Sandra Cisneros Quotes
I realize that it's like spices in the kitchen. I need that turmeric. I'm sorry, but cinnamon isn't going to substitute . I feel that I can teach my listener about a new word they can use too. "Well, what words are part of my own community, even if I'm monolingual, that I'm not allowing myself to use in a public sphere?"Sandra Cisneros
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I don't think people really understood what I did. And you know, in my book, 'A Helluva High Note' deals with my back story, that I was a songwriter, that I spent years trying to hone my craft and being rejected and then finally becoming a successful songwriter, record executive and publisher.
Kara DioGuardi -
Science progresses best when observations force us to alter our preconceptions.
Vera Rubin -
Initial excitement over the announcement that Enbridge was building a pipeline to Kitimat dampened considerably when people discovered that the number of permanent jobs for locals, in the end, would amount to some dock workers.
Eden Robinson -
It's very scary to me that people actually think we should just follow our leaders. If we can't learn from our history, we're nowhere.
Natalie Maines -
The worst... was what the Pakistani soldiers did to the Bengali women after their failed rebellion.
Iris Chang -
I have long been interested in exploring and advancing the valuable relationships between the arts and society.
Damian Woetzel
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There is so much misinformation out there. If you give people even a little bit, it gets blown out of proportion then you have to go put out fires. So it's much easier to say, 'No comment.'
Oren Peli -
In the John Paul II days, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger had the advantage of staying in his cupboard - the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith - exchanging views only with the Pope, and speaking publicly only through carefully written missives on doctrinal issues.
Carl Bernstein -
To be able to live and train in Iraq under these circumstances you need to be brave.
Dana Hussein -
Whether I'm critically well received, whether or not I sell books - of course it becomes progressively harder to get them published - nevertheless, it's what I do, every day.
Tama Janowitz -
Take pride in exactly what it is you do and remember it's okay to fail as long as you don't give up.
Dan O'Brien -
If I do something, it's always 90% obvious and 10% unknown.
Felix Baumgartner
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Ask the right questions if you're to find the right answers.
Vanessa Redgrave -
I can no more think of my own life without thinking of wine and wines and where they grew for me and why I drank them when I did and why I picked the grapes and where I opened the oldest procurable bottles, and all that, than I can remember living before I breathed.
M. F. K. Fisher -
It's not 2038 that Social Security is bankrupt. It's now.
Gary Johnson -
Probably my mother. She was a very compassionate woman, and always kept me on my feet. And I think part of it is just the way you are, the way you're raised. And she had the responsibility for raising me.
Ed Bradley -
I think it's more important to be fit so that you can be healthy and enjoy activities than it is to have a good body.
Rachel Blanchard -
It's so great to show up at work and truly enjoy every word you say.
Ian Somerhalder
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Fischer, the great American chess champion, famously said, 'Chess is life.' I would say, 'Pi is life.'
Daniel Tammet -
Parenting, as an unpaid occupation outside the world of public power, entails lower status, less power, and less control of resources than paid work.
Nancy Chodorow -
Let the awe [the teacher] has upon [children's] minds be so tempered with the constant marks of tenderness and good will, that affection may spur them to their duty, and make them find a pleasure in complying with his dictates. This will bring them with satisfaction to their tutor; make them hearken to him, as to one who is their friend, that cherishes them, and takes pains for their good; this will keep their thoughts easy and free, whilst they are with him, the only temper wherein the mind is capable of receiving new information, and of admitting into itself those impressions.
John Locke Nazareth -
My dad saw my husband's boss at a conference, and he said to stop paying my husband until we produce children.
Jenna Bush -
Running is not, as it so often seems, only about what you did in your last race or about how many miles you ran last week. It is, in a much more important way, about community, about appreciating all the miles run by other runners, too.
Richard O'Brien -
I realize that it's like spices in the kitchen. I need that turmeric. I'm sorry, but cinnamon isn't going to substitute . I feel that I can teach my listener about a new word they can use too. "Well, what words are part of my own community, even if I'm monolingual, that I'm not allowing myself to use in a public sphere?"
Sandra Cisneros