Sandra Cisneros Quotes
That's why it's important to be multilingual, because it teaches you so much about your own language.
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He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit.
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I loved when my dad was home. He liked to sit in the living room and watch boxing and baseball on TV. Or he'd be tinkering around or listening to records by his musician buddies - George Shearing, Oscar Peterson and the Jackie Gleason Orchestra.
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It simply isn't acceptable for the likes of Google, Facebook, Amazon and others, which amass data by the terabyte, to say, 'Don't worry, your information's safe with us, as all sorts of rules protect you' - when all evidence suggests otherwise.
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I had a flip phone until I was 25, and I didn't use social media until that age, either.
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The Greek city-states politicised citizen and subject, creating institutions that were way ahead of anything in China or India. The politicians of antiquity exercised a political and military, if not economic, hegemony on the culture as a whole. The idea of democracy was first born and practised here.
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The imperial province should have a university, the prefectures should have colleges, and the counties should have day schools.
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I get used to my fountain pens and my clothes, and I can never throw them away. I replace them only when I see that they are broken or embarrassing to wear.
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I'm not in front of the camera, they are. I encourage them; I build up as much of their confidence and ego as possible. They've got to take control; I can't act it out.
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Winning the Oscar was like winning all the prizes in one single night that I never won as a kid.
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My most profound growth as a writer came when I joined an online critique group. What a harrowing, terrifying, wonderful experience that was.
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But some one will say that this supreme Being, who made all things, and those also who conferred on men particular benefits, are entitled to their respective worship.
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I've made far too many mistakes. That's the way I feel.
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I didn't want to get pregnant while commanding an assault helicopter company and, before I knew it, I was deployed and missed out on many of my childbearing years.
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In the White House, you can be on the pitcher's mound or you can be in the catcher's position. Put points on the board. Show people you can govern. Deliver on what you said you were going to deliver on.
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People come out of the mid-west and go to the Ivy League. I kind of reversed the direction.
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I just smoked a Cohiba the other day. It was great. You have to appreciate everything that cigar is.
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My music lives because of real players.
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My popularity plunged three years ago and I didn't try to court publicity.
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You're always growing as a coach, and I am not done growing, and hopefully I'm not done winning.
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I learn a lot about my poems when I read them by the way people respond to them.
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Everything I do is autobiographical in some way. 'Wayne's World' was me growing up in the suburbs of Toronto and listening to heavy metal, and 'Austin Powers' was every bit of British culture that my father, who passed away in 1991, had forced me to watch and taught me to love.
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That's why it's important to be multilingual, because it teaches you so much about your own language.
