Eiza Gonzalez Quotes
I studied in American school, so yes, I grew up speaking English and Spanish. Obviously, Spanish is my first language.
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Don't go getting mixed up in the business of your betters, or you'll land in trouble too big for you.
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The essential relationship across American history between black people and white people is one of exploitation and one of plunder. This is not, you know, necessarily about, you know, whether you're a good person or not or whether you see black people, you know, on the street, and you're willing to shake their hands and be polite.
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The only way to do is just to go for it, otherwise it ends up looking phoney.
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I went to a Steiner School, which is very small and nurturing and creative, so I felt like I was in an environment where I could mature. There was less of the clique-y stuff, which can really make high school a living hell for a lot of people, going on, so I was very similar then to who I am now. I'm still a dork.
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I didn't live at school, I lived where I could and studied what I enjoyed studying. I took what I wanted from that education but was making my first record at the same time. I don't know anyone from school. I was just leading a different life. I was really interested in writing and other things.
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Women don't give up things. They don't give up responsibilities. They add new things. They exhaust themselves and still don't give anything up. And. And. And. And. And they do all these other things at the same time, which can be exhausting.
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The death of chief justice Rehnquist and the president's nomination of John Roberts raises the stakes for the court and the American people exponentially.
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I lived near Arthur's Seat when I lived in Edinburgh. It was the perfect playground as a child. I always have a wee run up there when I'm back.
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We took Big Pun, a 700-lb Spanish guy, one of the greatest rappers ever, and made him a sex symbol. Women would wait on line to kiss him.
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School after Labor Day is now the law of the land in Maryland.
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I'd just like to be good at sports. I'm extremely competitive with absolutely nothing to back it up.
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I did accents and funny voices for the family when I was growing up.
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I think every high school student who was alert during the early '60s got very embittered by the slow progress and the violence surrounding the Civil Rights Movement.
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The Roaring Twenties were the period of that Great American Prosperity which was built on shaky foundations.
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I still have not given up the idea of becoming a journalist, but at 17 I decided to follow my heart and stay in Los Angeles with my girlfriend as opposed to going to Johns Hopkins.
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The man who can keep a secret may be wise, but he is not half as wise as the man with no secrets to keep.
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Despite a certain amount of rhetoric, such as 'the second American Revolution,' there is a fair consensus about which events in the affairs of a people can rightly be called revolutions. It is also clear that such revolutions are proper objects of study for the historian.
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I have met hundreds of young people doing just what George Romney did: using a hand up in tough times to become part of the American Dream.
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You're the one who held me up Never let me fall
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My parents are very conservative. They taught me the value of hard work - don't depend on other people, do it yourself.
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I went to the big Picasso retrospective at the Tate in the sixties, and I think I went to an Andy Warhol retrospective at the Tate in the sixties, too. My mother was very good at taking me to things like that. We lived in Reading, but we went on these cultural trips to London.
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Many baseball fans look upon an umpire as a sort of necessary evil to the luxury of baseball, like the odor that follows an automobile.
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My favorite shoe brand is Christian Louboutin - I don't have a favorite shoe store per se.
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I studied in American school, so yes, I grew up speaking English and Spanish. Obviously, Spanish is my first language.
