Sandra Cisneros Quotes
What I've learned is, if I have to go out and speak, the best way to get people's attention is to tell them a story, tell them a story that came from my corazón.Sandra Cisneros
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Whatever God or whatever higher power you believe in, they brought us to this earth in a perfect way, and you have to learn to love yourself. Otherwise, it's an exhausting way to be.
Callie Thorne -
The way I was raised, family was always the most important. When I had our first daughter, Natasha, I knew that's what I wanted to do.
Candace Cameron Bure -
Every little action creates an effect: We are all interconnected.
Yehuda Berg -
I have been interested in fashion since I was a kid. Then I lived in London, where it was more about costume and a personal statement of who you are than about fashion.
Zaha Hadid -
The orthogonal features, when combined, can explode into complexity.
Yukihiro Matsumoto -
I think people should know more of Africa in terms of its joie de vivre, its feeling for life. In spite of the images that one knows about Africa - the economic poverty, the corruption - there's a joy to living and a happiness in community, living together, in community life, which may be missing here in America.
Youssou N'Dour
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Maven is very much a haunting presence in 'Glass Sword.' His influence is everywhere, and he dogs Mare and Cal like no other. He's my favorite character to write because he's so complex, but also because he affects everyone else so deeply. He's kind of like the source of gravity. Everyone moves around him and what he's done.
Victoria Aveyard -
Without doubt, machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers.
Karl Marx -
You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me.
C. S. Lewis -
My brother is really, really slow.
Usain Bolt -
People don't want to serve apprenticeships any more. Kids expect to be paid and treated really well and all that guff before they've achieved anything. It doesn't work like that. You have to spend five or six years being relatively rubbish and put up with it. For that you don't deserve to be getting lottery money.
Daley Thompson -
Show me the country that has no strikes and I'll show you the country in which there is no liberty.
Samuel Gompers
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I'm rediscovering Scotland; I'm falling in love with it again.
Sam Heughan -
I went to Beijing for the Olympics and was literally right across the track from Usain Bolt. And when he gets to full stride, for every two steps the other guy's taking, he's just taking one.
Wendell Pierce -
I have to be working, doing things. That's the way I grew up and the way I was taught.
Karl Malone -
My first novel was turned down by half a dozen publishers. And even after having published five or six books, I wasn't making enough money to live on, and was beginning to think I'd have to give up the dream of being a full-time writer.
Ian Rankin -
I'm usually working on eight or 10 things at once.
Jack Prelutsky -
I feel it's tougher for the guys, because if I break up with them, then they can go on and be forced to watch me on TV every day. I don't see them.
Tamron Hall
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I think we must get rid of slavery, or we must get rid of freedom.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
I like the mix of something farmlike and something futuristic and artsy mixed together. It's kind of both my worlds.
Jeremy Scott -
You should be accumulating really great relationships throughout your career.
Anne M. Mulcahy -
I thank God every day that there was no YouTube or Twitter when I was a teenager. I would have had a channel, and it would have been mortifying.
Katherine Ryan -
Others have said it before me. If you don't have a seat at the table, you're probably on the menu. And so it is important that we have women in the United States Senate - strong women, women who are there to help advance an agenda that is important to women.
Elizabeth Warren -
What I've learned is, if I have to go out and speak, the best way to get people's attention is to tell them a story, tell them a story that came from my corazón.
Sandra Cisneros