Sandra Cisneros Quotes
I think my family and closest friends are learning about my need to withdraw, and I am learning how to restore and store my energy to both serve the community to the best of my ability and to serve my writer's heart.
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Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.
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In the age of the internet when everybody's a pundit, we're still gonna need somebody there to go talk to the colonels, to be on the ground in Baghdad and stuff and that's very expensive.
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There's nothing wrong with being anthropomorphic. That's how we understand the world.
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I want to stay alive. Yeah, I want to stay alive. I think that's the main thing. If there's a chance I can live longer, I want to do it.
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The electroencephalogram represents a continuous curve with continuous oscillations in which... one can distinguish larger first order waves with an average duration of 90 milliseconds and smaller second order waves of an average duration of 35 milliseconds.
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I'm so freaking competitive it's unbelievable.
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If you don't find time to meditate and get all that negative out, and if you don't have the right people being positive around you, this is a very scary job to have if you don't learn how to control your fear.
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I'm from New York. My grandparents were settlers of Long Island City. When they came here, there was no bridge, and they had to hire a boat across the river. They had a farm, and my grandmother had to go once a week to Manhattan to buy provisions - very primitive.
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That's a beautiful thing. The more successful you are, the more people are going to come and be a part of music.
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Measure your wealth by what you'd have left if you lost all your money.
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I had self-esteem issues into my early 20s.
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People don't think an athlete nowadays can have a team-first mentality and I do.
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Harvard was the most intimidating experience. I felt so out of my league there.
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The understanding of Syria's devastating civil war has been distorted by the immense danger and difficulty of covering it.
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Leadership must be likeable, affable, cordial, and above all emotional. The fashion of authoritarian leadership is gone. Football is about life. You can't be angry all day.
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I really like to please people, and I think it's a symptom of being an only child.
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Every citizen of this country should be guaranteed that their vote matters, that their vote is counted, and that in the voting booth, their vote has a much weight as that of any CEO, any member of Congress, or any President.
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Fill it up. I take as large draughts of liquor as I did of love. I hate a flincher in either.
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We must continue to step in and stand up to resist reckless rhetoric and actions in a peaceful and forceful manner.
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There is intersubjectivity woven into the very fabric of the Kosmos at all levels.
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We are not angels, we are merely sophisticated apes. Yet we feel like angels trapped inside the bodies of beasts, craving transcendence and all the time trying to spread our wings and fly off, and it's really a very odd predicament to be in, if you think about it.
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I believe that I was a dog in a past life. That's the only thing that would explain why I like to snack on Purina Dog Chow.
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I think my family and closest friends are learning about my need to withdraw, and I am learning how to restore and store my energy to both serve the community to the best of my ability and to serve my writer's heart.
