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

• I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach 10,000 stars how not to dance.

  

  e. e. cummings
  • Dance
  • Stars
  • Bird

• '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

• Put yourself in a state of mind where you say to yourself, "Here is an opportunity for me to celebrate like never before, my own power, my own ability to get myself to do whatever is necessary".

  

  Patrick Henry
  • Mind
  • Power
  • Success

• The striking thing about 'New Girl' is that under all the comedy, there's something about the emotions and reactions that feels very real - much more real than other sitcoms. Like - maybe everybody is sort of laid bare in different ways.

  

  Elizabeth Meriwether
  • Different
  • Real
  • Girl

• What would have to occur or to have occurred to constitute for you a disproof of the love of, or the existence of, God?

  

  Antony Flew
  • God
  • Existence
  • Occur

• I'm more of a culture hummingbird.

  

  Jai Rodriguez
  • Culture

• I do think stories are one of the best tools for communicating across any number of cultures. But I also think there are wildly successful leaders who are introverted, disciplined, lead via spreadsheets and goals, and might not "appear" to be a great leader...but in retrospect, made a massive impact.

  

  David Livermore
  • Thinking
  • Culture
  • Successful

• 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