Sandra Cisneros Quotes
I have to say that the traditional role is kind of a myth. I think the traditional Mexican woman is a fierce woman.
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California has always led the way on environmental protection and always reaped the benefits, pioneering everything from catalytic convertors on cars to stationary source reduction.
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Apparently 'The Office' plays in Brazil. Who would've thought that Brazilians would identify with a bunch of pasty white Scrantonians in a paper company? But the Brazilians I've met have really loved the show.
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I found I could speak louder and was more comfortable if I was doing it in someone else's crazy voice.
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Gun owners and non-gun owners alike agree on expanding background checks, making gun trafficking a serious crime with stiff penalties, making it illegal for all stalkers and all domestic abusers to buy guns, and expanding mental health resources so the mentally ill find it easier to receive treatment than to buy firearms.
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The North American intellectual tradition began, I maintain, in the encounter of British Romanticism with assertive, pragmatic North American English - the Protestant plain style in both the U.S. and Canada, with its no-nonsense Scottish immigrants.
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I've always just talked to my family and my friends. I've never been a person that's gone through excessive therapy at all. Some people might say that I should.
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Religion is absolutely unfathomable. Always and everywhere one can dig more deeply into infinities.
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I'm waiting for them to come up with a 'Star Trek' thing so they can beam me from my house to the gigs and back.
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Everyone has a breakup in their lives, and I think everyone should experience love.
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That's pretty much who I am. I like to get riled up. I feel like it brings the best out of me and the other guys.
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I enjoy making films, but my heart is in the stage. Every night you have to be on. There's no second take.
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I am a big fan of movies that don't take themselves too seriously. You know you won't change the world, but have fun. Movies like 'Butch Cassidy' I enjoyed tremendously, but it didn't alter my opinion of the world.
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I started my career with 'Refugee' in Bhuj. Now, it has become a full-fledged city.
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Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed.
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If someone gets married at 15, they're either dumb or pregnant. I was both.
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Look at countries like China, they are determined to dominate all clean technology areas, putting lots of money into wind, solar, electric vehicles and battery storage. America's political impotence, caused by their terrible partisanship, will see them left behind.
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We should be firing bad teachers.
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The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.
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I hate to lose. It's a bad feeling, but, I mean, it kind of gets you resettled, gets you back right.
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There's a certain level of pageantry with 'Idol,' and in order to work the show, you kind of have to feed into it.
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Give me the clear blue sky over my head, and the green turf beneath my feet, a winding road before me, and a three hours' march to dinner - and then to thinking! ... I begin to feel, think, and be myself again. Instead of an awkward silence, broken by attempts at wit or dull common-places, mine is that undisturbed silence of the heart which alone is perfect eloquence.
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It seems to me that politicians ought to use the same words as other people.
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For storytellers, financiers make ideal rogues. The easiest way to make characters unappealing is to make them rich - shorthand for spoiled, picky, superior, and cold-hearted.
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I have to say that the traditional role is kind of a myth. I think the traditional Mexican woman is a fierce woman.
