Sandra Cisneros Quotes
When you're in that state of grief, any little breeze, any hello, any confrontation, any grazing of someone meeting your eyes, might cause you suddenly to burst into grief. You could be looking at a jar of peanut butter in the supermarket, and then start crying.
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The reality is we talk a lot about it, but we really don't give everyone an opportunity to buy into it, and this combines both the best of Republican and Democratic ideals.
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My kids always say to me, 'Can we watch TV?' I say, 'Absolutely!' because then I can get something done. But then they say, and I wait for it, 'But can you watch with us?' My moment of freedom vanishes. So not only do I not think TV's that great and I hate sitting in front of it, but I have to with them.
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I didn't know there was a dying-professor section at the bookstore.
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One of the things I like best about the Halloween show is that I change outfits about six times in the show. It is a lot of fun to play the different characters.
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If I ever have sex with someone I might be able to develop a sense of humor.
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I once rode a motorcycle across Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco!
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I'm more offended when someone's killed on television than when there's something that's sensuous or sexual. So what?
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No, I regret nothing, all I regret is having been born, dying is such a long tiresome business I always found.
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Sometimes some of these little side excursions are useful and I manage to fit them in the book somewhere.
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The big mathematical challenge for flying robots is making them move in six dimensions: x, y, z, pitch, yaw and roll. We create 3-D obstacle courses in the lab - windows, doors, hula-hoops taped to posts - and ask the robots to fly through. It looks like a Harry Potter Quidditch match.
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You only do good work when you're taking risks and pushing yourself.
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A war between Europeans is a civil war.
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I felt disconnected from the decisions made in Washington and, to be honest, really didn't think my vote mattered because I didn't have a direct line of sight from my vote to a result.
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I was watching 'The September Issue' in the back of a theater in New York, and I thought, 'I know I really can do this with actors.'
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If a big number of young pupils felt secularism was an attack on them, it was because the term had been misused and deformed in the public debate for years by the extreme-right and the right as an attack on Islam. The term had often been misused to point out how Muslims were different to others, and that is clearly problematic.
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I got obsessed with classical music, I got obsessed with Chopin, with playing the piano.
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Theater is dangerously open to repetition. It's exciting when you hit on a new way.
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Like the early Christians, we must move into a sometime hostile world armed with the revolutionary gospel of Jesus Christ. With this powerful gospel we shall boldly challenge the status quo.
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Why, I can smile and murder whiles I smile, And cry 'content' to that which grieves my heart, And wet my cheeks with artificial tears, And frame my face for all occasions
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When kids hit one year old, it's like hanging out with a miniature drunk. You have to hold onto them. They bump into things. They laugh and cry. They urinate. They vomit.
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The rich are staying in school, and the poor are being drafted. I can't live with that.
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When you're in that state of grief, any little breeze, any hello, any confrontation, any grazing of someone meeting your eyes, might cause you suddenly to burst into grief. You could be looking at a jar of peanut butter in the supermarket, and then start crying.
