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.
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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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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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Long before folks fretted the demise of 'quantitative easing,' I fretted its existence. It proved the reverse of its image, an antistimulus, and we've done okay not because of it, but despite it.
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To be able to analyze plays and novels is so relevant to acting.
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We are so isolated in our own little worlds, in our own little geographies, that it's pretty hard to understand where someone else is coming from. And so I think that we have to really think about what that means as a country and, frankly, whether this segregation that we have is durable over the long run.
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One of the things that's exciting for me about this novel is that, to me, Brookland and The Testament of Yves Gundron were both, in certain regards, crypto-steampunk. They're both books that are interested in an alternate technological past that in fact didn't historically come to pass. If you were to ask me what my novels were about, I would say, well, these are novels about technology and how we relate to technology and what technology means.
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My message behind this album was finding the beauty in imperfection.
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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.
