Rigoberta Menchu Quotes
Let there be freedom for the Indians, wherever they may be in the American Continent or elsewhere in the world, because while they are alive, a glow of hope will be alive as well as a true concept of life.
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We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.
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The earth laughs in flowers.
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My mum was a child minder, but now she fosters. My dad was in the police force, and now he's a private detective.
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Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.
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My English teachers gave me a copy of Atwood's 'The Handmaid's Tale' when I left high school, which has always been very special to me - it was the novel that introduced me to dystopian fiction. I'm also influenced by Edgar Allan Poe, Dickens, John Wyndham and Middle English dream-visions.
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War triggers unforeseeable military dynamics and sets off massive political shocks, creating new problems as well as new opportunities.
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Writers are always critical of themselves and I'm no exception. I always feel that maybe I could have done better.
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I have long been interested in exploring and advancing the valuable relationships between the arts and society.
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My grandfather worked in a shoe factory - he was an Italian immigrant. My father was the first to go to college in the family.
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I think there needs to be a way to allow people to become educated if they've paid taxes, they've been here a long time. And I think, actually, we need to think about young people are not making the decision on whether to come here.
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Before you start a business, careful planning is in order to obtain to where you ought to be. The biggest part is to ensure that, once you might have created your own plan, that you simply take motion. Without motion, you are unable to succeed.
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The secret of happiness is to find a congenial monotony.
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Sometimes I read a really good script, and I just know that it's not a good fit.
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My least favorite subject? Uh... I didn't have a least favorite subject because, I mean, high school is so much fun.
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Women are called upon to defend every bit of progress we have made against particularly virulent attack. But we must also hold out a vision, put forth a positive agenda of what women need and want and then move forward toward that dream.
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I am just back from South Sudan, one of the world's most fragile nations. For years, I have been moved by the kind people who maintain hope that they will live to see peace. My heart has ached for them, as they have endured pain and violence that make such hope feel out of reach.
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Frankly, I thought we would have lost the House by now.
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In your teens, you get the physical puberty, and between 28 and 32, mental puberty. It does make you feel differently.
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The Affordable Care Act has been designed to provide health security by driving competition, lowering premiums, and protecting families.
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I wanted to be as comfortable in that environment as she was. I moved around those areas in character.
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I was taught from a young age that many people would treat me as a second-class citizen because I was African-American and because I was female.
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Every age has found some alternative to American values appealing. The number of Western intellectuals enamored of fascism and all the various expressions of Marxism was legion.
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Throughout history, independent minds have carried mankind forward. Whether they identified how to make fire or manufacture tools, develop rational philosophy or create man-glorifying art, pioneer scientific knowledge or invent the electric light, independent thinkers have created the goods on which human life and prosperity depend.
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Let there be freedom for the Indians, wherever they may be in the American Continent or elsewhere in the world, because while they are alive, a glow of hope will be alive as well as a true concept of life.
