Carlos Bulosan (Carlos Sampayan Bulosan) Quotes
Men who had poetry in their soul come silently into the world and live quietly down the years, and yet when they are gone no moon in the sky is lucid enough to compare with the light they shed when they are among the living.
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When I had no money, I would find out which friend had work and money at that point in time and would go and stay with him for a week. All of us theatre guys did that.
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Leaders should always expect the very best of those around them. They know that people can change and grow.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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The lives of African-Americans in this country are characterized by violence for most of our history. Much of that violence, at least to some extent, you know, done by the very state that's supposed to protect them.
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I'm an honest, open father.
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If any human being is to reach full maturity both the masculine and feminine sides of the personality must be brought up into consciousness.
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We know what's in our Cheerios and in our retirement accounts because the law requires disclosure.
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It's not easy to play 162 games and be focused the whole time. It takes a lot out of you.
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Frankly, right is right and wrong is wrong, particularly when a parent is talking to a child. A bright line around moral responsibility is very important.
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I trained as a dancer when I was much younger, for a large amount of time, like 6 or 7 years. Not to be a ballet dancer, actually, but I thought it was a complement for an actor. I thought that actors should know how to move, should know how to juggle, should know how to do acrobatics.
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I love my job and I know I am very lucky but still, if you audition and you don't get it, it still affects you.
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I've known Bret Michaels forever.
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Europe has the technology, the strategic and economic might to defend itself.
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People in misery is what most important in art.
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Gas consumption is growing everywhere.
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There should be a place and the space for all pop.
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Twitter is the marriage of full-tilt narcissism and full-tilt voyeurism that has finally collided in 140 words.
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I don't know why black skin may not cover a true heart as well as a white one.
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There are moments of despair that come sometimes, when night sets in and a white fog presses against the windows. Then our house changes its shape, rears up and becomes a place of despair. Then fear and rage run simply--and the thought of Death as a friend. This is the simplest of thoughts, that Death must come when we call, although he is a god.
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Ethnicity should enrich us; it should make us a unique people in our diversity and not be used to divide us.
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I love the Scottish accent; it is very sexy.
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I lived in a world where social arrangements were taken for granted and assumed to be timeless. A child's obligation was to learn these usages, not to question them. The complexities of racial deportment were of a piece with learning manners and etiquette more generally.
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It's really hard to have your voice heard in a man's world. People are always comparing women and bringing them down - that, I'm completely against. We have an obligation as women to not pit ourselves against each other, because men are going to do it for us.
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Men who had poetry in their soul come silently into the world and live quietly down the years, and yet when they are gone no moon in the sky is lucid enough to compare with the light they shed when they are among the living.
