Laura Esquivel Quotes
The only way we'll know where we're going is to look at the past and to remember who we were through ceremonies and rituals.
Quotes to Explore
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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I'll tell you, in my life I've never once have seen a Hispanic panhandler, because in our community, it would be viewed as shameful to be out on the street begging. Those are all conservative values - faith, family, hard work, responsibility.
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Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.
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Dementia is, after all, a symptom of organic brain damage. It is a condition, a disorder of the central nervous system, brought about in my case by a viral assault on brain tissue. When the assault wiped out certain intellectual processes, it also affected emotional processes.
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I don't know how to say no, and that's a weakness.
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There's monsters in all of us, but there's also vulnerability.
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I've been married twice. Most women would rather not be married to a traveling blues singer.
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There's a lot of people who feel there's a tabloid journalist who had it coming.
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I grew up in the South and went to church a lot.
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It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.
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I'm so happy with 'Grease' and 'Xanadu,' particularly because of the music in both films.
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I'm no angel, but I'm no monster, either.
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I love going to the cinema. Whenever I get time off, that's where I go.
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The philosopher proves that the philosopher exists. The poet merely enjoys existence.
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I decided to build a studio in my house. We built it in my basement kitchen. I had the drummer up by the fish tank. I was in the toilet singing. The bass player was out by the shelves in the living room, and the guitarist was on the couch by the telly.
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The very provision of benches by the council or the corporation acknowledges the human need to be private in public, to be conspicuously idle, to have nothing better to do.
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Rohinton Mistry's celebrated novel 'Such a Long Journey' was pulled off the syllabus of Mumbai University because local extremists objected to its content.
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If the French noblesse had been capable of playing cricket with their peasants, their chateaux would never have been burnt.
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You have to be your biggest believer.
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I'm the last person to ask 'what do you remember' from a particular time period... I like to learn from the past... not 'live' in it.
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If we each take responsibility in shifting our own behavior, we can trigger the type of change that is necessary to achieve sustainability for our race or this planet. We change our planet, our environment, our humanity every day, every year, every decade, and every millennia.
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We find in the history of ideas mutations which do not seem to correspond to any obvious need, and at first sight appear as mere playful whimsies - such as Apollonius' work on conic sections, or the non-Euclidean geometries, whose practical value became apparent only later.
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The secret of life is to appreciate the pleasure of being terribly deceived.
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The only way we'll know where we're going is to look at the past and to remember who we were through ceremonies and rituals.
