Esmeralda Santiago Quotes

They have no achievements of their own. They've made nothing, created nothing, worked at nothing. They will leave no trace that they ever existed. They have no legacy except for their names, which they did nothing to earn.

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• Legacy does matter to me, and I want to leave a good one in MMA.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Good
  • Want
  • Matter

• Since mobile, indie and retro inspired games are built on a legacy of inequality in the medium the new wave of 80s and 90s nostalgia has brought with it a resurrection of the worst of the old-school damsel in distress stereotypes. Indeed, many of these new titles essentially function as

  

  Anita Sarkeesian
  • School
  • Inspired
  • Legacy

• My teaching is my legacy.

  

  Anderson Silva
  • Legacy

• I had been on another procedural show, 'Cold Case,' for seven years, and I certainly respected the legacy of 'Law & Order,' even though I had only seen a handful of episodes. Being a dad meant the reality was that I probably knew more about Dora and Diego. But I saw the show with fresh eyes, and I wasn't coming in with a bunch of baggage.

  

  Danny Pino
  • Reality
  • Law
  • Dad

• What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.

  

  Desiderius Erasmus
  • Legacy

• I don't think I deviated from what I'm all about and what I thought was important. Whether you want to call that a legacy, or whatever you want to call it.

  

  Joe Paterno
  • Important
  • Legacy

• When you're on the court, there is certain things that you would do that you wouldn't do off the court. When you get off, you obviously have to be gracious and a humble person. When you are on the floor, be a team player. Championships are what you are defined by - legacy. Go about things the right way.

  

  Kevin Love
  • Team
  • Player
  • Humble

• I am honored to be a Bond girl and be a part of the Bond legacy, To star in a video game with Connery, the original Bond, is incredible.

  

  Maria Menounos
  • Game
  • Girl
  • Star

• I've shown, for twenty-plus years, with a legacy that will be talked about way after I'm gone, that I am different.

  

  Bernard Hopkins
  • Different
  • Legacy

• Whenever I feel like I'm getting too far away from where I need to be, I think about my sons and the legacy I have to leave for them - and it always brings me back to reality.

  

  Dwyane Wade
  • Reality
  • Legacy

• The American model was celebrated by Thatcherites and New Labour alike, California worshipped as the model of the future, 'Anglo-Saxon' embalmed as the fitting metaphor for the shared Anglo-American legacy, Europe denigrated and the rest of the world ignored.

  

  Martin Jacques
  • World
  • American
  • Future

• We are a continuum. Just as we reach back to our ancestors for our fundamental values, so we, as guardians of that legacy, must reach ahead to our children and their children. And we do so with a sense of sacredness in that reaching.

  

  Paul Tsongas
  • Children
  • Legacy

• Even soldiers from the Vietnam War had said that when they were fighting in that war, the landmine was just one of any number of weapons to use in the fighting. It wasn't until they began to think about the aftermath and the legacy of landmines that they recognized the long-term, indiscriminate impact of the weapon.

  

  Jody Williams
  • Long
  • War
  • Fighting

• Finn doesn't have as much respect for Han's legacy as everybody else does, and Han finds that a bit charming. They team up and go on a mission together. The banter is very choppy, and the dialogue is pretty funny. Chewie enjoys the banter and the friction between the two, but they definitely have each other's backs.

  

  John Boyega
  • Up
  • Together
  • Pretty

• The 2012 Olympics is a fantastic incentive for everyone to help leave a sporting legacy and show that Britain is truly a great sporting nation.

  

  Bradley Wiggins
  • Great
  • Help
  • Legacy

• Klitschko was the reigning champion for a decade and regarded by many as one of the greatest heavyweights of all time. I'm never going to face another opponent with that legacy.

  

  Tyson Fury
  • Time
  • Champion
  • Legacy

• President Obama and Secretary Clinton created a vacuum the way they got out of Iraq, because they got out - what, they shouldn't have been in, but once they got in, the way they got out was a disaster. And ISIS was formed.

  

  Donald Trump
  • Way
  • President
  • Created

• My name, Diana Ross, is my name and nobody should be able to use that for exploitative purposes but me.

  

  Diana Ross
  • Purpose
  • Should
  • Able

• I'm thinking of a legacy that I can be proud of and wealth that my grandchildren can use to go to college. So world domination - in terms of providing for my family - is absolutely my goal.

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Family

• Captain Hammer is obviously the most fun to write because he is not so bright. And 'not so bright' is comedy gold. Not to mention 'kind of a...' Captain Hammer's high school was named after him. While he was still attending.

  

  Jed Whedon
  • School
  • Fun
  • High

• I believe that if you can discover something of the truth of a person, then you will start to understand, and to understand is to move towards, if not like, then at least an empathy of some kind.

  

  Rupert Friend
  • Believe
  • Kind
  • Moving

• The line between anime and regular animation is very difficult to cross, even for people who have been doing anime successfully for years.

  

  Yuri Lowenthal
  • People
  • Doing
  • Animation

• Beach volleyball has taken me all around the world.

  

  Brooke Sweat
  • World
  • Taken
  • Beach

• They have no achievements of their own. They've made nothing, created nothing, worked at nothing. They will leave no trace that they ever existed. They have no legacy except for their names, which they did nothing to earn.

  

  Esmeralda Santiago
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