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

• 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

• I've always had an idealistic streak about storytelling in that I believe we owe more to audiences than repeatedly bludgeoning them over the head while stealing their lunch money. We owe them inspiration. That's why I'm more interested now in creating new heroes than hooking up jumper cables to old ones.

  

  Mark Frost
  • Believe
  • Money
  • Inspiration

• You just need to be honest with how you're feeling. But, a lot of women are afraid of it because they think, 'Oh, they are going to take my baby away. They're gonna call me incompetent. I'm going to lose my job. I've got to be tough, it's a man's world.'

  

  Marie Osmond
  • World
  • Women
  • Job

• The biggest threat that we face right now is not a nuclear missile coming over the skies. It's in a suitcase. This is why the issue of nuclear proliferation is so important. It is the - the biggest threat to the United States is a terrorist getting their hands on nuclear weapons.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Important
  • Why
  • Terrorist

• When we started out doing YouTube videos, I think we were very, very early on in terms of people doing a behind-the-scenes component.

  

  Freddie Wong
  • People

• Creating a new word was a deliberate move. ion

  

  J. M. Roberts
  • New
  • Word
  • Creation

• 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