Carmen Yulin Cruz Quotes

Sometimes you have to shake the tree in order to make things happen. And if that has a political cost, I will take it, as long as it saves lives.

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• I am the last guy that wants to quit making music.

  

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• Go to the doctor, get a checkup, and get Pap smears regularly. Cervical cancer is very preventable, and if you catch it early, there are tons of ways to treat it as well.

  

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• Yoga takes what you have and molds and sculpts it, which is a much more natural way to look and feel.

  

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• I got in a really bad accident in a Toyota vehicle, but I feel like the safety of the vehicle and God really saved my life.

  

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• I'm the kind of person whose clothes are all hung up and color-coordinated, to the point where my whites don't touch my creams.

  

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• The first drama thing I really got stuck into was 'A Midsummer Night's Dream.' I played Puck. That's when I said, 'I want to be an actor.'

  

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• Sometimes when you're a songwriter, you kind of have this egotistic thing: you just want to write something that you love, and you don't care about if people like it or not, but personally, I want to write something that people can jive to.

  

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• I just started making Bloody Marys. I always thought they looked gross, then I tasted one. There's an art to it, from the Tabasco to the Worcestershire.

  

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• I've always been about how will digital be transforming established businesses, and that's what I've done.

  

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• Sarcasm helps me overcome the harshness of the reality we live, eases the pain of scars and makes people smile.

  

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• No, you never get any fun out of the things you haven't done.

  

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• If you do what you were born to do, I think you will never grow old.

  

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• I take care of myself and take antioxidating supplements suggested by my best friend and first fan - he takes care of my Internet presence - Doctor Mario Rosario Porzio. I eat well - in fact, very well.

  

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• I get a lot of disbelief that my accent could actually be real, which seems strange.

  

  Ed Weeks
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• I needed to purge myself of all the attention my parents had given me – I wasn't neglected enough as a child.

  

  Captain Beefheart
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• If we had this back, and in full measure; if society were infused by it, through and through, and men lived its life, and in its life, philosophy would take care of itself and the nature of our institutions would not matter.

  

  Ralph Adams Cram
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• The terror of the atom age is not the violence of the new power but the speed of man's adjustment to it, the speed of his acceptance.

  

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• I say this all the time, but my hijab, it really is my crown, and it's something that I bring to the table. It's something that makes me unique. It shows the world who I truly am.

  

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• We all love to be admired and given compliments, but I don't really keep track.

  

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• Tap dancing is something I love, and I've been working on it to get really good.

  

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• I am excited to work with Vikas. Whenever I tell people that I am doing a film with director of 'Queen,' they are like, 'Wow, good for you.' That makes me feel really good, and I feel fortunate to be the chosen one.

  

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• Sometimes a good love song can change the world and create positive energy more than any political song can.

  

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• I had to think long and hard about what it would imply, what it would mean. Would it mean any alterations of one's lifestyle? Or, more than that, the way that people regarded you? The way they reacted to you if you had a Sir in front of your name?

  

  Derek Jacobi
  • People
  • Long

• Sometimes you have to shake the tree in order to make things happen. And if that has a political cost, I will take it, as long as it saves lives.

  

  Carmen Yulin Cruz
  • Long
  • Political
  • Tree