Celia Cruz Quotes
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New Zealanders have conventions and pleasantries, but we are direct. We are encouraged to be transparent with our behavior and not to employ passive aggression.
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I think that when we look at something that's well acted and a story that's well told, it allows us to be a mirror of who we are as human beings and as a culture, and offers a glimpse of where we're headed.
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My father felt that his world of ideas was too liberal for traditional rabbinical teachings, and he looked for a chance to find a way in life.
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Truth is on the side of the oppressed.
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I was not a rebellious teenager. I was a sit-in-your-room teenager.
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I think it's been hard for people to understand how Islam can be a good religion, and yet the Islamists are evil. Those of us who have had experience with Islam understand this, just as we understand the difference between snake handlers and people going to church on Sunday morning.
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I've been through periods where I haven't worked and would have paid someone to give me a job - I think that's really helped me feel very grateful to have a job, even when I have a call time of 3:30 A.M. My mom laughs when I text at 4 A.M saying, 'I love my job.'
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The thing I like to do most is shop.
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There's nothing more powerful to a showrunner than a truly invested writer.
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Acting is a form of confusion.
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Sometimes I feel it would be nice to have a bit more privacy.
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Religion is inwardly focused and driven only to sustain itself.
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Holiness is the architectural plan upon which God buildeth up His living temple.
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Of the many ways in which Donald J. Trump is disrupting American politics, one of the most compelling is his disregard for the established rules of communicating with voters.
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Even a total and universal disarmament does not guarantee the maintenance of peace.
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I'm a former insurance regulator. What companies really want and need is some clarity about what the rules are.
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One of the reasons I didn't really want to do TV earlier in my career was because it is so life-consuming, and I wanted to spend time with my kids and be a mother.
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Today, it's very tempting to create songs by cutting and pasting in the studio.
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Failure can teach you something, and as long as you're moving very, very quickly, you're going to start piling up the wins. Speed gives you the luxury to be able to fail.
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When you love someone so much that you are in pain when you are apart it ends up being destructive. I never want to be in that place again.
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The songs I've written that are the strongest, I'm like: 'I don't know where that came from. It just kind of popped out.' You feel you can't take a whole lot of credit for it. I didn't purposefully will it into existence.
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Which came first - the observer or the particle?
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One of things I write about a lot is the role of women. An older friend of mine said that she feels like there's always a tension between wanting to be free and wanting to be cherished. I think that's one of the things that my whole book speaks to, wanting to break out of the confines of the roles that are prescribed for women and yet at the same time, not wanting to be totally free. You want to have intimate relationships. It's that bursting out of confinement.
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Forgiving is not forgetting. Forgiving is remembering without pain.
