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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States used to protect consumers from predatory lenders, but strong state usury laws were obliterated by a 1978 U.S. Supreme Court decision.
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I feel squeezed like a lemon - interviewers and people keep turning up unannounced at my office!
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The happiest youth, viewing his progress through, What perils past, what crosses to ensue, Would shut the book, and sit him down and die.
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True greatness does not consist so much in doing extraordinary things, as in conducting ordinary affairs with a noble demeanor and from a right motive. It is necessary and most profitable to remember the advice to Titus, "Showing all good fidelity in all things."
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Life at best is bittersweet.
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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.
