moving pictures in which meaning was constantly in flux. They were stories people told themselves.
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When I talk to people in need, they tell me they want to hope; they are eager for opportunity; they are ready for better days. And I can tell you that every time their hopes are disappointed, all nations lose.
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The path that went by the little house had become a road. Almost every day Laura and Mary stopped their playing and stared in surprise at a wagon slowly creaking by on that road.
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Shakespeare is a wonderful language to speak, but it's also a world to get your mind into thematically.
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America has much greatness left in her.
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You know, a lot of things changed. What never changed is the illusion to keep playing tennis, the illusion to keep doing well the things, and the illusion to be in a good position of the ranking and play these kind of matches.
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It seems to me an indictment of the Republican Party that if you talk about issues of poverty and upward mobility, people assume you're a Democrat.
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Diplomacy in a sense is the opposite of writing. You have to disperse yourself so much: the lady who comes in crying because she's had a fight with the secretary; exports and imports; students in trouble; thumbtacks for the embassy.
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I have spent a lot of time in the art world, and I guess I do listen to how people speak. I'm interested in what they say and how they say it.
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I once had a friend who did the hair for sci-fi movies, and after a particularly bad break-up I stupidly went to her salon and told her she could do anything she liked. She dyed the bottom cherry red and the top peroxide blonde.
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God is my homeboy. Jesus is my homeboy.
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We are symbols, and inhabit symbols.
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It is now clear that major irregularities did not occur.
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I am First Lady by accident. I was not elected by the people but here I am.
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C'est d'actes et non d'idées que vivent les peuples.
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From slavery to segregation, we remember that America did not always live up to its ideals. In fact, we often fell far short of them. But we also learned that fundamental to our national character is the drive to live out the true meaning of our creed.
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I mean Gorilla was really our first sort of goes at songwriting.
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Taylor Swift's audience can listen to me, but so can the street kids. I want to touch it all.
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I shall never come personally to terms with the Christian lie.
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I told you before, I'll fight anyone. I don't care.
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He looked at her Something Turned cancerous He was in love.
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Arbitrary power is the natural object of temptation to a prince, as wine and women to a young fellow, or a bribe to a judge, or avarice to old age.
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Memories were moving pictures in which meaning was constantly in flux. They were stories people told themselves.
