Ana Castillo Quotes

I was just, like, not at all the office type; I was the artist type.

Ana Castillo

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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.

  

  Nan Hayworth
  • Job
  • Creation
  • Development

• I had trouble with my temper all the way through the minor leagues.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
  • Way
  • Trouble
  • Through

• No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.

  

  Jacob Bronowski
  • Power
  • Science
  • Politics

• 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.

  

  Harold Prince
  • Generation
  • Step
  • Recycling

• The antagonism between the poet and the politician has generally been evident in all cultures.

  

  Salvatore Quasimodo
  • Poet
  • Politician
  • Cultures

• 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.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Money
  • Education
  • College

• 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.

  

  Barack Obama
  • America
  • Today
  • Effort

• I have a ton of videos on MySpace and YouTube.

  

  Owen Benjamin
  • YouTube
  • Myspace
  • Ton

• I hate to look at the stuff I've written and consider what it means or why I do it.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Why
  • Hate
  • Look

• In all these years, I've understood one thing: that it's only your work that should do all the talking.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Work
  • Years
  • Talking

• I think I am less of a prankster and more of a jokester.

  

  Taye Diggs
  • Jokester
  • Prankster

• I spent four years doing a doctorate in postmodern American literature. I can recognize it when I see it.

  

  Kate Atkinson
  • American
  • Literature
  • Doing

• 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.

  

  Gavyn Davies
  • People
  • World
  • Together

• 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.

  

  Wendelin Van Draanen
  • Book
  • Kids
  • Literature

• Unfortunately, I like to feel a little stubble when I kiss. Women are too soft.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • Women
  • Feel
  • Kiss

• A capacity, and taste, for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Reading
  • Taste
  • Others

• I'm a workaholic.

  

  Carice van Houten
  • Workaholic

• Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard.

  

  Warren Bennis
  • Music
  • Dance
  • Leadership

• The friends we have, these are choices that - unlike family, which we have no choice in, and I love my family, thank God - we've given ourselves, to some degree.

  

  Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club
  • God
  • Family
  • Love

• If we can't begin to agree on fundamentals, such as the elimination of the most abusive forms of child labor, then we really are not ready to march forward into the future.

  

  Alexis Herman
  • Future
  • March

• I suppose the most radical part of my teaching at present is that love is not a feeling. Everybody suffers from love, or the fear of it, or the lack of it. Why? Why is love so universally and inevitably heart – breaking, whether it be through the end of a love affair, the death of a loved one or being locked in with the habitual casualness or grim indifference of a partner? The answer is because we've been taught and conditioned by the world to believe that love is a feeling.

  

  Barry Long
  • Believe
  • Love
  • Feeling

• I want to be different and have a good story. If it's a good story, then everybody is trying to tell it, everybody is better for it, and it's just more fun.

  

  Garrett Dillahunt
  • Good
  • Different
  • Trying

• I was just, like, not at all the office type; I was the artist type.

  

  Ana Castillo