Sandra Cisneros Quotes
We tend to think of orphans as being the protagonist of stories we read when we're kids, and yet here you are: you're an adult, you're supposed to manage, you're supposed to get over it, you're supposed to go on with your life, and you feel like a lost child.
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I hope kids feel gratitude for what they do have.
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Laughing and crying are very similar. They're an extreme response to life. You see it in children who start laughing hysterically.
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By the time I get done with my fans and my music and my kids and my family and my fiance and my horses, well, they suffer too, but, I don't really have much time left to do anything else.
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You'd be surprised how many kids and young people come to the website and send me email that they are actually going into the Marine Corp because of something that I said or did.
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Getting kids moving is a key factor in tackling obesity and health problems among the young.
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Children are not unforgiving. You can punish them and they will hug you in a few minutes.
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With the White Stripes we were trying to trick people into not realising we were playing the blues. We did not want to come off like white kids trying to play black music from 100 years ago so a great way to distract them was by dressing in red, white and black.
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My kids are in front of the computer 24x7 despite having all the parental control. There is no way to stop the flow of information. The flow of information is too fast and too much.
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I tell people I won't vote to go to war unless I'm ready to go or send my kids.
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No matter how old a mother is she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement.
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Selective ignorance, a cornerstone of child rearing. You don't put kids under surveillance: it might frighten you. Parents should sit tall in the saddle and look upon their troops with a noble and benevolent and extremely nearsighted gaze.
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I can't be impatient. It would show on the floor, and I won't compete if I'm thinking about getting the ball.
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Now, and in the future, my focus is entirely on pets and children. I'm not a person who can turn a blind eye to injustice against them.
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My parents both had Oxford degrees, they read important books, spoke foreign languages, drank real coffee and went to museums for pleasure. People like that don't have fat kids: they were cut out to be winners and winners don't have children who are overweight.
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The biggest thing for me is wanting my kids to grow up safely and have happy lives. To me, that's enough.
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I want to move people to think and ponder the question of their own healthcare. And it doesn't need to be political thinking.
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Most children - I know I did when I was a kid - fantasize another set of parents. Or fantasize no parents. They don't tell their real parents about that - you don't want to tell Mom and Dad. Kids lead a very private life. And I was a typical child, I think. I was a liar.
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I'm not a futurist, so I don't spend a lot of time thinking about 20 years from now.
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Roy was just another bureaucrat to me, but I realized very soon that without Roy this thing would have died.
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The Midwest breeds funny, eccentric people, to varying degrees. You play shows not because you're expecting to get a record deal, but to do something fun outside of mowing lawns. Everything else is just gravy... Or mustard.
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I didn't want to get married - I thought it was like a cult! It seemed so conservative and unnatural.
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Sadly, journalism doesn't always state the obvious.
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The army influences everything I do. Certainly it teaches you discipline, which is a necessary element of development. I think there's more of a collaborative understanding in the band because of that.
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We tend to think of orphans as being the protagonist of stories we read when we're kids, and yet here you are: you're an adult, you're supposed to manage, you're supposed to get over it, you're supposed to go on with your life, and you feel like a lost child.
