Rita Moreno Quotes
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My lessons didn't come at my father's knee. Like all good lessons, they were learned from example.
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The physics of water is central to cooking, because food is mostly water. All steak that you cook is actually boiled on the inside.
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We have the only cookbook in the world that has partial differential equations in it.
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There is something inherent in our democracy that tends to want to level. America is a little uncomfortable in the presence of someone who is distinctly superior in whatever way.
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It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.
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My father's death from prostate cancer in 1993 was tragic. He never complained about pain. He was a fighter. By the time he was ready to die he wasn't able to die in the way that he wanted to, which seemed an outrage to me.
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Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.
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It's very simple. You have to be faithful to your other half and not have secrets. That's my rule.
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Ignorance is the failure to discriminate between the permanent and the impermanent, the pure and the impure, bliss and suffering, the Self and the non-Self.
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The other day the President said, I know you've had some rough times, and I want to do something that will show the nation what faith that I have in you, in your maturity and sense of responsibility. He paused, then said, would you like a puppy?
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I think any actor should be aware of where they're starting to stretch into what's not truthful.
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I do think that there are certain parts, if you are lucky enough to play them, that are bigger than you, and they stretch you. I don't think you become a bigger person, but you develop certain muscles you didn't have before.
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Our competition for American business is no longer in the next county or the next state, it's around the world.
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Privacy and encryption work, but it's too easy to make a mistake that exposes you.
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We all have different perspectives on the world. I'm a woman. I live in Chicago. I'm gay.
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Separate inherently is not equal. There's a reason why $45 million was spent against marriage equality. It's because people understand the word does have meaning. And equality comes when we accept the same notions and the same institutions for everyone, regardless of race and gender and regardless of sex orientation.
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An old friend of mine, an economist by trade, once explained to me that the statistical definition of 'dilemma' is 49.9% in favor and 50.1% against. If the gap is greater, there is no dilemma, because the answer is clear.
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Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal which the reader recognizes as his own.
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I feel curious about every situation I'm in.
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It is the gift of seeing the life around them clearly and vividly, as something that is exciting in its own right. It is an innate gift, varying in intensity with the individual's temperament and environment.
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Tim is learning about his high tolerance of others’ inappropriate behavior and is beginning to get free of this often subtle form of mistreatment.
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It's one of the things I want people to understand about science... You don't have to be the best person in the world at it. But you can be good, and there are so many different opportunities in science.
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The great leaders of the second world war alliance, Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill, understood the twin sides of destruction and salvation. Their war aims were not only to defeat fascism, but to create a world of shared prosperity.
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Is there a grandmother that isn't spunky on television? Is there such a creature?
