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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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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Women hold up more than half the sky and represent much of the world's unrealized potential. They are the educators. They raise the children. They hold families together and increasingly drive economies. They are natural leaders. We need their full engagement... in government, business and civil society.
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I've always felt that there's a Catskills comic who lives in my head and is constantly trying to get out. There's all these jokes that have been passed down from Jewish generation to Jewish generation, which I love but which I've always made fun of.
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I wish I had an answer to that because I'm tired of answering that question.
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I am always striving to be the best that I can be as a filmmaker.
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Like everything metaphysical the harmony between thought and reality is to be found in the grammar of the language.
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We criticize a man or a book most sharply when we sketch out their ideal.
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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.
