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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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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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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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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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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I don't want to be 50 years old and rapping, man. I'm pretty sure nobody wants to do that.
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Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
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Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.
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When a woman behaves like a man why doesn't she behave like a nice man?
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In opposition to this detachment, he finds an image of man which contains within itself man's dreams, man's illness, man's redemption from the misery of poverty - poverty which can no longer be for him a sign of the acceptance of life.
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Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable.
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I couldn't get that same feeling during the day, with my hands in dirty dish water and the hard sun showing up the dirtiness on the roof tops. And after a time, even at night, the feeling of God didn't last.
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My friends who have babies can't do anything. You can't go out at night. Having a baby is like a DUI from the universe.
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I said to Martin Scorsese, 'When are you going to make another film with a woman at the center?'
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I would just as soon remain jamona than shed that many tears over a man.
