Eliseo Medina Quotes
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The artistic capability of reinforced concrete is so fantastic - that is the way to go.
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You know, there's always someone in mind when I'm writing. You know, it's all comes from somewhere inside.
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Whether it's pool or Ping Pong, I can't stand to have my kids beat me. Especially Ping Pong! And when they beat me, they just needle the devil out of me. That's fine. I'd rather have that than let them win a shallow victory.
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I bought an electric scooter in sixth grade. Bankrupted me.
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I have a lot of things to prove to myself. One is that I can live my life fearlessly.
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Novelists who pretend to understand what keeps them scribbling are really just guessing. A profound, unmet childish need to be acknowledged? Maybe. It hardly matters, though. The termite that asks itself why it keeps chewing risks becoming sluggish and inefficient, as does the writer who grows self-conscious in the middle of chapter five.
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I am extremely privileged to serve Rhode Island in the United States Senate, and that is my only goal and aspiration.
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The Internet is the best thing that could have happened to China.
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If evolution was worth its salt, it should've evolved something better than 'survival of the fittest.' I think a better idea would be 'survival of the wittiest.' At least, that way, creatures that didn't survive could've died laughing.
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I want to make pop cool again, and the only way I can do that is by being ambitious and grand.
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As a writer, I feel like your favorite character shouldn't be safe.
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The trouble is, I just don't know if I'm too human or not human enough.
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As a reader, when the writer gets sentimental, you drift, because there's something fishy going on there. You recognize a moment that's largely about the writer and the writer's own need to believe in something that might not in fact exist. As a reader, you think, 'Where did the story go? Where did the person I'm reading about go?'
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My Valentine's playlist... you're gonna have to play some Ginuwine. You're gonna have to play some 112. You're gonna have to play some Confession - Usher's - back in the day. You know, a little bit of Prince Royce there, too.
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It's time to bury the unreal, failed 'realism' of those who have long thought that dictators brought stability.
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The iPhone is like 'omakase', the style of sushi where the chef chooses what you're going to eat, and might even tell you how to eat it - no wasabi allowed on this, no soy sauce allowed on that. Definitely no California rolls.
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If you don't work near a water cooler and hanker for the company of fellow natural history enthusiasts, 'The Blue Planet II Podcast' has Emily Knight and Becky Ripley enthusing infectiously about and delving deeper into the most recent episode.
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Words can't describe how one would feel in that moment after doing a test for something you really want but in your heart you don't think you have a chance of getting.
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You know how Bette Midler always says her obituary will read, 'Bette Midler dies. Started her career at the Continental Baths?' Mine will say 'Chris March died. He was on Season 4 of 'Project Runway.'' It's an amazing show, it did a lot for me, and I'm fine with it. Unless it becomes terribly disreputable.
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Democrats are the only reason to vote for Republicans
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The organized charity, scrimped and iced, In the name of a cautious, statistical Christ.
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We march in the streets, but we will also march to the voting booth in November.
