Elizabeth Borton de Trevino Quotes

Now I had lived long enough and had heard enough from urchins my age and from other slaves, to distrust the person who calls himself merciful, or just, or kindly. Usually these are the most cruel, niggardly and selfish people, and slaves learn to fear the master who prefaces his remarks with tributes to his own virtues.

Elizabeth Borton de Trevino

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• I try and find fun activities like mountain biking, hiking, or water sports for a workout rather than pushing weight in the gym.

  

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• Community colleges are one of America's great social inventions a gateway to the future for first time students looking for an affordable college education, and for mid-career students looking to get ahead in the workplace.

  

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• If you want to talk about cultural appropriation, we have to go back to the Greeks.

  

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• No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.

  

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• Whether it's 'The West Wing' or anything else, my first thought is always, 'What's a good story?'

  

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• I work in a small study on the top floor of a brownstone in Brooklyn - it's about 75 square feet, 11 taken up by book shelves along one wall.

  

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• A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's really attractive.

  

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• I had the idea that it would be wonderful to be a physicist or a mathematician maybe 500 years ago around the time of Newton when there were really fundamental things just lying around to be discovered.

  

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• Then I came up with this crazy idea just to walk out on the stage with no band at all and just start singing whatever came to mind. I actually fought the idea for a while because it seemed almost too radical, but it became obvious what I was supposed to be doing.

  

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• I didn't want to be known as Madonna's playboy, her boy toy.

  

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• Country music is about new love and it's about old love.

  

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• Never keep a line of retreat: it is a wretched invention.

  

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• We like to take impossible things and actually make them happen.

  

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• I want mainstream artists to accept Latino artists as equals without us having to sing in English.

  

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• I think feature film can be quite conservative, because you have to now get audiences to come out, and it's quite a hard thing to do. Of course, television can be conservative too.

  

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• When I was young, I assumed that authors must have traveled the world or done exotic things in order to tell great stories.

  

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• You know, even people who talk about cutting spending and they go 'That's not the spending that I was actually talking about that you're supposed to be cutting.' Well, we have to be looking across the board.

  

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• I like being a strong, independent woman, and to be honest, I was never afraid to be on my own.

  

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• Keep your eye on the ball.

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• It's so hard to do fittings [for Yeezy] because we want to do things that are inspiring, that people could look at and say, "Wow, I like that color palette, I could put that together." And there are so many images of things that it's almost impossible to have your clothes go up against the amount you're seeing and carry it into one language.

  

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• Now I had lived long enough and had heard enough from urchins my age and from other slaves, to distrust the person who calls himself merciful, or just, or kindly. Usually these are the most cruel, niggardly and selfish people, and slaves learn to fear the master who prefaces his remarks with tributes to his own virtues.

  

  Elizabeth Borton de Trevino
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  • Age
  • Enough