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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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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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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I get better roles in television. I'm not going to do a lesser role just to be in a feature film.
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One of my heroes growing up was Jackie Robinson. My mom, an ardent baseball fan from whom I got my love of the game, had an old baseball card of his from the 1950s and told us his amazing story of courage in integrating baseball.
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As far as I'm concerned, all politicians are fake people.
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It's nice to have some distance with your family. As long as you're closer to them by love.
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Public humiliation comes to us all, and never so surely as when we're just a little bit pleased with ourselves and feel, just for once, that everything is going our way.
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NBA games are exciting to watch and have global appeal. They are very popular in China. I do watch NBA games on television when I have time.
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I get better roles in television. I'm not going to do a lesser role just to be in a feature film.
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Is there a grandmother that isn't spunky on television? Is there such a creature?
