Sandra Cisneros Quotes

Your prospective employer, or the person you have a crush on, or the person you want to talk to. You're judging yourself, you know, thinking about your listener. You're not thinking about what you're saying. And that same thing happens when you write.

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• I don't know in the world why anyone would consent to be a king, and never to be left to himself, but to be worried and wearied and interfered with from dark to daybreak and from morning to the fall of night.

  

  Lady Gregory
  • World
  • Why
  • Night

• The willingness and ability to live fully in the now eludes many people. While eating your appetizer, don't be concerned with dessert.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • People
  • Live
  • Eating

• I grew up playing basketball and baseball. I've always been active because my dad played professional football, so sports and working out have always been a part of my life.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Life
  • Up
  • Dad

• A high-quality public education can build much-needed skills and knowledge. It can help children reach their God-given potential. It can stabilize communities and democracies. It can strengthen economies. It can combat the kind of fear and despair that evolves into hatred.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • God
  • Children
  • Help

• If you go back and look at the early promos for Gears 1, you'll see just how different the characters were from the actual first game, both in appearance and background. And it's an evolutionary process.

  

  Karen Traviss
  • Different
  • Game
  • Look

• When you grow up starving, you cannot point with pride to a book you've just spent six hours reading. Picking cotton, sewing flour bags into clothes - those were the skills my father grew up appreciating.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Up
  • Book
  • Father

• We firmly believe the environmental issues cannot be addressed without extensive public participation, but people need to be informed before they can get involved.

  

  Ma Jun
  • People
  • Believe
  • Environmental

• The irony is that the more we fight age, the more it shows. Paint on a 50-year-old face brings to mind a Gilbert and Sullivan comic figure. Smooth the cheeks, and suddenly the ear lobes and hands look out of place. Do we run around in October, painting the gold leaves green?

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • Mind
  • Age
  • Painting

• Since I started acting, I had to quit a lot of bad habits. I've tried to stop biting my nails, because people always look at your nails during auditions. Truth be told, I still have a 'cheat nail,' but I've been cheating less and less.

  

  Callie Hernandez
  • People
  • Truth
  • Bad

• I also have a soft spot for spicy chicken wings. They are always best eaten at dives and sports bars, like Wogie's in the West Village, New York City, near my house.

  

  Gail Simmons
  • House
  • City
  • Best

• I love to sing and I really love to write, but in terms of being onstage, I'm not that comfortable, which I think is sort of clear.

  

  Lana Del Rey
  • Love
  • Think
  • Comfortable

• If you declare Crocker's Rules, other people don't need to worry about being tactful to you. (You still need to worry about being tactful to them - Crocker's Rules only work one way.)

  

  Eliezer Yudkowsky
  • People
  • Work
  • Worry

• Aggressive female icons have been chronically demeaned... It's fine for male artists to be angry - they're encouraged to outwardly express their aggression - but women? I've been painted as an aggressive Feminazi because I'm blunt, stubborn, independent, forthright.

  

  Lydia Lunch
  • Women
  • Independent
  • Angry

• Technology investment drove growth in the 1990s, both directly and by fueling a rising stock market that led to increased consumer spending.

  

  Alex Berenson
  • Technology
  • Growth
  • Stock

• Not everyone is going to like what you do or what you have to offer; however, if you can't see yourself doing anything else, and you have the drive and ambition, get the training and go for it.

  

  Kristin Chenoweth
  • Training
  • Ambition

• I'm still auditioning and doing other movie parts, but I really like the developing and the writing. You have more control over your destiny.

  

  Alex Borstein
  • Writing
  • Movie
  • Control

• Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war, on whose stage of death and pain only remain standing the negotiating table that could and should have prevented it.

  

  Pope John Paul II
  • War
  • Death
  • Question

• Thirst for victory leads to defeat; not tiring of defeat leads to victory.

  

  Yamaoka Tesshu
  • Victory

• True faith means holding nothing back; it bets everything on the hope of eternity

  

  Francis Chan
  • Hope
  • Faith
  • Mean

• It's when you're true to yourself that resonates with other people.

  

  Keegan-Michael Key
  • People
  • True

• It's nice to squash people's expectations.

  

  Lauren Mayberry Chvrches
  • People
  • Nice

• We live in an age when it is cheaper to buy the rights to movies than to make them.

  

  Hayao Miyazaki
  • Age
  • Rights
  • Cheaper

• Your prospective employer, or the person you have a crush on, or the person you want to talk to. You're judging yourself, you know, thinking about your listener. You're not thinking about what you're saying. And that same thing happens when you write.

  

  Sandra Cisneros