Ana Castillo Quotes
I'm concerned about a lot of serious border issues. This book is about the border reality and the struggles of the undocumented worker.
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What brought mass innovation to a nation was not scientific advances - its own or others' - but 'economic dynamism': the desire and the space to innovate.
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When the depths are upheld by the Holy Spirit, then the reaction is Christian.
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I'm not a runner, and I always dreamed about just throwing on my sneakers and really knocking everyone's socks off with my joy of traversing the world by foot.
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I don't care if people think I'm gay. I know I'm not, so it doesn't bother me.
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What men are among the other formations of the earth, artists are among men.
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My first jobs were all civil service. At 14, I worked for the Canadian National Railways. At 16, I worked for the Canadian Penitentiary Service.
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Science fiction writers have usually been very poor prognosticators of the future, either in literary or technological terms, and that's because we're all too human and, I think, have the tendency to see what we want to or, in the case of those more paranoid, what we fear.
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I like to think I'll just be walking down the street one day and stop and meet someone, like, 'Oh my God, you're awesome,' and then we start dating.
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Education helps you to be a well-rounded person, period. It teaches you how to take in information and data, process it, and use it for life building. Education was key in my family. You were going to college.
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If I'm on holiday, I'm active on the beach, I play tennis, I run, I swim a lot. It's just about making the workouts fun, I think, and then it doesn't really feel that bad.
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You do a show to be a hit and hopefully run a couple of years.
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My parents were perfectly open-minded about everything. They never tried to convince us of what was true or what wasn't true in their minds. We were just presented with the information that was around and pretty much allowed - though, I mean, we knew how they felt. We knew they didn't go to church. So obviously that had an effect.
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Preach or proselytize for Christianity in much of the Islamic world, and you are a candidate for martyrdom. Practice freedom of speech in Xi Jinping's China, and you can wind up in a cell.
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There are aspects of being the first woman in space that I'm not going to enjoy.
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If a film project were available and the timing was right, I might be interested.
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The more a general is accustomed to place heavy demands on his soldiers, the more he can depend on their response.
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Maybe I just wasn't a show-biz type. I didn't miss performing at all.
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Becoming famous and selling a lot of records doesn't change a thing.
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I wasn't a big fan of social anthropology. And, luckily, that created room for me to work in visual arts because I sort of ignored my requirements. I think I was attracted to social anthropology because I liked to travel and was always interested in far-off places.
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One of the privileges of the great is to witness catastrophes from a terrace.
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In my experience, if people don't have a sense of humor, they are usually not very good scientists, either.
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'Justified' had such dead-on beautiful scripts that you didn't want to mess with it.
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I have the utmost respect for those who have come to this country legally and have contributed to the great melting pot that is America today. But those who have crossed our borders illegally have broken the law and the law ought to be enforced.
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I'm concerned about a lot of serious border issues. This book is about the border reality and the struggles of the undocumented worker.
