Sandra Cisneros Quotes
I had to learn quick, because I was performing in Cinco de Mayo festivals with babies crying and people lifting their beers, and you know the feather dancers would come, and they'd say, "What are you, a poet? You're next".Sandra Cisneros
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If women would today would rise en masse and demand their emancipation, the men would be compelled to grant it.
Victoria Woodhull -
To have a songwriter that wrote so specifically what I felt to be true... I've never been much of an actor either. If something is real for me, then I can do it.
Barry McGuire -
I support many organizations that I feel are doing the right thing, like Alonzo Mourning's foundation, Alicia Keys' foundation, the Make-a-Wish Foundation, and other well-established foundations. I kick out a lot of time and money wherever I can.
Queen Latifah -
I saw Mercury Prize-winners Alt-J for the first time recently, touring their debut album 'An Awesome Wave,' and I'm still riding the high: they're the most musically dynamic and exciting band to have poured tune into my lug holes live since Bellowhead.
Dan Stevens -
As a developing musician, skiffle became a platform for me to start playing music.
Van Morrison -
The mud is cold when you're in the north of Scotland!
Tahar Rahim
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I'm not a god - I do bad things.
Jackie Chan -
Chile's mines are very dangerous; the country has a lot of earthquakes.
Patricia Riggen -
Show me the country that has no strikes and I'll show you the country in which there is no liberty.
Samuel Gompers -
In the '70s, my playing was completely untutored, but it sounded good to me, and I tried to find ways to make those very simple things work in more ambitious contexts.
Walter Becker Steely Dan -
Rag paper, containing hemp fiber, is the highest quality and longest lasting paper ever made. It can be torn when wet, but returns to its full strength when dry.
Jack Herer -
Sometimes people think Y Combinator has big ideas about themes. But really, we just fund the best startups.
Sam Altman
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That's what makes writer's block so painful. You think the well has run dry, maybe somewhere in the heavens the tap has been turned off. That's beyond frightening.
Taiye Selasi -
Governments have monopolies on certain things, like eminent domain and deadly force.
P. J. O'Rourke -
I use a lot of film images, analogies, and imagination.
Carlos Fuentes -
The inherent purpose of American government is let people seek their own goals and to encourage them to be responsible on the various adventures they have on their way to those goals, good, bad, and otherwise.
P. J. O'Rourke -
The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.
H. L. Mencken -
I have watched a number of Megastar Chiranjeevi garu's films after becoming an actress.
Kajal Aggarwal
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I've been around low-income people all of my life. I mean, growing up, low income, the community where I've chosen to live, low-income.
Danny K. Davis -
When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work, because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that my dear friend, is the beginning of the end of any nation
Adrian Rogers -
Impetus is a power of the mover applied in a movable thing which causes the movable thing to move after it is separated from its mover.
Leonardo da Vinci -
We all want our children to be terrific, but you can't force a child into being what you want it to be.
Dean Devlin -
When I went to Los Angeles right after high school, I got some acting jobs, and I never, ever wanted to be an actress! Public speaking and acting make me want to vomit. But I have never been nervous singing. When it comes to public speaking, I stumble on my words, sweat, and pull at my clothes.
Kelly Clarkson -
I had to learn quick, because I was performing in Cinco de Mayo festivals with babies crying and people lifting their beers, and you know the feather dancers would come, and they'd say, "What are you, a poet? You're next".
Sandra Cisneros