Sandra Cisneros Quotes
My mom was a frustrated woman, like so many unhappy women who didn't get the opportunities they wanted.
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For me, I'm always looking for the opportunity for a character that challenges me and lets me play two for the price of one.
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I'm interested in giving business an opportunity by improving the tax environment to invest and grow with Pennsylvania, to expand and put more money in capital investment and creating jobs.
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If the spectrum linking everyday depression to Major Depression sometimes hinders understanding of it, it also offers an opportunity for empathy. Because almost everyone, at some point, experiences feelings of sadness, of hopelessness, of emptiness, not to mention lethargy and irritability.
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Every little girl looks up to her mom so much - that's your first hero.
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Training a puppy is like raising a child. Every single interaction is a training opportunity.
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My parents landed in Calgary in December 1974, straight from Nairobi. They were immigrants, like many people coming to build a better life. My mom was five months pregnant with me when they landed.
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Diversity in the industry is very lacking, and equal opportunity comes very far and few between for people of color.
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My grandmother, grandfather, my mom - we've always been driven by laughter. It's what held us together. Thanksgivings, any kind of family get-together, we usually end up in tears.
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There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.
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My mom, she's a great cook. You know, pirogue, borscht. I love borscht, and I love Pilemeni, meat dumplings.
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I learned that there are two things that kids really like: movement and love. Happy kids move; unhappy, they don't move.
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I naturally wanted to be saved, so when I came home I told my mom I wanted to be confirmed. That's the way I related to it, being raised an Episcopalian. I went to Dallas and got confirmed.
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I think the older that I'm getting, the more I'm understand what a privileged job I have, and what an opportunity I have. Now I'm directing films and I'm getting my first movie in America off the ground, and you start to understand how the system really works.
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My mom passed on her obsession of all things antique or vintage. I love to go thrift store shopping or explore any sort of garage sale. Treasure hunting is a family passion.
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In the U.S. the powerful critics of austerity such as Paul Krugman and Robert Reich rightly identify the decline of 'labor' as a problem, and renewing trade unionism part of the solution. Our opportunity is to make the same case in the UK.
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Mom was a housewife; Dad was an accountant. They taught me a lot about the value of working hard.
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What's important for my daughter to know is that... if you are fortunate to have opportunity, it is your duty to make sure other people have those opportunities as well.
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There is no guarantee what will give you happiness any which way. I know many married people who are unhappy.
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There is an opportunity to consolidate the North American region as a more competitive region, a more productive region that will be more competitive than other blocs that have integrated in the rest of the world.
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For us [hockey] is an opportunity, myself and my brothers have an opportunity to do something special.
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Stay open to opportunity - you never know where your next important connection will be made.
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When it comes to government policy, can we please stop using words like "architect"? Telling people what to do is not a skilled profession.
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During the 1990s, San Francisco lived through one of the most intense economic booms of its history.
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My mom was a frustrated woman, like so many unhappy women who didn't get the opportunities they wanted.
