Carmen Yulin Cruz Quotes
While the American people have had a big heart, President Trump has had a big mouth, and he has used it to insult the people of Puerto Rico.
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You go to a theater now and you literally see parents watching the movie and they suddenly cover their kid's ears. I figured I'd make one movie where they didn't have to do this.
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Hip-hop is rich in musical allusion. It takes something that already existed, respects it, and reuses it.
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Art breathes into life a surplus that is both vital and extraordinary.
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Wine and women do not go with song. Alcohol is the worst enemy of the imagination.
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Definitely for me, my personality, having children was a definite sea change. I found it very, very hard to balance show business and being a dad. The narcissism of show business and the complete, total focus of it was very difficult.
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An alliance of civilisations can be our most powerful weapon in the fight against terror.
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I was an expert horseman.
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I feel nowadays a lot of bands can be too overly produced. There's something about the leather pants and bare bodies and Axl Rose running back and forth on a stage and going crazy. I love all that.
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Most Americans have no memory of the designs Franklin Roosevelt's New Dealers had for postwar-American foreign policy. Human rights, self-determination and an end to European colonization in the developing world, nuclear disarmament, international law, the World Court, the United Nations - these were all ideas of the progressive left.
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If I just did music, I might go insane. I need words; I need stories. And it's the same the other way around.
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My dad's a doctor, and when I was 8, I went to one of his medical conferences where they were demonstrating laser surgery on a chicken. I was so mad that a chicken had to die, I never ate meat again.
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I like being friends with other women who are supportive of women. I think that is important.
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I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
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As I grew up in that world and saw how much it affected her world and how much it affected our childhood, it made me very aware of politics. Of course, I have my own private feelings and thoughts, but I don't care to share them.
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I'm not a sun person.
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You have to be brave and not always play likeable people. It's difficult, because there's a demand for the hero or heroine to be very likeable.
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Women are sacred.
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The nature of creativity is to make space for things to happen... We can drive it out with our busyness and plans.
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It is what we are forced to do that forms our character, not what we do of our own free will.
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I think Donald Trump taps into an anger that I hear every day. People are angry that a commonsense thing like securing the border or ending sanctuary cities is somehow considered extreme. It's not extreme; it's common sense. We need to secure the border.
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Most people want to be able to go off and deal with their day - stop in here, run errands there - and when you can't do that, going out becomes a chore.
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My short attention span has allowed me a life of diversity in work and place.
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I'm always open to discussing collaborations.
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While the American people have had a big heart, President Trump has had a big mouth, and he has used it to insult the people of Puerto Rico.
