Ted Cruz Quotes

Sure, I've listed myself as Cuban-American. That's my heritage and my background.

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• When I'm on stage, I know exactly where I am. It's not an ego thing or anything like that, but I am more in my body and aware of myself and aware of what I'm doing, and I feel more from that, from sharing the music.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Music
  • Stage
  • Ego

• I once said, 'Steve Jobs is the American Xavier Niel,' but that was humour.

  

  Xavier Niel
  • American
  • Said
  • Once

• I had no intention of becoming a performer, and yet under miraculous circumstances I was brought into the music industry fold. If divine powers hadn't intervened, I'd still be living in China working in some area of Sino-American comparative law.

  

  Abigail Washburn
  • Music
  • American
  • Law

• I think of myself as a cover girl. But I would never do some kind of cheesy magazine.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Girl
  • Kind
  • Myself

• Winning is great, but being able to finish my last Olympic Games on American soil was very important. Even though I was injured, I didn't let my psyche get the best of me and cause me to doubt myself, so I was willing to pull every muscle in my body in '96 in order to get the job done and I came away with the bronze medal.

  

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee
  • Great
  • Important
  • Done

• In American films, Russians are often portrayed like cartoon villains without clear motivations.

  

  Yuliya Snigir
  • American
  • Often
  • Cartoon

• I love talking about myself.

  

  Lara Flynn Boyle
  • Love
  • Myself
  • Talking

• I always wanted to be honest with myself and to those who have had faith in me.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Faith
  • Me
  • Always

• Modi is an excellent orator - sure, anybody who spouts untruths is an excellent orator.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Sure
  • Excellent
  • Anybody

• The American school system's a little warped, so anyone can get a degree if they have a little money.

  

  Adam DeVine
  • School
  • Money
  • American

• I did a play called 'On Golden Pond' in a dinner theater in Maine and then went to New York for a talent competition having put together a three-man juggling routine and some one-liners and I got myself an agent from that.

  

  Patrick Dempsey
  • Together
  • Myself
  • Competition

• Truth be told, actually, my favorite director of the Movie Brats was not Scorsese. Loved him. But my favorite director of the Movie Brats was Brian de Palma. I actually met De Palma right after I'd done 'Reservoir Dogs,' and I was very beside myself.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Done
  • Truth
  • Movie

• I like to think of myself as a storyteller.

  

  Kate DiCamillo
  • Think
  • Myself
  • Like

• By 17, I was modeling and had bought myself a flat. I've always tried to be self-sufficient.

  

  Sadie Frost
  • Myself
  • Always
  • Modeling

• I still sweat bullets if I go on The Tonight Show, but I tell myself, You can either have fun tonight or you can be shy and miserable. You ask my friends or anyone I work with now - nobody would say I was shy.

  

  Lara Flynn Boyle
  • Work
  • Friends
  • Fun

• When you're heartbroken, you're at your most creative - you have to channel all your energies into something else to not think about it. Contentment is a creativity killer, but don't worry - I'm very capable of making myself discontented.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Myself
  • Worry
  • Creativity

• I can only say that I myself wrote always as I wished, without a tremendous desire to find the latest thing possible.

  

  Samuel Barber
  • Desire
  • Myself
  • Find

• I cannot in any case permit myself to be brought before the people, exclusively, by any of the political parties that now so unfortunately divide our country, as their candidate for office.

  

  Zachary Taylor
  • People
  • Country
  • Political

• It was just not enough. If we were like NASCAR and had bumpers, I'm sure I would have won the race.

  

  Helio Castroneves
  • Sure
  • Won
  • NASCAR

• You're not sick you're just in love.

  

  Irving Berlin
  • Love
  • Sick
  • For Her

• I walk every day, and I look at the mountains and the fields and the small city, and I say: 'Oh my God, what a blessing.' Then you realise it's important to put it in a context beyond this woman, this man, this city, this country, this universe.

  

  Paulo Coelho
  • God
  • Important
  • Country

• Acting is trying to be absolutely truthful; to get audiences to believe that you are a dean, when, actually, not only are you not the dean, but if you walked into the building they'd probably throw you out. That's very hard.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • Believe
  • Trying
  • Acting

• The only rule I have found to have any validity in writing is not to bore yourself.

  

  John Mortimer
  • Writing

• Sure, I've listed myself as Cuban-American. That's my heritage and my background.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • American
  • Myself
  • Sure