Ana Castillo Quotes
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Jay Townsend has offered, and I have accepted, his resignation from his position with my campaign. Now let's return to talking about issues that really matter to families: job creation, spending restraint and economic development.
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I had trouble with my temper all the way through the minor leagues.
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No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.
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You can't just keep recycling revivals. And you can't keep betting on the efforts of guys like me who've been around. You have to take the next step and bet on the next generation.
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The antagonism between the poet and the politician has generally been evident in all cultures.
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Back in the 1960s, I got a superb education for very little money. The bill for my first year at Harpur College in New York was a few hundred dollars.
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The fact that we are here today to debate raising America's debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better. I, therefore, intend to oppose the effort to increase America's debt.
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I have a ton of videos on MySpace and YouTube.
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I hate to look at the stuff I've written and consider what it means or why I do it.
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In all these years, I've understood one thing: that it's only your work that should do all the talking.
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I think I am less of a prankster and more of a jokester.
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I spent four years doing a doctorate in postmodern American literature. I can recognize it when I see it.
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The BBC is part of the glue which binds the United Kingdom together. At those times of national moment - of joy or sadness, in the UK or around the world, at times when the nation wants to celebrate, mourn or just enjoy itself people turn to the BBC.
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What sort of person you grow into should not be achieved by default, and often that's exactly what happens to kids. I see literature as a method of guidance, information, and contemplation, and consider it the greatest compliment possible when a reader tells me that a book of mine really made him/her think.
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Unfortunately, I like to feel a little stubble when I kiss. Women are too soft.
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A capacity, and taste, for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others.
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I'm a workaholic.
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Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard.
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When I was growing up, we learned our history almost as lives of the saints. And it came as a shock, "Oh, Jefferson had slaves?" It always comes as a shock to us that elevation to the White House didn't somehow cleanse them of all their deep character flaws.
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I think Bill Clinton was the best Republican president we've had in a while.
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I guarantee that if you talk to some of the young ladies that are out on the street selling their bodies -if you sit them down and really talk to them - they'll tell you that they've been abused, physically and mentally. They go through this stage where they don't care, because you don't feel like you're worth anything.
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I've always written songs for the sake of my own sanity and expression.
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I want to take the calculated risk; to dream and to build, to fail and to succeed.
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I was just, like, not at all the office type; I was the artist type.
