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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We have met the enemy and he is us.
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There's really no difference between what I do and what a male filmmaker might do. I mean we all try to make our days, we all try to give the best performances we can, we try to make our budget, we try to make the best movie we possibly can.
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Those who speak up, those who use their connections, are more likely to succeed than those who sit and wait.
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I think it hurt my performance because I stopped being me. That won't ever happen again.
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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.
