Esmeralda Santiago Quotes

The night before I left my mother, I wrote a letter.

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• Working with special needs children is hard.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Children
  • Working
  • Special

• I propose a Constitutional Amendment providing that, if any public official, elected or appointed, at any level of government, is caught lying to any member of the public for any reason, the punishment shall be death by public hanging.

  

  L. Neil Smith
  • Death
  • Government
  • Lying

• We are in the entertainment business and we all know if you are top of the tree you get the big money. Those of us who have been in it are the fortunate ones but we understand that we probably don't deserve it as much as the nurses or teachers.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Money
  • Business
  • Tree

• When President Hassan Rouhani was elected in Iran in 2013, he welcomed back the far-flung children of Iran. But one by one, they have been arrested and imprisoned upon their return, a fate that has made me increasingly reluctant to risk going back to a homeland I've not seen since 1992.

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
  • Children
  • Risk
  • Fate

• I'm drawn to people who find themselves on the outside of things. I'm moved by that in real life.

  

  Rachel Joyce
  • People
  • Life
  • Real

• I'm dyslexic, I have attention-deficit disorder, and I've got something like a hereditary tremor.

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • Attention
  • Like
  • Something

• I'm a pushover. I make allowances for people if I like them.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • People
  • Like
  • Make

• I like myself a lot more than I used to. I had a very difficult time in my twenties especially. It was hard for me to look in the mirror and find something that I liked about myself.

  

  Janet Jackson
  • Time
  • Looks
  • Difficult

• Actors spend a great deal of their time making films. And that doesn't mean that they're not educated. But we haven't gone to law school and we're not experts on policy. We're just people with a platform and an opinion. But that should never be enough, in my opinion, to be political.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • People
  • Time
  • Great

• Is this money well spent? This is taxpayer money, it is going to be adding to the deficit short term and if we can't justify it, then we're not going to spend tens or hundreds of billions of dollars, just to make somebody happy, if it's not good for the economy.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Good
  • Money
  • Happy

• Generally it's not a good idea to wear Banana Republic - type khaki journalist clothes in a war zone. You might look too much like something that's supposed to be shot, such as a journalist.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Good
  • War
  • Funny

• I was shocked to find out that 1 in 4 women are affected by domestic violence at some point in their lifetime. So many women never tell anyone that they are being abused by their partner. I have joined the 'Real Man' Women's Aid campaign to show that real men don't abuse women and that a real man will always stand up against domestic violence.

  

  Ugo Monye
  • Up
  • Men
  • Women

• When you're shooting a movie you are away from home most of the time. It's an amazing thing that we get to do what we get to do, but you definitely are away from the family more than you'd like to be.

  

  Adam Sandler
  • Time
  • Family
  • Home

• Everyone steals. My favorite movie is Love Don't Cost a Thing with Nick Cannon. Which is based on Can't Buy Me Love, which is based on Kramer vs. Kramer, or something, which I think was Shakespeare.

  

  Aziz Ansari
  • Movie
  • Think
  • Buy

• Civilization will not attain to its perfection until the last stone from the last church falls on the last priest.

  

  Emile Zola
  • Fall
  • Church
  • Religion

• The case is in the preliminary stages and under investigation.

  

  Jason Lee
  • Case
  • Investigation
  • Stages

• There is no man that lives who does not need to be drilled, disciplined, and developed into something higher and nobler and better than he is by nature. Life is one prolonged birth.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Man
  • Lives
  • Disciplined

• We never pray against our government or call down curses on them. Instead, we have learned that God is in control both of our own lives and the government we live under. God has used China's government for His own purposes, molding and shaping His children as He sees fit. Instead of focusing our prayers against any political system, we pray that regardless of what happens to us, we will be pleasing to God.

  

  Brother Yun
  • God
  • Control
  • Government

• I once loved this game. But after being traded four times, I realized that it's nothing but a business. I treat my horses better than the owners treat us. It's a shame they've destroyed my love for the game.

  

  Richie Allen
  • Business
  • Destroyed
  • Realized

• I actually like getting out of my comfort zone. It shakes me up.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Me
  • Like
  • Comfort

• Almost all women have hearts full of pity.

  

  William Makepeace Thackeray
  • Heart
  • Pity

• The nicest thing for me is sleep, then at least I can dream.

  

  Marilyn Monroe
  • Dream
  • Sleep

• The night before I left my mother, I wrote a letter.

  

  Esmeralda Santiago
  • Left
  • My Mother
  • Letter