Sandra Cisneros Quotes
I remember when they started publishing Latino fiction years ago. You had to be really good to get published. Now you don't have to be that good.
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Winning the gold medal should have been the happiest day of my entire life, and it just wasn't. It felt like the saddest day of my life. Everyone was so angry with us, that Scott and I had fallen in love, because it was so unprofessional, and we were a disgrace and had betrayed everybody.
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You, as an entrepreneur, must make sure the postmoney valuation is a number you can obtain. You don't want too high of a valuation.
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Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.
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I am blessed to have worked in big-budget films at an early stage of my career.
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Part of the way the work world works is not so much creating a separation between your work and your free time, but creating the illusion of a separation between your work and your free time. Every day is the weekend for me, which means I'm always busy.
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I wanted to experience New York, to look up and see buildings.
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I think the success of democracy is not really police security; it's the presence of a broad middle class. The stronger the middle class of a people is, the less you have to worry about one group coming in and exploiting the democratic process for its own ends.
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I don't normally take to Yorkshiremen.
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I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.
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Understanding where to be in your own zone really takes some time and development to learn.
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I had throat surgery. We had to check that out and make sure it wasn't cancerous. I had a polyp on my vocal cord, so I had that taken out.
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Action is the real measure of intelligence.
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Any item of clothing that covers the face and makes it impossible to identify individuals is open to abuse.
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Foreign universities have two aspects - content and brand. If we focus on the brand, we could lose out on the content. The idea is to focus on the content.
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We don't have to sit by while Trump uses his enormous global platform to undermine our national security. We would love to be able to actually force Twitter's hand to live up to its rules, explicitly forbidding hate speech and encouraging violence.
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All the modern christian churches have no more authority to preach, baptize, or administer any other ordinance of the gospel than the idolatrous Hindoos have.
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The amount of good luck coming your way depends on your willingness to act.
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I majored in political communications, so I intended to be a diplomat.
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Feminism is really the right of women to be full human beings and to not be defined only by their childbearing function. Feminism is really the right of women to be human beings. That's it, yet that's so frightening to a lot of people. A full human being wants satisfying work and love. A full human being is entitled to both, and is not simply defined by only one aspect of her being.
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Our ministry is debt free and we have not had to beg or plead for finances.
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Honesty is of God and dishonesty of the devil; the devil was a liar from the beginning.
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You go to a technology conference or an engineering conference, there are very few women there. At the same time it's a blessing in the fact that you do get noticed. People tend to remember you as the only woman in the room 'who said that', or the only woman in the room who was an engineer.
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Family and God - that is what's important. Money, cars, those are things that come and go.
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I remember when they started publishing Latino fiction years ago. You had to be really good to get published. Now you don't have to be that good.
