Cristina Henriquez Quotes
Immigration is a system and a set of policies. And immigrants are the people behind those policies and behind that system, and the human stories.
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I'm not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did.
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I'm just a black hole for stuff. No one should ever hand me anything, because I get so easily distracted. I'll be like, 'Oh, look, something shiny!' I'm glad I never learned how to drive. I would be really dangerous.
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We're proud to be lifetime musicians and a band that lives like a band and loves the music and gives our lives to it.
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I'm a Ninja. I'm not scared of death.
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Sustainable development is the pathway to the future we want for all. It offers a framework to generate economic growth, achieve social justice, exercise environmental stewardship and strengthen governance.
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My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.
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The lives of African-Americans in this country are characterized by violence for most of our history. Much of that violence, at least to some extent, you know, done by the very state that's supposed to protect them.
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He that strives to touch the starts, oft stumbles at a straw.
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The search for the truth for truth's sake is the mark of the historian.
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The more research you do, the more at ease you are in the world you're writing about. It doesn't encumber you, it makes you free.
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A lot of cats in New Orleans, very soulful, very soulful musicians and they assume that they're singers. And they just make that assumption. And so when there's a little intonation problem, people are very forgiving of them because they heard how soulful they play.
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You can't trust water: Even a straight stick turns crooked in it.
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I like second chances. I've given people second chances. You have fall-outs with friends, and forgiveness is a great thing to have. It's not easy to forgive. I definitely don't forget, but I do forgive.
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Why do I always choose the shopping cart with the squeaky wheel? Is it my bad luck, or are all the carts dysfunctional?
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It was weird - writing is a stupid thing to do. I come up here in the morning to a pleasant room in the roof of my house and imagine I'm a black South American football superstar; then I have to imagine I'm a female pop celebrity who's pregnant. It's a completely mad way to spend your time.
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It's the federal government's job to secure the border.
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I just like doing comedies, and think that my timing and love for the genre set me apart from other young women who look like me.
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Various channels of dialogue must be kept open to build trust. I will meet North Korea's leader if it is needed to develop relations between the two Koreas.
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The union of the mind and intuition which brings about illumination, and the development which the Sufis seek, is based upon love.
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Histories of ages past Unenlightened shadows cast. Down through all eternity The crying of humanity. 'Tis then when the Hurdy Gurdy Man Comes singing songs of love...
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Overly vigorous investigations of ominously ill-defined 'bullying' can themselves constitute a form of bullying.
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Politicians know that structural reforms - to increase competition, foster innovation, and drive institutional change - are the way to tackle structural impediments to growth. But they know that while the pain from reform is immediate, gains are typically delayed and their beneficiaries uncertain.
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Don't worry that other people don't know you; worry that you don't know other people.
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Immigration is a system and a set of policies. And immigrants are the people behind those policies and behind that system, and the human stories.
