Cristela Alonzo Quotes
I'm not trying to represent the whole Latino community. There are too many different cultures, and Latinos will always say, 'My family doesn't do that.'
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Beethoven's importance in music has been principally defined by the revolutionary nature of his compositions. He freed music from hitherto prevailing conventions of harmony and structure.
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I hate to witness animals in captivity - or see circus elephants paraded down the streets. When animals are caged, it's a loss of what they are.
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If you can get yourself where you're not afraid of dying, then you can move forward a lot faster.
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And my mouth is not a sewer, although some people may think it is.
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I lead a normal life and I don't assume there is anything I can impart to people. The only reason to write a book would be to make money, and I don't want to do that. To write a book would be going against how I've lived.
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I'd never been published when I was young.
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To be successful in struggle requires remembrance of the Creator and the doing of good deeds. This is important because successful struggle demands that there be a kind of social consciousness.
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So I have this ability, if I may say so, to spot talent.
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Filipinos are not worse than any other colonized people except that our colonization was a little longer, and the independence movement was always dictated in political terms, never in social ones. We borrowed terms, but we didn't understand them.
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Of course the United States and Russia have different interests. Nevertheless, both are strategic partners.
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In the '70s I was in exile; every time I went back I wondered if they'd take my passport away.
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My senior year of high school, I got into UCLA, but my family couldn't afford it.
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Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.
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I've become the hunted. I'm enjoying that. It's better to be the hunted than the hunter.
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Our world is increasingly interdependent and pluralistic, and in order to ensure a civil future, we must get to know one another.
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He read his mind. He's a strange sort of man, isn't he? It's not just the advice and the wisdom that he has.
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My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process.
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Poverty is not the simple result of bad geography, bad culture, bad history. It's the result of us: of the ways that people choose to organize their societies.
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The great man is not the child of his age but its step-child.
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I'm much more shy than most of my family.
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We built Bonobos, with more than a few dozen customers and counting, and the industry we were disrupting didn't seem to care. Then we 'sold out' to Walmart. Abracadabra. The red carpet rolled open.
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My accent depends on whom I'm around.
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I'm not trying to represent the whole Latino community. There are too many different cultures, and Latinos will always say, 'My family doesn't do that.'
