Melissa de la Cruz Quotes
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During the morning rush hour on March 20, 1995, the Japanese cult Aum Shinrikyo placed packages on five subway trains converging on Tokyo's central station. When punctured, the packages spread vaporized Sarin through the subway cars and then into the stations as the trains pulled in.
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I don't want to come off like the jealous brother who wasn't getting the attention, but it was like no one was really into me anyway. I wasn't really a priority.
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I came from the theater playing leading roles, and when I started doing film and television, I felt as if I had to start from the bottom.
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It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.
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Show business is one of those things that people can use to get themselves out of the lower rung of society.
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I only buy a computer when it's two years old, after the glitches have been worked out.
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Tonight, we gather to affirm the greatness of our nation - not because of the height of our skyscrapers, or the power of our military, or the size of our economy. Our pride is based on a very simple premise, summed up in a declaration made over two hundred years ago.
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Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it.
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I've played in Boston and New York, and it doesn't matter if you're sick, aching - once you step on that field, you're a completely different animal.
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My mother's nickname for me is 'Positive Patrick.' I like to live up to that title.
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Human nature and deliberate effort must unite, and then the reputation of the sage and the work of unifying all under Heaven are thereupon brought to completion.
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For me it's about the music, and it always has been. Maybe for some other people it's more about money.
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I grew up in the sixties watching B.B. King and Tito Puente and Miles Davis and Coltrane, everybody, Marvin Gaye, Jimi. And at the same time, with my left eye I was watching Dolores Huerta, Cesar Chavez, Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, Mother Teresa.
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I've been in some bad TV shows and suffered through so much poor writing.
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Partition is bad. But whatever is past is past. We have only to look to the future.
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Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end.
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I never doubted that I would be a good mayor. I never did.
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I am just reflecting the times. I can't ignore them.
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I'm not a big texter anyway. I'm really slow at it and so I try to avoid it to avoid embarrassment, you know what I mean?
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The Journey of Reconciliation was organized not only to devise techniques for eliminating Jim Crow in travel, but also as a training ground for similar peaceful projects against discrimination in such major areas as employment and in the armed services.
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What's possible?” - she asked “Anything,” he said absently. “But that’s not what I was talking about. Oh, hello, Claire. You’re in good time. I need an extra pair of hands.” “As long as I keep them attached,” she said, which earned her a startled stare. “The things you say to me, you’d think I was some sort of monster.” -- Myrnin and Claire
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There is not a moment when I do not feel the presence of a Witness whose eye misses nothing and with whom I strive to keep in tune.
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Maybe weakness is a strength of a kind.
