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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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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The best way to listen to the album is to put it on, get some Moet, lay back with your boys, and kick it.
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I hope I did it the way my peers did it before me. I didn't do anything but try to play hard.
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On India rests the burden of pointing the way to all the exploited races of the earth.
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America isn't as lucky as you guys (Europeans), who for the most part have this quality of food that keeps you slim. We're over-eaters in the United States by nature, with fast food and all this kind of thing.
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Of journeying the benefits are many: the freshness it bringeth to the heart, the seeing and hearing of marvelous things, the delight of beholding new cities, the meeting of unknown friends, and the learning of high manners.
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Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way.
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One way to get very humble is to dedicate the work you're going to do to your community.
