Sandra Cisneros Quotes
I can't go to Hindu countries where they respect rats and mice, and I can't go camping. I don't like to go into subways, because I always see them. Rats are like my naguales kindred animal spirits. They follow me.
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A couple of times, I felt like I was cracking and I couldn't go on, and God would put another person in my place to help me.
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What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.
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I would lie in bed, and I was nine years old, and say to myself: 'I want to be the richest man in the world.' I've come a long way from there.
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You know you've been around a long time when your stuntman says, 'Yeah, my grandfather doubled you.'
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There are different types of bullying; one of the biggest ones out there right now is cyberbullying. I had the privilege of filming an 'Austin & Ally' episode centered on cyberbullying, how it can get out of control, the ups and downs that you feel, and how to deal with it.
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I know it's silly, but I still think I'm 28.
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Those who put their lives on the line overseas are undoubtedly American heroes, but it's time for us to remember that those who serve in civilian life also embody the American spirit and are worthy of our praise as well.
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That's what heroic stories do for us. They show us the way. They remind us of the good we are capable of.
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It doesn't bother me because I can tell everyone to kiss off.
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It's time for women to wake up, to use the power of the vote, to honor the suffragists who chained themselves to the White House fence so that women could vote.
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My mom was a ventriloquist and she always was throwing her voice. For ten years I thought the dog was telling me to kill my father.
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Guys will definitely settle for women who get the joke. But a woman who can make you laugh? It's not high on a guy's must list. Perhaps it should be.
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Because for whatever reason, even though I want to stay home all the time and be left alone, I want to tell the world who I am now.
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It is the queen of architecture. Other buildings may be as famous, but no other is so consistently admired for a beauty that is seen as both feminine and regal. Many people feel that to class Taj Mahal as architecture is a mistake: it is both too personal and too magnificent.
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How could this great land of plenty produce too few people in the last 30 years?
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A weak invention of the enemy.
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'suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.'
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Studio 54 made Halloween in Hollywood look like a PTA meeting.
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If the players understand and accept that their leader is steering their direction through thoughtful, careful measures, then they will pull together to give the best effort every time.
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The gift of sobriety is clarity and a sense of connection - and travel only enhances that.
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I think, I think we need a Republican president from the real world to remind ourselves sometimes of what we need to do.
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The people I grew up around, almost all of them had been born and raised in the South. And, you know, they didn't always go to church, but they lived their lives as if God were watching everything they did.
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Freedom is contagious. That's why despots fear it so much.
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I can't go to Hindu countries where they respect rats and mice, and I can't go camping. I don't like to go into subways, because I always see them. Rats are like my naguales kindred animal spirits. They follow me.
