Sandra Cisneros Quotes
Courage always bigger than what you think you can handle, but you're never going to be given something you can't handle. So you say, "Okay, when you tell me what it is that I'm supposed to do, please give me the courage to do it."
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I think my father was somewhat disappointed in not having had a son, and in that way I was the nearest thing he had.
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Whether I'm wearing lots of makeup or no makeup, I'm always the same person inside.
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Kindness and intelligence don't always deliver us from the pitfalls and traps: there are always failures of love, of will, of imagination. There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
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Americans believe cotton is best, but we've invented new fabrics that will change your lifestyle.
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I wanted to be in this business, and once I got into the business I knew I enjoyed it, and I liked it, and I wanted to continue, but I never had a five year plan.
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We recognize that the whole world is kind of moving in this direction to digital distribution, but at the same time, there are still people who only watch movies in a movie theater, and there are some people who only watch certain programs on television or certain things on Netflix.
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I'm the ugly sister. I'm the fat one. I'm the transvestite. I have had those mean things said about me at least twice a day for the last five years. It's horrible, you know? But I can brush that stuff off.
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I'm not saying we need to stop immigration at all; people can come from wherever.
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Everything that goes outside the rules of Italian cinema has always been cursed.
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My characters aren't chess pieces. I don't move them around some big board. I actually care about these fictitious people.
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I was kind of torn between playing music or playing college football. I was going to college and really focusing on my music career.
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I was fascinated by what motivates men and women to fight for what they believe in.
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Set out with some definite purpose in life and accomplish that purpose. There is little that the human mind can conceive that is not possible of accomplishment. The thing to do is to make up your mind what you are going to drive for, and let nothing stand in the way of its ultimate accomplishment.
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Oh, so they have internet on computers now!
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Republicans passed the Fourteenth Amendment, securing for blacks equal rights under the law, and the Fifteenth Amendment, giving blacks the right to vote, over the Democrats' opposition.
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I've said to [Donald Trump], and I think others have said to him that the day that he is the President of the United States, there are world capitals and financial markets and people all around the world who take really seriously what he says, and in a way that's just not true before you're actually sworn in as president.
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That's something we should be taught as kids: To be okay with ourselves.
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Courage always bigger than what you think you can handle, but you're never going to be given something you can't handle. So you say, "Okay, when you tell me what it is that I'm supposed to do, please give me the courage to do it."
