Sandra Cisneros Quotes
Everything that I write comes when it wants to, out of its own need and it dictates its form. I don't say, "I am going to write a novel."
Quotes to Explore
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Magneto wants to cope with the difficulties thrust upon him by society and by his own nature.
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The problem of the world today is the people talk on and on about democracy, freedom, justice. But I don't give a damn about democracy if I am worried about survival.
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I've always liked street lights, and I've always photographed them. I probably have a collection of two to three thousand photographs of them, just around the city, mainly at night.
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I went to bed last night dreaming of tuna melts. I love food.
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I've had the experience of having a book praised but then it doesn't sell. Or not praised but then it sells.
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Millions of people are married. I've never picked up a paper and seen a headline that says, Man Gets Married!
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I got into politics because businessmen should be spending your money.
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I have to accept the fact that, no matter what I do, it's going to annoy someone.
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Hillary Clinton almost got to be president. The reasons why she didn't become president had to do with bad judgments about how to handle the early caucus states, which is not a gender-specific trait.
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Conflict is very much a state of mind. If you're not in that state of mind, it doesn't bother you.
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I'm concerned about my daughter because she will not believe in Santa Claus. No matter what I say to her, she just doesn't buy it, and she's 2. I refuse to give it up. I say, 'There is a Santa Claus,' and she says, 'Okay, Mommy. In pretend world, right?' She really doesn't believe.
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My thinking has always been that the worst problem we have with regard to lack of inclusion is the terribly low labor force participation rates and terribly high unemployment rates of young men, especially young men in ethnic minority groups and, in particular, young black men.
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I keep on 5 to 10 pounds above my jeans weight, as the ultimate no-filler-needed refresher, and buy a size up on jeans.
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My dream role would be to act with Denzel again!
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I like doing things where I can get dirty, work with my hands, and use power tools. Last weekend, I did some grouting.
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All bad qualities centre round the ego. When the ego is gone, Realisation results by itself. There are neither good nor bad qualities in the Self. The Self is free from all qualities. Qualities pertain to the mind only.
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I mark the reading of 'Look Homeward, Angel' as one of the pivotal events of my life. It starts off with the single greatest, knock-your-socks-off first page I have ever come across in my careful reading of world literature.
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Lenin was the first to discover that capitalism 'inevitably' caused war; and he discovered this only when the First World War was already being fought. Of course he was right. Since every great state was capitalist in 1914.
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Verum ubi pro labore desidia, pro continentia et aequitate libido atque superbia invasere, fortuna simul cum moribus immutatur. Ita imperium semper ad optimum quemque a minus bono transfertur. (II)
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Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.
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Ulta is a great place for our vendor partners to experience growth.
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And so she lived…hopefully…ever after.
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Man is the metre of all things, the hand is the instrument of instruments, and the mind is the form of forms.
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Everything that I write comes when it wants to, out of its own need and it dictates its form. I don't say, "I am going to write a novel."
