Esmeralda Santiago Quotes

If you don't exist in the arts of a culture, you're invisible. The arts are what express the soul of who we are and that expresses our humanity.

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• I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Believe
  • History
  • Accidents

• A lot of the stuff about white-supremacist groups was very family-friendly: 'We just love our people.' One the surface, you go, 'Gee, what's wrong with loving your people?' But when you love your people to the exclusion of everything else that's remotely different, that's when you get into trouble.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • People
  • Different
  • Family

• I like being unconventional.

  

  Florence Griffith Joyner
  • Like
  • Being
  • Unconventional

• I think there is no reason for us to bring to Islamism or political Islam the fear and ignorance of Western commentators and their hysterical vocabulary.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Political
  • Fear
  • Ignorance

• War used to be something you could stand on the nearby hill and watch. Now we have total war; everybody's in it. We have total economics as well. Everything affects everybody. The Malaysian currency shakes, and people around the world are seriously affected.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • People
  • World
  • War

• Air power will not defeat ISIS. It has not been able to deny ISIS freedom of maneuver and the ability to attack at will.

  

  Jack Keane
  • Power
  • Freedom
  • Air

• Toleration is the best religion.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Best
  • Religion
  • Toleration

• I have a lightsaber at my front door for home protection. I have an 800-watt electric skateboard that I use to run errands in my neighborhood. It can go about six, seven miles, so depending on how much time I have, and how much I have to carry home, I'll take it really far. I love that thing.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Time
  • Home
  • Protection

• I tried to bake a cake for my mother's birthday - it took me four hours. It was terrible, and I cried for three days.

  

  Rachael Ray
  • Mother
  • Food
  • Birthday

• After the 'Grey Album,' everyone thought of me as the hip-hop guy, the remix maestro. I didn't know how to show them otherwise.

  

  Danger Mouse
  • Guy
  • Me
  • Thought

• Truth is one forever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood, the disposition of the spectator.

  

  Wendell Phillips
  • Truth
  • Opinion
  • Forever

• When I draw something, the brain and the hands work together.

  

  Tadao Ando
  • Work
  • Together
  • Brain

• 'Life Aquatic' was the first movie I did, and it's been an incredible adventure since then.

  

  Waris Ahluwalia
  • Life
  • Movie
  • First

• And sure th' Eternal Master foundHis single talent well employ'd.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Single

• The watchers below pulled in their breath all at once. The air felt suddenly shared. The man above was a word they seemed to know, though they had not heard it before.

  

  Colum McCann
  • Air

• I'm competitive, and I love to create challenges for myself. Maybe that's not always a good thing. It can make life complicated.

  

  Donald Trump
  • Life
  • Good

• Eventually one day I want to direct, but as of right now my next cap that I'm looking for is the producer cap.

  

  Laz Alonso

• For some time, I've said this issue of comprehensive immigration reform is not just an issue about immigration or human rights or civil rights, it's about our economy. You take 11 million people from out of the dark and into the light. The think tanks have surmised that you are talking about trillions of dollars infused into the economy.

  

  Antonio Villaraigosa
  • People
  • Time
  • Light

• You can't please people who don't really know you and, you know, I do think that one of the things I do want to do is please the people who matter to me and please the people that do know me.

  

  Cherie Blair
  • People

• 'Breaking Bad' is great at blurring the line between good and evil. It makes you feel compassion for Walter White so you're with him throughout this descent into the darker parts of his psyche. The bad that we're capable of is all circumstantial.

  

  Jesse Plemons
  • Good
  • Great
  • Bad

• Mummies are dehydrated & they long for the blood of living words.

  

  Peter Lamborn Wilson
  • Long
  • Words

• The average Indian doesn't care about Hollywood movies because they have far too many movies of their own to watch, to miss, and I hope a story like 'Million Dollar Arm,' that is actually about India and deals with these two Indian kids, resonates over there and makes people want to go and see the movie.

  

  Aasif Mandvi
  • People
  • Kids
  • Movie

• If the artist only reproduces superficial features as photography does, if he copies the lineaments of a face exactly, without reference to character, he deserves no admiration. The resemblance which he ought to obtain is that of the soul; that alone matters; it is that which the sculptor or painter should seek beneath the mask of features.

  

  Auguste Rodin
  • Character
  • Soul
  • Alone

• If you don't exist in the arts of a culture, you're invisible. The arts are what express the soul of who we are and that expresses our humanity.

  

  Esmeralda Santiago
  • Soul
  • Culture
  • Humanity