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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When I was a boy, I would ask about my family history, about my bloodlines. We really didn't know that much. We had a little Indian in us from the Oklahoma Trail of Tears.
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All roads lead to Wall Street, but we feel the effects of Wall Street on every street corner. Certainly in Syracuse, N.Y., where I live.
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Money was intended to be used in exchange, but not to increase at interest. And this term interest, which means the birth of money from money, is applied to the breeding of money because the offspring resembles the parent. Wherefore of all modes of getting wealth this is the most unnatural.
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I would just as soon remain jamona than shed that many tears over a man.
