Rafael Cruz Quotes
Only in America can someone start with nothing and achieve the American Dream. That's the greatness of this country.
Rafael Cruz
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Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.
H. L. Mencken
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Before my book, 'California,' came out, I had modest hopes for it. Or, let's put it this way - I had the same hopes that every literary fiction writer in America has: I wanted the novel to be well-received, critically. As for sales? I didn't want it to disappoint, but I didn't expect it to be a best-seller, either.
Edan Lepucki
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I learned that fighting on the chess board could also have an impact on the political climate in the country.
Garry Kasparov
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I was a star in Italy, Austrailia, Germany and Japan before the American stations ever paid attention at all.
Nancy Sinatra
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I'm a registered, vetted gun owner, but that's because I live way out in the country, like way out in the middle of nowhere.
Naomi Judd
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There is no such thing as a little country. The greatness of a people is no more determined by their numbers than the greatness of a man is by his height.
Victor Hugo
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I have my great grandmother's recipe for black beans, all the way from Cuba, and I know how to make those. I'm actually pretty good at it now. But my first time, the beans actually exploded in the pot, so I had black beans just dripping from the ceiling - which is actually a dream come true for most Cubans. It was a nightmare to clean.
Danny Pino
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It's pleasanter to work in the country, where you can wander out among the trees. But I don't get as much work done. In the city you don't want to leave the room because there's all that chaos going on.
Stephen Sondheim
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He yawned. He had finished the day and he had also finished with his youth. Various well-bred moralities had already discreetly offered him their services: disillusioned epicureanism, smiling tolerance, resignation, common sense stoicism - all the aids whereby a man may savour, minute by minute, like a connoisseur, the failure of a life.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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The power of free will is developed and confirmed by increasing the number of worthy motives which influence conduct.
John Lancaster Spalding
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I don't spend a lot of time thinking of what they'll do musically, I try to imagine being locked into a windowless room with this person for twelve hours at a time. If you can look at that and think it might be fun then maybe you've got the right musician.
Leo Kottke
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Only in America can someone start with nothing and achieve the American Dream. That's the greatness of this country.
Rafael Cruz
