Sandra Cisneros Quotes
I live in a town that's two and a half hours from the border. I know people who have lived in San Antonio for generations, sometimes seven generations, their families are from there, and they are of Mexican descent, and they've never gone farther than the border.
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For me, if I'm just killing time, I play solitaire. I'm also guilty of playing Snood. I like games where I can shoot balls and match colors.
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Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy.
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I never really address myself to any image anybody has of me. That's like fighting with ghosts.
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No good actor ever stops learning. He is constantly evolving.
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All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
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I love all my scoop children. But consistency and persistence is really my aim.
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Roman's wife Sharon Tate had been murdered by Charles Manson the year before, but Roman had been through so much leaving the Warsaw ghetto that he was very strong and private.
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I found the happiest woman in America is between 50 and 55, is happily married, has made significant progress in her career, and lives in a community where she can easily exercise outside. But the most important single thing was she had her last child before she was 35.
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In 1916, Universal Studios released the first filmed adaptation of Jules Verne's novel '20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.' Georges Melies made a film by that name in 1907, but, unlike his earlier adaptations of Verne, Melies' version bears no resemblance to the book.
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I am ashamed to run against a lady. It's demeaning, very degrading. I have always refused to argue with a lady.
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Like many people, most Libertarians feel empathy and sympathy for less fortunate people. But they know you can't have perfection in a world of limited resources.
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The Loire Valley is grossly underestimated. The prices are fair, and the wines are real.
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There is a fascination with the idea that one has 'seen someone else do something' before one can achieve it. Maybe that's true in some cases, but clearly it is not a requirement. I knew what I wanted to do.
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After coming to India, I have felt the loneliest I have ever been in my life. I don't have a support system here.
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I don't try to be sexy, but I do want to look as good as I can.
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Women are more likely to have sex and fall in love, which can be tough because that's not the way men work.
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Tell a man that he is putting on a stage performance in order to get what he wants, and he will irritably reject your observation. Why? Because most people go through life as cunning actors with a permanent horror of getting found out.
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If China wants to be a constructive, active player in the world economy, it's got to respect intellectual property rights or it makes it pretty impossible to do business with them.
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The older I get, the more I embrace my own idiosyncrasies.
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Why would you envy a man who doesn't know the names of all the planets, is a 'high functioning' sociopath, and has no friends? Because Sherlock Holmes thinks in all the ways we wish we could.
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I always think I'm going to record a lot on tour but it's always hard to fit it in the schedule, and there's a whole lotta' other extra curricular activities that happen on the road.
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In many ways, not fitting in has been a comedic asset and a comedic resource.
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My major aim in writing is to set out flags and issue wake-up calls.
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I live in a town that's two and a half hours from the border. I know people who have lived in San Antonio for generations, sometimes seven generations, their families are from there, and they are of Mexican descent, and they've never gone farther than the border.
