Laura Esquivel Quotes
It wasn't books that inspired me to write. For me, inspiration was simple, immediate: I got it from eating, dancing, talking. I got it from life lived, things touched, from sensuality, from love of life, from our irrefutable connection to the earth.
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Ninety percent of the comic books I've written in the past had little or nothing to do with Islam.
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When I was in high school, I was really into string theory and superstring theory and read 'Scientific American.' It's fascinating.
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The horror genre is my personal favorite. But then again, I was the kid who read coroner books for fun.
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If the Russian nuclear arsenal was fired at the United States and other targets, and we fired back at them with thousands of nuclear weapons, it would be the end of life on earth.
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Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.
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Celine Dion is my major inspiration.
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I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.
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We don't want to be treated any differently, and we want to continue with our lives and our careers.
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Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.
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Truth never damages a cause that is just.
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When you hear people making hateful comments, stand up to them. Point out what a waste it is to hate, and you could open their eyes.
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We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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I will always do what I can to help others, but when I retire, I want to be a dad and a husband. I want a house and a dog in the yard. I want to have barbecues.
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As I view the Republicans in Congress, I don't see them as a real reflection of many Republicans in our country.
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I've been working so hard, I'm about to have a Mariah Carey.
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When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.
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The family provides the army and navy with the best men and boys that it possesses. And, as we have seen, education and science too are becoming means to the ends sought by the military.
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Organized religious institutions are in for a huge transformation, for the simple reason that people have become genuinely religious in spite of them.
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Every weird thing about you is beautiful and makes life interesting.
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I've never understood musicians who don't enjoy doing promotional interviews. I just can't believe it. I always think, 'Your life must have been so brilliant before you were in a band.'
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Descartes may have made a lot of mistakes, but he was right about this: you cannot doubt the existence of your own consciousness. That's the first feature of consciousness, it's real and irreducible. You cannot get rid of it by showing that it's an illusion in a way that you can with other standard illusions.
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It wasn't books that inspired me to write. For me, inspiration was simple, immediate: I got it from eating, dancing, talking. I got it from life lived, things touched, from sensuality, from love of life, from our irrefutable connection to the earth.
