Sandra Cisneros Quotes
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The only thing that matters is what happens on the little hump out in the middle of the field.
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It is standard practice for corrupt leaders who are seeking a certain political outcome to hype or manipulate a terror threat or a threat of violent domestic subversion. While sometimes the threat is manufactured, frequently the hyped threat is based on a real danger.
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Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.
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Hindi films are so deceptive. I thought Mumbai was this big, grand, beautiful city with sea-facing flats.
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I cannot abide being bored.
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Look, all you can do when you find your niche is go with it.
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The thing is that pictures are everywhere. The question is what we don't see, and why don't we see so much. I just see it.
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I like an even-keeled, slow-paced job.
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When you're growing up, you realize you've got a lot of heavy things on your shoulders.
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Let me tell you that I love the United States.
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I adore anything Michael Alexis writes.
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For students today, only 10 percent of children from working-class families graduate from college by the age of 24 as compared to 58 percent of upper-middle-class and wealthy families.
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The modern rise of Alzheimer's Disease in the twentieth century is not a sign of failure. It's a sign of success. Success in living long enough to see that disease expressed.
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Stephen King has inspired me with his humor and honesty, and his admonition that the author's job is to tell the truth.
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You were born with compassion, only that also means that when people are cruel to you it cuts you deep. You won't understand that you have to walk right up to the ones who are being hateful and laugh in their faces and earn their respect. Instead you'll try to figure out what you did to make them mad at you.
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Your pictures would have been finished a long time ago if I were not forced every day to do something to earn money.
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If there is a lesson in our story it is that the manipulation, according to strictly self-consistent rules, of a set of symbols representing one single aspect of the phenomena may produce correct, verifiable predictions, and yet completely ignore all other aspects whose ensemble constitutes reality...
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As to judging our own time, and thereby gaining some basis for a judgment of future possibilities, we are doubtless not only too close to it to appraise it but too much formed by it and enclosed within it to do so.
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I think being open-minded about what Nature is trying to tell you is the key to being creative and successful.
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When you're thinking about building your own online dating profile, especially on OkCupid, you should go through the same steps you're thinking about when you're going out to meet someone new. You want to put your best foot forward.
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It has taken me most of my adult life to come to terms with who I am. To do that, I had to break free of attitudes that brought me down.
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As far as my opinion on galleries, I think they are a great thing. I see them as another outlet. I'm sure by now you've figured out that I do my work for everybody to see. That's the whole point.
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I'd have to say that my favorite thing is writing a song that really says how I feel, what I believe - and it even explains the world to myself better than I knew it.
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You know, we should have cards like the deaf have. "Can't talk, I'm writing today."
