Gary Soto Quotes
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The American people deserve a budget that invests in the future, protects the most vulnerable among us and helps to create jobs and economic security.
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The beauty of soaps is that it takes a village to make it work, and you get to work with really hardworking people.
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The Soviet Union, the socialist camp, the People's Republic of China, and North Korea helped us resist, with essential supplies and weapons, the implacable blockade of the United States, the most powerful empire ever to exist.
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I just love, love going around and traveling and bringing the music to people. They just make you feel so happy that you came.
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Computation, storage, and communications capacity are in the hands of practically every connected person - and these are the basic physical capital means necessary for producing information, knowledge and culture, in the hands of something like 600 million to a billion people around the planet.
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I wouldn't swap the era I competed in for anything, not a day of it. I started out as an amateur, and people like myself, Seb Coe, Steve Ovett, Steve Cram, Tessa Sanderson and the rest did it for the glory of winning medals for our country.
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I'm not one of those people who needs that gratification of doing, like, 10 films a year.
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People say I look like my father. My son is very much like him.
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I tried to write 'Trainspotting' in standard English, but people weren't talking like that.
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I'm interested in full disclosure for people who give money to politicians. But I'm not a politician. I'm an advocate.
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When people from organizations like the World Bank descended on Third World countries, they always tried to remove obstacles to development, to reduce economic anxiety and uncertainty.
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Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.
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That is why we are working with these various groups that have volunteers. We can get a lot of these things done. Nobody has dropped out, and a lot of people would like to join. We now know what each other does.
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You see, party labels do not ensure unanimity any more than trying to cast the challenge we confront as a people through a partisan prism.
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Every single person has the power to change the world and help people.
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And history also shows that seemingly ordinary people who are sufficiently resolute about justice can triumph over the most formidable adversaries.
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You could mention my name in any hallway in any academic institution and you would have people foaming at the mouth.
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A lot of people still think caring about clothes is a dubious, unserious, frivolous, girlie thing.
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One of the ways you go after the debt, one of the ways you create jobs is by investing in people.
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By limiting access to surrogacy based on flimsy and exclusionary criteria, the government may just give rise to a mushrooming black market.
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Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.
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We don't have to live up to the expectations of others. Passion is personal. As long as our passion is fueled with the right stuff then keep on plodding forward. I'll never be Mark Twain or Tom Clancy. But that's okay, because neither of them could teach you to mix a boundless number of grays, or where to place the catch light in a portrait.
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There's a real cowardice in the movie business. If you don't meet the right crazy people, you can't do it.
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You can always spot bright people. They are reading a book.
