Carmen Yulin Cruz Quotes
My job is to make life better for people, and you cannot make life better if you are in a helicopter. You can't make life better for them if you can't touch them.
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The true Christian is called to be a soldier and must behave as such from the day of his conversion to the day of his death. He is not meant to live a life of religious ease, indolence and security. He must never imagine for a moment that he can sleep and doze along the way to heaven, like one traveling in an easy carriage.
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The Prophet defeated the enemies of Islam even when he and his followers were small in number.
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I don't think that any political party should claim Jesus as being a part of a political party.
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In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is.
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I breathe martial arts every day of my life.
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I'm the type of person, I have to study to get an A on the test.
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Take, for example, the African jungle, the home of the cheetah. On whom does the cheetah prey? The old, the sick, the wounded, the weak, the very young, but never the strong. Lesson: If you would not be prey, you had better be strong.
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There's so much hate that we direct externally that we forget we have our own psychos. But that's the role of the satirist - you have to examine your own country and say, 'look!'
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Ireland was, of old, called the Isle of Saints because of the great number of holy ones of both sexes who flourished there in former ages or who, coming thence, propagated the faith amongst other nations.
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With the coaches, you don't want to hear everybody saying, 'Move over! Back up! Do this!' Let's find out what the players know.
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As someone who works from home, my top style tip is to make sure you get dressed in the morning.
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I knew I wanted considerable education so that I wouldn't have to work as hard as my parents.
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The essential lesson I've learned in life is to just be yourself. Treasure the magnificent being that you are and recognize first and foremost you're not here as a human being only. You're a spiritual being having a human experience.
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When you watch 'Ray Donovan,' you think that it's about Hollywood, about scandal, about stars, and about trying to keep secrets. That's true, but that's also just the means by which you reveal secrets of the people suffering every day life.
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Being confident in your own skin is very sexy. I think when you have fun and are yourself that is sexy too.
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If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress.
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Brands who come to China, often they just care about price - so they actually drive the suppliers to cut corners on environmental standards to win a contract.
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People in Hollywood are going make pictures where ever it's the least expensive to make them.
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Kids' hearts are malleable, but once they gel it's hard to get them back the way they were.
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Many African leaders refuse to send their troops on peace keeping missions abroad because they probably need their armies to intimidate their own populations.
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For very few people is there a time when you, quote unquote, make it.
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People feel politics isn't about their lives.
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Many of our holidays revolve around traumas that happened to our people and how we must remember them in specific ways. The way these stories are told and what we take away from them can change, and do in certain contexts, but overall I am not sure whether Jews want to let go of the narrative of the victim.
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My job is to make life better for people, and you cannot make life better if you are in a helicopter. You can't make life better for them if you can't touch them.
