Esmeralda Santiago Quotes
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How about a little noise. How do you expect a man to putt?
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I had no student friends to talk to about literature. My tutor was a really nice man, very charming - but he had no literary judgment.
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To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.
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Go West, young man.
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Man is priest, and scholar, and statesman, and producer, and soldier.
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The American Dream is that any man or woman, despite of his or her background, can change their circumstances and rise as high as they are willing to work.
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A true man hates no one.
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Ben Franklin may have discovered electricity- but it is the man who invented the meter who made the money.
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Love is so holy, so confusing. It makes a man anxious, tormented. Love, how can I define it?
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I am a man who is noble. I have a good heart, but at the same time, I'm a little malicioso. There's no way of hiding that side.
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If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.
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A lazy man works twice as hard. My mother told that to me, and now I say it to my kids. If you're writing an essay, keep it in the lines and in the margins so you don't have to do it over.
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I have shed many tears of pain and indignation.
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Stevie Wonder is just one of those guys that completely delivers everything that you want to be true about Stevie Wonder. He's an amazing human being, and the fairytale exists with that man.
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If it's a woman, it's caustic; if it's a man, it's authoritative.
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If someone had told me when I was a kid I'd get an ovation from Frank Sinatra! One time, I did a song called 'I Am A Singer', but I rewrote the words for Frank. I was in tears and, when he got up, so was he.
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Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass.
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I like a man with some extra padding.
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A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.
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No one like crying, but tears water our souls. So, perhaps my thanks should be to allow you to cry for the Chinese women in my books.
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I am a man of my word.
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The Nautilus was piercing the water with its sharp spur, after having accomplished nearly ten thousand leagues in three months and a half, a distance greater than the great circle of the earth. Where were we going now, and what was reserved for the future?
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I would just as soon remain jamona than shed that many tears over a man.
