Carlos Gonzalez Quotes
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Although I grew up as a fan of the culture from the disco D.J. era as a young kid and hearing the beginnings of hip-hop, I'm hearing it all from another borough in Brooklyn.
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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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Say what you want about long dresses, but they cover a multitude of shins.
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John Sayles is good. He's like a good thoroughbred owner - he leaves the trainers alone.
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Someone like Amy Poehler, I don't know, but I feel like I know her. I think everyone feels like they know her.
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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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It is weird. A lot of people try to ask me political questions. I'm not a politician.
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When I want to understand what is happening today or try to decide what will happen tomorrow, I look back.
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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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What do I want in a good fantasy book? Court politics and social interactions based around houses and cities. Powerful women and devious men. Drama and action with emotional ramifications. Frocks. Kissing. Swords. An intense impression of history in the world-building.
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While pride sometimes instills courage and perseverance in the pursuit of hazardous enterprises, it is always an evil counsellor in determining whether a proposed objective is expedient or not.
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It's never been seen that a street artist go as far as I've gone - keep consistent without wanting to do a bunch of ventures outside of music to keep my face out there.
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He [Gen. Douglas MacArthur] was a great thundering paradox of a man, noble and ignoble, inspiring and outrageous, arrogant and shy, the best of men and the worst of men, the most protean, most ridiculous, and most sublime.
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I just want to stay creative, share my ideas and see where it all leads.
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I want to call him right now and tell him about it. It's an honor.
