Sandra Cisneros Quotes
You get good at being by yourself and you're condemned to a life sentence of solitude. You think, "Wait a minute! I should have been a tap dancer or something". But in my life, I feel like I take my stories to people orally.
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The Constitution isn't written in Chinese, Swahili or Sanskrit. It's in plain English.
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I was never conscious that I was becoming an icon or I'm not an icon, because my family, my kids, my husband keep me down-to-earth.
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I love working the legislative process.
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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
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It's still going on. I guess it will be until Redmond quits, dies or is jailed.
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It gets pretty boring when all you are is the support system for a male character.
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It is a remarkably easy thing to do, pointing out the faults of others and suggesting remedies or courses of action in an argumentative and pedantic sort of way, and I am still amazed that there are many people in the American media who are paid very big money to do this.
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In India, by and large, women are not educated enough to be bread winners and, within the moorings of traditional cultures, do not have the courage and the capacity to leave the matrimonial home. Given the inequality prevalent in family structures, the woman's right to opt out is suicidal.
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May God protect me from gloomy saints.
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I'm happy. I give thanks every morning that I can get up, that I still have my husband with me. I'm extremely grateful. After all, how many 93-year-old cover girls do you know?
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I knew boxing before I knew anything else.
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No one in my family has been observant for generations, but we all identify with being Jewish.
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I won't be making any friends in the corporate suites.
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The Israeli public is frustrated with the way it is portrayed abroad.
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I'm trying to learn from various corners of the world.
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Bruce Weber is an amazing photographer, and Carine Roitfeld's style - and everything she does - is gorgeous.
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John Wayne treated me fine, but that macho stuff turns me off. It's not real.
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If you're really a rapper, you can't stop rapping.
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Since almost all Negroes are workers, live on wages, and suffer from the high cost of food, clothing and shelter, it is obvious that the Republican and Democratic Parties are opposed to their interests.
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I never knew anybody . . . who found life simple. I think a life or a time looks simple when you leave out the details.
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Because he (the Sage) opposes no one, no one in the world can oppose him.
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When I found this opportunity to answer the ad, I got the job and I've been there ever since.
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I'm big into not drawing conclusions for people. I think that's what makes for the most exciting, compelling films. I get bored when the politics of the filmmaker are the subject of the film that I see.
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You get good at being by yourself and you're condemned to a life sentence of solitude. You think, "Wait a minute! I should have been a tap dancer or something". But in my life, I feel like I take my stories to people orally.
