Carlos Gonzalez Quotes
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I want to go into science class and awaken that spark that makes learning possible.
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Sesame oil is probably my favorite condiment, period.
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Like a lot of Irish households we read a lot of Irish history. It was almost Soviet, raising the next generation with a mythic view of their history.
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I'd long wanted to write about that moment when a woman steps off the career track to have her first child. For me, that was a scary time.
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Honestly, at times, I still get bored. 'Dancing with the Stars' kept me busy, and that's what I like. When I first started fighting, I was working two jobs, and I was still going to school at the same time while training. I'm meant to be a busy person.
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John Sayles is good. He's like a good thoroughbred owner - he leaves the trainers alone.
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I've always had an interest in vampire films - not just 'Nosferatu,' but there are many others that I have enjoyed: Abel Ferrara, Coppola, Neil Jordan.
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The Taliban is the Muslim version of the Salem witch trials.
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Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.
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My parents aren't married. And one of the reasons why they never got married is because they had been married before, and they liked it the way it was. They didn't feel like they needed a piece of paper to be committed. So for me, I know that marriage is not a golden ticket.
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If the future, as imagined in literature, is really the present taken to extremes, then the past is also the present, but boiled down.
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In 2007 I was at Facebook, and we looked at some of the social networks in Asia, and they were full of games.
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I think that if you haven't been to the grocery store in a really long time, it's really easy to get very out of touch.
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My goal was always to be involved in music that would outlive me. And maybe that's actually happening.
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The only time to buy these is on a day with no 'y' in it.
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There's a limit to how much you can deploy renewables, like wind or solar. People will talk about getting up to 30 percent of America's power from renewables, but you can't get to 100 percent because of their unreliability.
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Best Buy is just too Western! They do not stock enough Chinese brands, and Chinese people do not want to buy foreign brands.
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I never wanted to write. I just wrote letters home from a kibbutz in Israel to reassure my parents that I was still alive and well fed and having a great time. They thought these letters were brilliant and sent them to a newspaper. So I became a writer by accident.
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The drummer is stereotypically the dumb guy. Maybe that's why I always respect drummers who do more than drum.
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I worry so much. Like, 'Damn, how can I be excellent?' But it's a journey.
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I have very little respect for Nancy Reagan. There is something about her that is very petty.
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I want to call him right now and tell him about it. It's an honor.
