Sandra Cisneros Quotes
When I'm starting to feel, "How many more people are there?" I go slower. I ask questions, and that person engaging with me gives me energy.
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I cannot summon up inspiration; I myself am summoned.
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If I just did music, I might go insane. I need words; I need stories. And it's the same the other way around.
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If I get to a place early in the morning, I try to walk around by myself. I still try to find cool places to go to, like a record store in St. Louis or some restaurant in Chicago.
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I'm easily entertained.
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To gain strength in our struggles, we must have a positive perspective of the principles in the plan of salvation. We must realize that we have a personal Savior whom we can trust and turn to in our times of need.
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I am a great believer that a captain is as good as his team.
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I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.
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Do you want to tear your life apart and get rid of everything you've known as a lifestyle? Like seeing your family? Being with your friends? A fishing trip? A hunting trip? A night's sleep?
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God takes care of imbeciles, little children and artists.
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I have a Rhodesian Ridgeback dog named Lola.
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The cruelest thing a man can do to a woman is to portray her as perfection.
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Just wearing all black comes from Johnny Cash. I'm on the road so much that if I wear all black, my clothes never get dirty. You can't tell if I've worn the same shirt twice.
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We who follow the Honorable Elijah Muhammad feel that when you try and pass integration laws here in America, forcing white people to pretend that they are accepting black people, what you are doing is making white people act in a hypocritical way.
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Our growing, robust economy is able to provide the average American citizen access to the best social program there is - a steady job.
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Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.
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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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I was walking around bored one day, and I started filming stuff with my cellphone. There are all these shows where people are trying to do these outrageous stunts, and I thought it would be funny to do all these stunts that aren't outrageous but then act like they are.
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Yes, there's a luck in most things; and in none more than being born at the right time.
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I'm thinking to myself, I just love doing the art, it takes me a morning to do.
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It is better to use fair means and fail, than foul and conquer.
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People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
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All I had to do was go out and perform. One of the hardest things was doing those back flips, where you had to jump up and land on the top rope. It's precision movement.
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Statehood for the District of Columbia is the most important civil rights and social justice issue in America today.
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When I'm starting to feel, "How many more people are there?" I go slower. I ask questions, and that person engaging with me gives me energy.
