Sandra Cisneros Quotes
I feel comfortable in Spanish, I chat like a parrot, but I don't have the confidence in Spanish that I do in English.
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Unless technology itself is drastically repressed, the idea of the dystopian monoculture like Orwell's 1984 gets harder to believe. But the danger of a solipsistic society will grow, of a disconnected society of mirror-watchers and navel-gazers.
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I just heard the latest joke about my hair: 'Do you know what that is on her head? It's a steering wheel to drive the state.'
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I have three brothers, and they'd torture me if I ever told them I liked a boy.
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Security was another reason. You never know what can happen to you when you earn a lot of money.
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A rich, robust, well-resourced public education is one of the best routes out of poverty and a pathway to prosperity.
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I just had fun making the movies - just being on set - but I didn't really care about the acting part.
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The Baltic Sea is becoming more and more polluted. Not everybody living near the shore of the Baltic Sea is protecting it. It is the water of life for countries like Finland and Sweden.
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I know a lot of people who enjoy rap music who aren't black. You can't just say it's black music. To segregate films the way Hollywood likes to segregate films, ultimately everyone loses.
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The Republican Party's history is rich and chock full of emancipation and black history.
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I say three prayers every night to make sure that God knows I thank him so much.
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I love Alton Brown's show 'Good Eats,' about the chemistry of food. It's really thoughtful.
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I began to feel lighthearted. Don’t ever do that; it tempts some dark and evil force abroad in the universe.
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The result is a memorial that expresses both the incalculable loss of life and its regeneration.
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Dwelling on an engine failure for a pilot as he rolls down the runway is NOT what he should be thinking about - it's obtaining a smooth liftoff! But in the back of his mind, he knows exactly what to do (or pretty much) and in many cases, if he's alone in the fighter aircraft, he has to leave that aircraft in an ejection seat in a big hurry!
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When I have a full schedule like that, I don't see myself sitting there for a couple of months, doing the research, going through a painful process, it's just not my thing anymore.
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So-called restoration is at least as tricky as brain surgery. Most pictures expire under scalpel and sponge.
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The Opposition should be concentrating on opposing the government rather than involving themselves in endless speculation.
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I work with The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University. I sit proudly as one of only two recovering addicts on their board.
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It's fabulous when you do that, when you discover somebody who you like, when you kind of feel those feelings, even though he articulates them better.
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The cardinal virtue of all beauty is restraint.
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I feel comfortable in Spanish, I chat like a parrot, but I don't have the confidence in Spanish that I do in English.
