Sandra Cisneros Quotes
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Some borrowers are pretty damn good at fraud.
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The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age, and an age is heroic because of what it is, not because of what it does.
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If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
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Unless and until you inspire the people, you will not get results. Imposition will never give you the results. Inspiration will always give you the results.
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Contrary to popular belief, I'm not always trying to stand out.
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People do bad things in their lives. And those sort of things are forgivable. That's half the point of having confession in church - you need to be able to fess up to what you've done.
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Writing is much, much harder than taking pictures because you have to man-haul it all out of your insides.
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Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
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Those boos really motivate me to make something happen.
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I am an artist, and I have the ability and the free will to choose the way the world will envision me.
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I used to get a shiver if I thought about holding balloons, because I was scared of floating away.
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Ain't no place like New Orleans. It's one of kind.
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Any commodity that sees its price going higher will see new mines opening up. When the supply increases, the prices soften. When prices fall, some mines with higher production costs will shut down as they become unviable.
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When I write a goal down - and I truly write them down - it becomes a part of me. That's a contract that I sign with myself to say, 'I don't care what happens - I'm going to stay on this path. I'm going to try and see this through; I'm going to give it my best shot, my best effort.'
Gail Devers -
I have learned so much from God that I can no longer call myself a Christian, a Hindu, a Muslim, a Buddhist, a Jew.
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We fought like heck for every player and every advantage, but we knew we were part of something bigger than ourselves. To me, that is what baseball is all about. I hope it is always what baseball is all about.
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I have plenty of investments that I wish I'd never made. But the model is to lose money on a lot of investments and then make 1,000X or 10,000X on an investment.
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I wish I got invited to more luaus. I really do!
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I love writing and can't imagine not being able to do it. I want an easy life and if it had been difficult I wouldn't be doing it. I do admire writers who do it even though it costs them.
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Pushing the boundaries of polite society does not just fall under the purview of crime fiction authors.
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One of the consequences of such notions as ‘entitlements’ is that people who have contributed nothing to society feel that society owes them something, apparently just for being nice enough to grace us with their presence.
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I would prefer a public option that would be a competitive option that would allow people to buy into a Federal Employee Health Benefits Program, which is a series of private plans.
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If you're going to write about the river, you've got to get in.
