Cassia Leo Quotes
Because sometimes you have to suffer without the things you want now so you can have everything you need later.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm a proud family man.
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I always enjoyed movies and in hindsight I realise how captivating they were to me.
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I've had to be tough my whole life.
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The one snack I really love is YoCrunch yogurt. It's like an apple pie in a cup! You have your apples on the bottom, your yogurt in the middle, and piecrust crumbs on top.
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The American landscape has no foreground and the American mind no background.
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My mom is painfully sweet; she's from Nebraska.
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When I was a kid, we never had a videogame in my house. But my cousin did, and each time I went to her house I was able to play 'Tetris' and 'Mario.' Those were the only two games I played as a child.
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These days politics, religion, media seem to get all mixed up. Television became the new religion a long time back and the media has taken over.
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If you take all the factories in the world today, they could make all the parts necessary to build more factories like themselves. So, in a sense, we have a self-replicating industrial system today, but it would take a tremendous effort to copy what we already have.
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I always have a lot of things going on because some things take years to make and others take five minutes. I like that there's always something going on. Working doesn't have such a momentous feel - like it's all or nothing.
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For a successful revolution it is not enough that there is discontent. What is required is a profound and thorough conviction of the justice, necessity and importance of political and social rights.
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I've been trying for some time to develop a lifestyle that doesn't require my presence.
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In 'The Violinist's Thumb,' I talk about the poignancy of cells leaking across the placenta into both the mother and the child.
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Frankly I'm fairly boring or fairly busy. Between writing and family, I have little time for anything else.
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Israel gives the West Bank water twice a week! One way of promoting good would be not to ration water.
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I absolutely don't dislike children - I would choose their company over adult company any time.
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People talk about the miracle of birth. No. There's the miracle of conception. I did IVF, but nothing happened. So I began to think of adoption, and then I got pregnant. It was definitely a miracle.
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Treat the Disease, Not the Symptom.
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I'm not auditioning to play convenience-store clerks. I don't see any benefit in that.
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Lacan, Derrida and Foucault are the perfect prophets for the weak, anxious academic personality, trapped in verbal formulas and perennially defeated by circumstances. They offer a self-exculpating cosmic explanation for the normal professorial state of resentment, alienation, dithering passivity and inaction.
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I am not at all for a feminism which is entirely separatist, which would say, "this domain is purely for women." I don't believe that at all.
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The only way to spend New Year's Eve is either quietly with friends or in a brothel. Otherwise when the evening ends and people pair off, someone is bound to be left in tears.
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The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind.
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Because sometimes you have to suffer without the things you want now so you can have everything you need later.
