Cristina Saralegui Quotes
For me, the American promise isn't just an idea or a theory - it's my life story.
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Don't program yourself to break down as you age with thoughts that decline is inevitable. Time may be passing for our bodies, but because they house our ageless souls, we never need to see ourselves as old and infirm.
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The tragedy of all of this is that it happened to me and it shouldn't have happened. It ruined my life and my career. That's the tragedy of this.
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You will die but the carbon will not; its career does not end with you. It will return to the soil, and there a plant may take it up again in time, sending it once more on a cycle of plant and animal life.
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I did a lot of little girl groups here and there just to get more comfortable on stage. When you're in girl groups, it's a lot different because if you mess up, there's someone on stage to back you up, and finally I got to a point where I knew I could do it on my own.
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The rich don't win elections. They support the money, but what percentage of America are rich? What is it, 2 percent? But they all have one vote.
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Waste Management was based in Chicago, but I lived in Ft. Lauderdale and for 10 years had to commute to work - catch the 5 P.M. Sunday flight to Chicago and the midnight return flight on Friday.
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Illegitimacy is something we should talk about in terms of not having it.
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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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Television offered me the opportunity to do new things; I had written a lot of scripts other than scary movies. I had actually written some romantic comedies and stuff that I really wanted to try my hand at, and nobody would let me do that. Television allowed me to do anything I wanted.
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I don't feel closeted.
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One has to have the courage of one's pessimism.
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Cussing ain't for everybody.
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Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.
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A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.
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I wanted to be on 'Saturday Night Live' since I was ten.
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We live in a frightened time, and people self-censor all the time and are afraid of going into some subjects because they are worried about violent reactions.
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If anything changes shape or takes off without me, I'll come after you and kill you. I'm too type A.
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I think that it helps that I have acted. That said, it doesn't mean you're going to be a good director.
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...talent and genius operate outside the rules, and theory conflicts with practice.
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To be a revolutionary you have to be a human being. You have to care about people who have no power.
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Ultimate explanation no longer means only a story that encompasses everything.
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Of course I believe imaginative architecture can make a difference to people's lives, but I wish it was possible to divert some of the effort we put into ambitious museums and galleries into the basic architectural building blocks of society.
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It's a cliche, but it's true that all the fun lies in baddies, grotesques and comic roles.
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For me, the American promise isn't just an idea or a theory - it's my life story.
