Cristela Alonzo Quotes
It might sound dramatic and a little grandiose, but as a Latina, I would like to be someone that gives a voice to my culture.
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We no longer dare to believe in beauty and we make of it a mere appearance in order the more easily to dispose of it.
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Nevertheless, there is another threat on the horizon. I see this threat in environmentalism which is becoming a new dominant ideology, if not a religion. Its main weapon is raising the alarm and predicting the human life endangering climate change based on man-made global warming.
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Back in 1999 and 2000, a few of us... a very few of us... Douglas Clegg, Seth Godin and I... offered free electronic copies of our books in an effort to reach an audience we otherwise wouldn't have reached and to test out a new marketing concept for books. Despite the industry screaming we were crazy, it worked.
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The people I admire unreservedly are my parents. They are the real pioneers of Africa in many ways. They were born and raised in rural Africa during the colonial period. They are the ones who came to the U.S. long before I did.
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Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning.
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You don't need to wear Spanx if you buy my clothes. The dress, the trousers, the pencil skirt - they should do the work.
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Everyone asks me if I'm the princess or if my brothers beat me up. The younger ones I can deck pretty easily. With the older ones, it's harder.
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The mud is cold when you're in the north of Scotland!
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I take certain steps to make sure I'm relevant artistically. I always have new music and a reason to be on the road. I'm not just playing 'Get By' over and over. I have 12 albums.
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Sound as medium has an incredible elasticity. So, of course, it is tempting for artists of other fields to try something with sounds. Why not? We are living in the age when there is no limit in gathering all forms of art and music to mix it together if you so desire.
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It is through gratitude for the present moment that the spiritual dimension of life opens up.
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I've had horrible days where you wake up with a zit, and you have to film, and it's terrible.
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The history of Europe over the last several centuries provides clear evidence of the transformative power of commerce.
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However old-fashioned and right-wing this may sound, the American genius for language lies in understatement, in saying things simply, pointedly and quickly, and in making new and clean and swift what otherwise might be ponderous, round and slow.
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I started to wear the sunglasses all the time at school, hiding behind them... I'd walk down the hallways, practically hugging the wall, dragging my head against it like I was crazy.
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I didn't really have a mentor, but I have always definitely been inspired by the '70s - the Stones, Patti Smith, Anita Pallenberg.
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I do read all my work aloud as I'm working - this has made it a little hard to adjust to my husband's retirement. I can shout the shouty parts if I'm alone in the house, but of course, I feel a fool if someone is there to hear me.
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The big thing in my family growing up is that everybody had to play a musical instrument. We were like the von Trapps.
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I'm not a great believer in awards-of course the fact that I've never won one has nothing to do with it at all!
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Stereotyping of any race or culture is narrow-minded, and I can't wait to help break the shackles.
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I think way back, the '20s or the '30s, when Kodak came out with the Brownie and they put a list of instructions on the box, like how to use this thing, I think someone arbitrarily said, 'Make sure the person in the photograph is smiling.' And we went from that one sort of set of industrial instructions to this whole culture of perkiness.
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I want the privilege of guiding the arrows of my children and giving them the exhortations that can shoot them into the high place.
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Every society, all government, and every kind of civil compact therefore, is or ought to be, calculated for the general good and safety of the community.
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It might sound dramatic and a little grandiose, but as a Latina, I would like to be someone that gives a voice to my culture.
