Sandra Cisneros Quotes
One way to get very humble is to dedicate the work you're going to do to your community.
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One of my earliest memories is of my father carrying me in one arm with a picket sign in the other.
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My idols are Janis Joplin and Annie Lennox, who are neither of them from the typical pop culture.
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I don't think you should always stay calm in a tense situation, because you might not ever confront the problem. Maybe it's better to actually let yourself be tense - and find a solution.
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I am a professional photographer because it is the best way I know to earn the money I require to take care of my wife and children.
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Education is so important.
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I'll give you my worst nightmare. I'm dreaming that I'm onstage, the curtain goes up, and I have no idea what my lines are or what's going on. I think I should know, I kind of know, I remember rehearsing... and the audience is there waiting.
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Children, old crones, peasants, and dogs ramble; cats and philosophers stick to their point.
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What I don't like to hear in music is something has not been thought through: that a sound is just there randomly. I want to make sure that every single little noise that's in my song is there because it's supposed to be there.
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One of the stranger things about me is that I was raised as an Orthodox Jew. I went to a yeshiva until I was thirteen years old and spoke fluent Hebrew.
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If a literary man puts together two words about music, one of them will be wrong.
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'Islamism' itself is such a broad and nearly meaningless word as used by the mainstream Western press, including everything from Turkey's AKP party to al Qaeda.
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There is no job description for the first lady and she's only there because her husband got elected president.
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I could have lived off all the male careers in my family. Everybody was always getting ovations, but I was in the wings.
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I am a contrarian.
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One of the greatest lessons of my own life was learning to turn the inner rampage of hatred and anger toward my own father for his reprehensible behavior and abandonment of his family into an inner reaction more closely aligned with God and God-realized love.
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I'm happy with my commercial heroine tag.
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I would have quit before I went rock-n-roll. I know one way, and that's natural, and when I can't make it, I'll come home and stay. I believe in my music.
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Now there is one outstandingly important fact regarding Spaceship Earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it.
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Good cheer is no hindrance to a good life.
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I stayed on my own path and did not follow the herd. I made a way for myself.
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I feel like certainly there are people expecting 'Looking' to be representative of everyone that's gay, the entire gay community. And it's a dangerous expectation to come in watching the show expecting that. Expecting that out of any show.
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Ours has been a special relationship for a long time and I'm really happy about coming back and playing.
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Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
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One way to get very humble is to dedicate the work you're going to do to your community.
