Ana Castillo Quotes
I'm obviously an American citizen. My parents are American citizens. But I'm not looked at as an American.Ana Castillo
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Shareholders need to have a real interest in the companies they own. Too many are simply too busy - they are asleep at the wheel.
Nathan Kirsh -
I think the kind of unexpected I really love is when you open books and the actual way of writing is different and interesting. Like reading Virginia Woolf for the first time or Lawrence Durrell for the first time.
Lalla Ward -
The French are pretty thin-skinned. The few times I mentioned a French writer in 'City Boy,' the relatives would ring up in high dudgeon. I once wrote a mocking review of Marguerite Duras in the 'New York Review of Books,' and good friends of mine in France got very angry.
Edmund White -
I'm a huge Disney nut. I have been since I was a little kid.
Zachary Levi -
If England became a world power, it was because of the industrial revolution.
N. R. Narayana Murthy -
As long as a film stays unmade, the book is entirely yours, it belongs to the writer. As soon as you make it into a film, suddenly more people see it than have ever read the book.
Iain Banks
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I don't even know how to define myself. I'm a person who writes. It's something I enjoy, and hopefully people enjoy it as well.
Macaulay Culkin -
When I listen to President Obama speak to and about women, he sometimes sounds too paternalistic for my taste.
Brown Campbell -
I suspect that many of the great cultural shifts that prepare the way for political change are largely aesthetic. A Buick radiator grille is as much a political statement as a Rolls Royce radiator grille, one enshrining a machine aesthetic driven by a populist optimism, the other enshrining a hierarchical and exclusive social order.
J. G. Ballard -
The older I've gotten, the more the need to exert comedy no matter how tragic a character I may be portraying because they are essentials for presenting truth.
Ed Asner -
Whether it comes from a despotic sovereign or an elected president, from a murderous general or a beloved leader, I see power as an inhuman and hateful phenomenon.
Oriana Fallaci -
Let us not curse the darkness. Let us kindle little lights.
Dada Vaswani
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When you're imagining peace, you can't kill anyone. That's good isn't it?
Yoko Ono -
It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Time is important to me because I want to sing long enough to leave a message. I'm used to singing in churches where nobody would dare stop me until the Lord arrives!
Mahalia Jackson -
There was a verse that said if you are lukewarm rather than hot or cold, God will spit you out of his mouth on Judgment Day. And I felt like, I mean, I don't know. I'm lukewarm.
Maggie Rowe -
Stay calm and aggressive.
Gabrielle Reece -
It's the story of New York. Storefronts change and languages change, but at the end of the day, people come here to find opportunity like my family did.
Sal Albanese
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And yet, I wake up every day to a sensation of pervading disgust and annoyance. I probably ought to carry around some kind of thermometer or other instrument, to keep checking that I am not falling prey to premature curmudgeonhood.
Christopher Hitchens -
We see these adolescents mourning for a lost childhood.
David Elkind -
What are the symbols of American strength, wealth, power and modernity? Certainly not jazz and rock and roll, not chewing-gum or hamburgers, Broadway or Hollywood. It's their skyscrapers. Their Pentagon. Their science. Their technology.
Oriana Fallaci -
During one or two summers, as well as part-time during the school year, I worked for a small Canadian company which developed electrical instruments for military planes.
Walter Kohn -
We need to move away from oil, period.
James Woolsey -
I'm obviously an American citizen. My parents are American citizens. But I'm not looked at as an American.
Ana Castillo