Sandra Cisneros Quotes
I am one who leaves the table like a man, without putting back the chair or picking up the plate
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The economy is not immutable; it's not about natural laws. It's about rules, and we make the rules.
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By the time I approached my forties, I had the self-assurance to approach all the genres I love so deeply: R & B, rock, jazz, and pop.
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Everything is tennis for me, it's my career and it's entertainment, but it's also a business.
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I think it's the responsibility of a major opera house not only to cultivate debate and get people thinking, but also to be interfaced with things that challenge them. To challenge its audience and not just deliver things that they know, even though some of those things are wonderful.
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I am totally a fringe candidate, and so is Bill Weld: you know, two Republican governors serving in heavily blue states, outspoken, small government guys, outspoken on the social liberal side. We're fringe, totally. We're fringe.
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We employ the mind to rule, the body to serve.
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Marriage isn't always cupcakes and Jesus juice, but it's important to show each other your marriage is a priority and that you still love them.
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I think feeling bitter or angry is really useless.
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My son is a hip-hop producer.
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The reason why books endure is because there are enough people who like them. It's the only reason why books last.
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In the Andes and the Alps, I have seen melting glaciers. At both of the Earth's Poles, I have seen open sea where ice once dominated the horizon.
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When you do well at an audition, it is the highest high you can achieve because you just beat yourself. You became whatever it was, for a minute. It's a great feeling when that happens.
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What is the world at its best but a little round field of the moving pictures with two walking together in it?
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Years of love have been forgotIn the hatred of a minute.
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Now was the present, now was the time containing that sweet union of carbon, oxygen, hydrogen, spirit, will and imagination named Nancy.
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The world has arisen in some way or another. How it originated is the great question, and Darwin's theory, like all other attempts to explain the origin of life, is thus far merely conjectural. I believe he has not even made the best conjecture possible in the present state of our knowledge.
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I'm excited about Los Angeles because I believe in her. I believe in her destiny. I think that the fact that we have so many different people from so many parts of the world is a big reason why L.A. is the city of America's promise.
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Silence and solitude are more distracting to me than chatter and commotion.
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I don't want to treat my fans like they are stupid.
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The writing process isn't something I'm in love with. I'm an illustrator who writes.
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Your heavenly home was bought for a price, and that payment results in a title deed that can never be lost through foreclosure.
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Only men of considerable vanity write books; consistently therewith, I worried lest the world were exchanging an irreplaceable author for a more easily purchased diplomat.
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But let them sleep, Lord, and me mourn a space.
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I am one who leaves the table like a man, without putting back the chair or picking up the plate
