Sandra Cisneros Quotes
Sometimes hearing the stories is going to change people's lives much more than if they read it.
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What you want to do is you want to own as little sort of hard infrastructure as possible, and your real value is your name and how you build that up.
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We have to challenge the whole idea that it's acceptable for a society like Britain to have such a significant number of people who do not work one day of the week and don't have any possibility of improving the quality of their lives.
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I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
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If you're a basketball player, you've got to shoot.
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We cannot therefore say that mental acts contain a cognitive as well as a conative element.
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I wanted to weave a green thread through the Conservative party; that's my job, and I signed up imagining that I would be in a very small minority within my party, possibly even on my own, battling away on these issues.
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A lot of cats in New Orleans, very soulful, very soulful musicians and they assume that they're singers. And they just make that assumption. And so when there's a little intonation problem, people are very forgiving of them because they heard how soulful they play.
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I grew up watching Salman Khan and Arnold Schwarzenegger, who have always juggled fitness with acting. In real life, I'm a fitness freak. Besides, it is nice to look at an actor who is fit, and if you become a role model, that's a perk.
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Why I got into music was James Taylor, so to see him be a real down-to-earth guy that's unbelievably talented... then to hear him sing those lyrics of 'What I'm Thankful For,' which is a song Ms. Yearwood and I got to write together, that was definitely a highlight of my recording life.
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Every sale has five basic obstacles: no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust.
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We must recognize and keep in the public consciousness the significant contributions and sacrifices Americans of every community have made that have helped forge the greatest country our world has ever known.
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My best friend is my husband.
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I would like to be more fit, but I don't think I will put on fat or gain weight for movie roles. I am not going to do that.
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If a State has reliable scientific information that demonstrates that a warning is needed for a particular food, then in the interest of public health, it should share that information with the FDA and petition for a new national standard.
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Religion has convinced us that there's something else entirely other than concerns about suffering. There's concerns about what God wants, there's concerns about what's going to happen in the afterlife.
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I think badminton has a real legacy with more youngsters taking up the sport. Badminton has done really well in that regard compared to other sports.
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It isn't a band. It's bigger than a band. It's a lifestyle.
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It has not been hard to grow older, because I believe if you have something you believe in, that will keep you alive far more than plastic surgery or Botox.
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You will go most safely in the middle.
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I was not surprised to wake up alive. I suppose one is surprised only when one awakens dead.
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Economic growth doesn't mean anything if it leaves people out.
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If people want a sense of purpose they should get it from their archbishop. They should certainly not get it from their politicians.
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No matter how corrupt and unjust a convict may be, he loves fairness more than anything else. If the people placed over him are unfair, from year to year he lapses into an embittered state characterized by an extreme lack of faith.
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Sometimes hearing the stories is going to change people's lives much more than if they read it.
