Laura Esquivel Quotes
There are still some natural forces that everybody understands. Technology and industry have distanced people from nature and magic and human values.
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The next phase of the journey is to move from speculation to actual use cases - people getting into Bitcoin because they want to use it.
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A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it.
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The world is too violent right now.
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When companies get big, they slow down. They're not as exciting. If you want to get something done, it takes a lot of time and a lot of meetings.
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For me, the greatest good fortune I have being raised by actors is I came in knowing that a career is the ebb and flow.
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Being a 911 operator means balancing seemingly contradictory skills. On one hand, operators have to be fanatically precise and well-organized. On the other, they must be able to establish rapport with panicky callers.
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When you actually fall in love, no one sees that other person the way that you do.
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I developed my training routine going into my senior year at Jackson State. I found this sandbank by the Pearl River near my hometown, Columbia, Miss. I laid out a course of 65 yards or so. Sixty-five yards on sand is like 120 on turf, but running on sand helps you make your cuts at full speed.
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I arrived in California with no job, no car, and no money, but, like millions of other girls, a dream.
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I'm a rabid Steelers fan: I'm originally from Pittsburgh. So if the Giants or Pittsburgh are playing, the rest of Sunday is all about food and football.
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I don't spend a lot on holidays, but have been very fortunate to travel extensively through doing various challenges around the world. The best place I've ever been is Argentina.
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Drama is easier to do because you just have to have the emotion and not get caught acting, but comedy is much harder.
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Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.
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I started acting when I was seven. And I went to a local drama school which is very well-known in London. Because of that, I started getting jobs, and I worked all the time as a child, pretty much non-stop.
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Social Security is too vital to be lumped into backroom budget talks where the views of ordinary Americans risk going unheard.
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I happen to be the kind of reader who, if I like something, I don't want it to end.
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Everyone has a temper. A temper is an emotion.
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My mom was on welfare and the occasional food stamp, but I have never participated in any of those governmental programs, even the ones that kind of work like education, scholarships and whatever, and I managed to do just fine.
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A major stimulant to creative thinking is focused questions. There is something about a well-worded question that often penetrates to the heart of the matter and triggers new ideas and insights.
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I am well aware that a painting must inevitably be a bizarre, incomprehensible thing.
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I like a film that makes the audience feel like they are in the middle of life as it is moving, and in a way, they are catching up. They are thrown into things.
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Make no mistake: Obamacare is a pro-death 'health' program.
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Real travel is not about the highlights with which you dazzle your friends once you're home. It's about the loneliness, the solitude, the evenings spent by yourself, pining to be somewhere else. Those are the moments of true value. You feel half proud of them and half ashamed and you hold them to your heart.
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There are still some natural forces that everybody understands. Technology and industry have distanced people from nature and magic and human values.
