Sandra Cisneros Quotes
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Hip-hop is rich in musical allusion. It takes something that already existed, respects it, and reuses it.
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There is a serious tendency toward capitalism among the well-to-do peasants.
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The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.
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As feminism becomes more integrated into mainstream publications and conversation, I feel weary of an obsession of celebrity culture masquerading as activism or as conversation or action. It's clickbait.
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Teach For America would not be able to continue recruiting and developing an ever-more diverse and impactful group of corps members and alumni if the nation's leading colleges become even less diverse.
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I just don't tend to cook eggplant at home.
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If a company knows it may have to pay a large amount of money if it poses an unreasonable threat to others, it will have a strong incentive to act better.
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'LazyTown' is on a mission to move the world to be a healthier place. When we get kids moving, we get their families moving. And when families move, we are one step closer to moving the world. Move the body, move the mind, every day.
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I live in England, so I take a lot of trains, and you can't really go anywhere without somebody talking on their mobile phone behind you, forcing you to listen to their conversation. With the Internet, with texting, with networking sites, there's already information everywhere.
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It is tough to say what has influenced me the most because I know that Mozart makes me think better, but you cannot beat Dave Matthews for feeling good!
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I have no literary fears.
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It's not what you achieve, it's what you overcome. That's what defines your career.
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In my opinion, Christian Dior was never, ever theatre.
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I've always believed that the things middle class families struggle with around their kitchen tables should define my work in Washington.
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I think that the idea of having a different approach to every single one of my albums is so exciting to me. I never want to make the same record twice. Why do it? What's the point?
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Charter laws do something really important. They give educators the freedom and flexibility that they need to attain results. But we also have to invest a lot in the leadership pipeline to take advantage of that freedom and flexibility.
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This is how I feel about the LGBT community: they are people just like us.
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I had been singing since I was 3 years old, so my love of singing was always there.
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We only see things coming and going, we need food, we need water.
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Art and commerce are not irreconciliable, they are inextricably intertwined.
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And at that point, I think my experience in covering the subject helped me. I think editors felt comfortable with the idea of me telling this story because I had demonstrated that I know this business pretty well.
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Strength of character does not consist solely in having powerful feelings, but in maintaining one’s balance in spite of them. Even with the violence of emotion, judgment and principle must still function like a ship’s compass, which records the slightest variations however rough the sea.
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When you have a flourishing of the economy you have a flourishing of the arts.
