Esmeralda Santiago Quotes

I learned you pay for your happiness. That's why I don't expect to be happy all the time. I'd rather be surprised by one moment every so often to remind me that joy is possible, even if I have to pay for it later.

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• I caught the acting bug from my dad.

  

  Finn Wittrock
  • Dad
  • Acting
  • Caught

• Never having alone time is real tough on people.

  

  Yakov Smirnoff
  • People
  • Time
  • Real

• Men move through a much different process before commitment than women do.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Different
  • Women

• The brunette phase just came about because I was fed up with this 'Blonde Angel Image'. The rebel in me demanded a new color.

  

  Magdalena Neuner
  • Up
  • Me
  • Color

• Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • More
  • Four
  • Thousand

• We Belgians love when we can go to L.A. because the city is amazing and the climate is fantastic.

  

  Raf Simons
  • City
  • Amazing
  • Fantastic

• Editing is the only process. The shooting is the pleasant work. The editing makes the movie, so I spend all my life in editing.

  

  Garry Marshall
  • Life
  • Work
  • Movie

• We are beginning to see the benefits of global consolidation.

  

  Lakshmi Mittal
  • Beginning
  • See
  • Benefits

• Trivializing the Holocaust is the last thing I want to do.

  

  Hans Haacke
  • Want
  • Holocaust
  • Last

• I did model for a little while part-time, but I wasn't a bloody model, and I am definitely not that horrible thing 'model-turned-actress.'

  

  Tamsin Egerton
  • Time
  • Model
  • Actress

• I trust work, directors - I don't live in fear. All good experiences have come from trusting the universe. There is no other way to live or love. Otherwise, you create your own prison.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Good
  • Work
  • Live

• I don't find biology as interesting as politics and humanism. I talk more about existential stuff.

  

  Dana Carvey
  • Interesting
  • Politics
  • Find

• As far as I'm concerned, attraction, in its most rudimentary form, comes from the way a person naturally smells. I'd say that within the first five seconds of 'inhaling' someone, I know if there's an attraction or not. This may sound animalistic - and it is.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • May
  • Know
  • Sound

• In both the world of fashion and politics, what's required to succeed is passion, dedication, and vision.

  

  R. J. Cutler
  • World
  • Fashion
  • Passion

• It is a fantastic initiative by the ministry to develop Aakash Tablet, a mobile device that can be utilised by students anywhere. It was successfully tried out. The second and third versions have come out and the fourth version is on the anvil.

  

  Pallam Raju
  • Come
  • Version
  • Initiative

• Gentlemen prefer blondes.

  

  Anita Loos
  • Gentleman
  • Blonde
  • Classic

• Is it ignorance or apathy? Hey, I don't know and I don't care.

  

  Jimmy Buffett
  • Knows
  • Ignorance
  • Empathy

• People come to see the stars, and then they walk away with two or three new favorites.

  

  Bob Richards
  • People
  • Stars
  • Favorites

• We are not here to be successful, we are here to be FAITHFUL.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • Successful
  • Here
  • Faithful

• Fun opens the doors to creativity, which then leads to inspiration, which then births passion, which all together equals both happiness and success!

  

  Rachele Brooke Smith
  • Fun
  • Success
  • Passion

• The following terms all mean one and the same thing: God, goodness, mental health, truth, decency, happiness, freedom, reality, peace, love, sensibleness.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • God
  • Love
  • Truth

• I learned you pay for your happiness. That's why I don't expect to be happy all the time. I'd rather be surprised by one moment every so often to remind me that joy is possible, even if I have to pay for it later.

  

  Esmeralda Santiago
  • Happiness
  • Learned
  • Surprised