Sandra Cisneros Quotes
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I was born in New York City. But my family moved when I was still an infant. Except for a year and half when we lived in Youngstown, Ohio, I grew up in small towns in Pennsylvania. I graduated from high school in Farrell, Pennsylvania.
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The digital revolution has also meant a revolution in access to information. This puts more power and knowledge into the hands of nonexperts.
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Act because you love to act.
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I've seen 'Silence of the Lambs,' like, fifty or sixty times. That's my favorite movie of all time.
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When I was single, I was down to $100 of power a year.
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Pioneers may be picturesque figures, but they are often rather lonely ones.
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I am joining the hundreds of thousands who shall be marching in the Virtual March on Washington to Stop Global Warming in order to demonstrate the concern that we all hold for the future of our planet and all the living things - flora, fauna, human and animal - that exist upon it.
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I've not conducted my life in the service of smallness.
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I like to record records in Los Angeles. It's less distracting than New York, where I was based.
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I will run against anybody.
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Whenever we think of Christ, we should recall the love that led Him to bestow on us so many graces and favors, and also the great love God showed in giving us in Christ a pledge of His love; for love calls for love in return. Let us strive to keep this always before our eyes and to rouse ourselves to love Him.
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When it's all said and done, I want to look back on my career and say I did numerous things.
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I've always danced. I've always been around it.
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I've always been a big fan of science fiction and of the worlds of the spiritual and the mystic.
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I'm dyslexic, I have attention-deficit disorder, and I've got something like a hereditary tremor.
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You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet.
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I am not a hero, O.K.? I am not a hero. I am a very ordinary person.
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And alien tears will fill for him Pity's long-broken urn, For his mourners will be outcast men, And outcasts always mourn.
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I grow gnomic. It is the last phase.
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What is art? Art talks about life; it's subversive.
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The tree is more than first a seed, then a stem, then a living trunk, and then dead timber. The tree is a slow, enduring force straining to win the sky.
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The way the mathematics game is played, most variations lie outside the rules, while music can insist on perfect canon or tolerate a casual accompaniment.
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I don't mean to suggest that our hometown was perfect. We never thought it was, even then. Hope was segregated, like the rest of the South. It had its share of human frailty and vice. But kids were taught, growing up, to respect the dignity of each individual. There was a genuine sense of community in Hope, that crossed income lines and in many ways, race as well.
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There's no perfect place, there's no wonderful utopia.
