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 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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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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Me and my sisters all have such different body types.
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I think probably songwriters are gonna be the toughest critics... I think of it as a community. And we all sort of feed off of each other.
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As an old man...looking back on one's life, it's one of the things that strikes you most forcibly-that the only thing that's taught one anything is suffering. Not success, not happiness, not anything like that. The only thing that really teaches one what life's about...is suffering, affliction.
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It's about time we stopped buying things we don't need with money we don't have to impress people we don't like.
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It is in everybody's interest to seek those [actions] that lead to happiness and avoid those which lead to suffering. And because our interests are inextricably linked, we are compelled to accept ethics as the indispensable interface between my desire to be happy and yours.
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I just feel that the East and the West are two different worlds. I sometimes get saddened when I see that very few writers of color are published or reviewed in East Coast presses and magazines.
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I need nothing. I seek nothing. I desire nothing.
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Because sometimes you have to suffer without the things you want now so you can have everything you need later.
