Sandra Cisneros Quotes
Generally if you're a daughter in a Mexican family, no one wants to tell you anything; they tell you the healthy lies about your family.
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I think it's very refreshing to see women in cinema having strength and their own independent storyline.
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To receive everything, one must open one's hands and give.
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Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
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It was really impossible to break through in Russia. We couldn't buy any balls. We really didn't have any courts, no rackets, nothing. And no people to practice with.
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Questions are a burden to others; answers are a prison for oneself.
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I try to widen the horizons of every child I meet, and part of that is promoting diverse forms, be it graphic novels, stories told in a narrative voice, or more translated books, as well as more diverse writers and more diverse characters.
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I think the dot-com boom and bust represented the end of the beginning. The industry is more mature today.
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Most important thought, if you love someone, tell him or her, for you never know what tomorrow may have in store.
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Work is that which you dislike doing but perform for the sake of external rewards. At school, this takes the form of grades. In society, it means money, status, privilege.
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Work hard. I got tenure a year early. Junior faculty members used to say to me: 'Wow, what's your secret?' I said: 'It's pretty simple. Call me any Friday night in my office at 10 o'clock, and I'll tell you.'
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Society puts so much pressure on girls to look a certain way.
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Should you be so unfortunate as to suppose you are a genius, and that 'things will come to you,' it would be well to undeceive yourself as soon as possible. Make up your mind that industry must be the price of all you obtain, and at once begin to pay down.
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I'd love to do a Broadway show, but I can't because of the style I sing.
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I like dirty boys. Mechanics, construction workers, artists who get paint and clay everywhere. They gotta have rough hands.
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I like to stay home with my family. But travel is good in a way. It makes you redefine each other each time you see each other. Also, it helps that I think my wife is the hottest woman in the world.
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In fact history does not belong to us; but we belong to it.
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But in the next world I shan't be doing music, with all the striving and disappointments. I shall be being it.
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I think every actor wants to be an FBI or cop at one point.
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Alas, time and head injuries are stealing all my memories.
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Il n'y a que deux sortes d'hommes: les uns justes, qui se croient pe cheurs; les autres pe cheurs, qui se croient justes. There are only two types of people: the virtuous who believe themselves to be sinners and the sinners who believe themselves to be virtuous.
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The national debate on health-care reform wildly misses the mark, with Democrats and Republicans alike arguing about who's going to pay rather than about what would actually make people healthy.
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O God-Man present in this sacrament for me - what a comfort, what a privilege to know I kneel before God! And to think that this God loves me!... Mary, my mother, help me to love him in return.
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And our wise Father in heaven knows when we're going to need things too. Don't run out ahead of Him.
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Generally if you're a daughter in a Mexican family, no one wants to tell you anything; they tell you the healthy lies about your family.
