Sandra Cisneros Quotes
Revenge only engenders violence, not clarity and true peace. I think liberation must come from within.
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It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it.
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I don't think I have a signature.
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I have to admit that I can't take a whole fig and eat it on its own as I would a peach or mango. It's just too much.
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I'm quite intuitive about what I pick. Often it's to do with what I've just done and how I'm feeling.
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They have all different names for music. I think the music I'm going to change the style with is going to be really, really big-years and years after I'm gone.
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Thinking of possibilities is like driving a car on a freeway. You have an open road that stretches endlessly before you where your thoughts are not shackled. But when we say 'impossible,' we have already reached a dead-end in our minds. So dwell on possibilities to open up your horizon.
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You've got to be yourself, and if you're not, you're a phony. It comes shining through if you're not careful.
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If you could go back and change things, you might not be the person you are right now.
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You know, there's a lot of activism that doesn't deal with empowerment, and you have to empower yourself in order to be relevant to any type of struggle.
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At first I didn't even realize she was pregnant. I kinda gotten used to her throwing up every time we had sex...
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For a woman, the typical danger emanating from the unconscious comes from above, from the 'spiritual' sphere personified by the animus, whereas for a man it comes from the chthonic realm of the 'world and woman,' i.e., the anima projected on to the world.
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Politics is a game of compromise.
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I was a drummer and I played the guitar.
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Jung Chang was the first person to tell a grand historical, political story through a personal narrative.
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Somebody once asked me what my theory of life was, and I said, 'Don't try.' That fits the writing, too. I don't try; I just type.
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I do not expect that homeopathy will ever be established as a legitimate form of treatment, but I do expect that it will continue to be popular.
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We all fantasize about a relationship we'd like to do over or something we'd like to change about our past. I think there are a lot more opportunities for second chances in our lives than we think.
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You know within three seconds if you're going to have a history with someone - it's a long half-hour if you've got it wrong.
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If I wasn't a golfer, I would still be miserable - but not as miserable.
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I know one gay ex-Mormon who is a talented, self-destructive alcoholic. Whenever he is drunk and going on a tear, we are back to the Mormon Church and his being thrown out of the Mormon Church and growing up with this sense of being evil.
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You’d make an enemy out of me over a human?” The word “human” might as well have been “rodent.
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Great theatre is about challenging how we think and encouraging us to fantasize about a world we aspire to.
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Before you speak, listen. Before you write, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you invest, investigate. Before you criticize, wait. Before you pray, forgive. Before you quit, try. Before you retire, save. Before you die, give.
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Revenge only engenders violence, not clarity and true peace. I think liberation must come from within.
