Homaro Cantu Quotes
If you look at, you know, the limitations of creating new products, you're only limited by the technology that you have to work with.
Quotes to Explore
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I think the fact that I made enough noise in the world that I might be remembered is an amazing achievement. You can't ask for more than that.
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I thought, I need to reinvent myself. I want every day of life to be wonderful, fascinating, interesting, creative. And what am I gonna do to make that happen?
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At my age it is unseemly to be pessimistic.
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Tell me, why is the media here so negative? Why are we in India so embarrassed to recognise our own strengths, our achievements? We are such a great nation. We have so many amazing success stories but we refuse to acknowledge them. Why?
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Can you imagine me coming to this country to blow up a post office? I told them, 'My bombs are my books.'
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When you're dealing with music without words, titles are more a means of identification than anything else. What's the point of getting lofty?
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I didn't get lessons of any kind I slept through school.
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I'm much softer than people think. I don't present to the world an emotional face. I'm pretty good at self-control, but I am easily moved.
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Love the giver more than the gift.
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If I had to compare myself to another artist, I wouldn't. I feel like my lyrics are really strong. I'm good at painting pictures and telling picture stories.
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'Triumph over tragedy' - how pathetic! I think people are generally freaked out that I'm multifaceted. You don't hear people saying, 'Gwyneth Paltrow won an Oscar - and she's blonde!'
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I take a lot from everywhere. I take from music, architecture, novels, and plays. Anywhere that hits you.
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My god-father, Bob Wall, was in a couple of Bruce Lee movies, and he trained Bruce Lee when he came to America.
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In all of my books, I really want to work with working-class people. My goal is to show the moments of grace and dignity in their lives.
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I'm not going to change; I'm very stubborn in this way. I am what I am.
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What's wrong with us isn't a rap sheet of bad deeds, but a damaged heart, a soul-sickness, that plunges us into fearful self-protection, alienation from God and others.
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I'm a writer and a feminist of color, and I've written complex, powerful women for my entire career. I'm just one voice, but there are many others like me.
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I keep mementos from everything I've done. I've got my cab driver's license from 'Happiness.' I've got a pair of glasses and a belt buckle from playing John Lennon. I've got a pair of sunglasses from playing Andy Warhol... It's all in a box in the garage.
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Jail was a result of me not taking time for myself. So I was forced to take some time for myself.
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If anyone makes trouble I've advised him to dot him one on the jaw in the best British style.
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In India, we kind of concentrate only on weight loss. I want to teach people that it is very important to be strong and fit, rather than just thin.
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Whitney proved to be a competent manufacturer, but wasn't an original inventor to any important degree. Thomas Blanchard was a true genius: his stock making machine was the daddy of all the industrial profiling machinery, like the 1870s universal milling machine, that was the especial American contribution to machining technology. By that time, the British conceded that machinery innovation had shifted to America.
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Today it is becoming increasingly apparent to thoughtful Americans that we cannot fight the forces and ideas of imperialism abroad and maintain any form of imperialism at home. The war has done this to our thinking.
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If you look at, you know, the limitations of creating new products, you're only limited by the technology that you have to work with.
