Esmeralda Santiago Quotes
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Waste Management was based in Chicago, but I lived in Ft. Lauderdale and for 10 years had to commute to work - catch the 5 P.M. Sunday flight to Chicago and the midnight return flight on Friday.
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Each dress symbolizes the age that it's appropriate for.
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It's hard for people sometimes to relate to me. They weren't in the military, they weren't injured overseas in Iraq, they weren't burned, they didn't go through 33 surgeries, or two and a half years in the hospital.
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I love the immediacy of those old analog machines; it's really inspiring. You just set them up to play, and they go, playing the same thing until you switch the pattern.
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I have had to learn about saying no.
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I hope to be like Bill Gates, bro. With all the money in the world.
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Roy Keane and Paul Scholes were unbelievable players. You cannot compare yourself to them. It is impossible. Scholes especially, I like him a lot, and I have a lot of respect for what he did for United.
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A lot of times I make people better by getting stupid, distracting, bureaucratic stuff off their desk. That's an incredibly easy way to make a senior person more productive.
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On the radio there's only a certain amount of artists: Jay-Z, Beyonce, Kanye, T-Pain, Lil Wayne, T.I., Mary J Blige, Alicia Keys. Other artists are achieving things that are really special, they have a hard time getting people's attention. Music has been just a little bit lacklustre.
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I have a family and two cats; I get up with my kids early in the morning.
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The Koran and the laws of all civilized nations legislate against the vilification of religions.
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Nothing's Planted, I don't have a thing in the ground.
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Right knows no boundaries and justice no frontiers; the brotherhood of man is not a domestic institution.
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Civility costs nothing, and buys everything.
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Pressure is something you feel when you don't know what you're doing.
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When you're six years old, you do not appreciate that you're living in the Alps. My sisters and I, all we wanted was to go to Disneyland.
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People work so hard, and I want to keep that energy up, and you can spread that if you're the actor. But I'm also not able to turn it on and off like a faucet. A lot of what I'm called upon to play is violent or angry. When I'm messing around with the crew and making jokes, I remember, 'Oh, this is the guy I normally am.'
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I can well imagine making acquisitions so long as these are complementary to Puma and move it forward.
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Nature... is nothing but the inner voice of self-interest.
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Being young is so hard. You're surrounded by judgment and fear.
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I've been performing my whole life. My mom signed me up for a theater program when I was five - I was the evil queen in 'Once Upon a Mattress.'
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Every man is his own Pygmalion, and spends his life fashioning himself. And in fashioning himself, for good or ill, he fashions the human race and its future.
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Chicago is a pretty good town.
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It' her life, and she' in the middle of it.
