Sandra Cisneros Quotes
I think one of the great primordial fears we have once we become conscious of our aloneness as children is the fear of losing our mother. We have that from the moment we realize we can lose her just in the supermarket. As a child, it was more terrifying than arithmetic.
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I like the way hip-hop is now. It's grown up enough so that it can get involved with politics if it feels like it.
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I don't really love to perform in music. Some people like it more, but it's not my thing so much, but just the writing, when you get the lyric, and the lyric just goes just the right way, or you find the right bridge that takes you to the solo, and those moments are tremendous, and it's difficult to portray.
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You only mature when you face problems you can't deal with.
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War triggers unforeseeable military dynamics and sets off massive political shocks, creating new problems as well as new opportunities.
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At any Maroon 5 concert, you'll see a room backstage marked 'yoga.'
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I didn't hang around films. I don't know if I'd ever seen Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes.
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It's a 360-degree sound experience. Like you're in the middle of the band. A lot of people have the technology to play the format, so why not put it out there. It sounds great.
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Bullies always have another target.
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By definition, startups are not constrained by the limits of established company culture. And so they push boundaries and develop new technologies and ways of doing things.
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I hear my songs being sung by females before I change them and make them into my voice.
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As a heart surgeon I am on constant call, and when not researching or giving lectures, I like to be with my family.
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I have matured a lot.
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Bin Laden is dead. Al-Qaida eventually will die. But the model that al-Qaida has created of an asymmetric terror group that has enormous consequences in the world well beyond the size of the group, that's going to endure. Other groups are going to try to follow that model.
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By giving people the power to share, we're making the world more transparent.
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It's really important to teach people how to get food, how to grow it, how to pick it, how to prepare it and what's safe to eat.
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I always modeled my game after the guys from Miami. Chad Ochocinco, Santana Moss, Andre Johnson. I used to love Roscoe Parrish as a returner.
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Congress did a good thing back in 1995 in passing the Deep Water Royalty Relief Act. That act did a simple thing. It provided automatic royalty relief for new leases for 5 years in the deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico.
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As the stars make more and more money - one person gets $12 million, $14 million, $15 million, $20 million - everyone else is expected to work for peanuts. And that includes some extraordinary actors who are, today, working for peanuts because the production companies have decided they don't need to pay these people, and they don't.
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When I got into the film business, my aim was to adopt a positive persona, of a guy who fights against injustice. And it saved me, because my acting was atrocious to say the least!
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One day you will kiss a man you can't breathe without, and find that breath is of little consequence.
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You are lost the moment you know what the result will be.
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It's made me cynical at a young age to see how overlooked certain groups I've admired are.
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I like to wear clothes that I will wear when I am an old lady.
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I think one of the great primordial fears we have once we become conscious of our aloneness as children is the fear of losing our mother. We have that from the moment we realize we can lose her just in the supermarket. As a child, it was more terrifying than arithmetic.
