"I always tell people that I became a writer not because I went to school but because my mother took me to the library. I wanted to become a writer so I could see my name in the card catalog."

-- Sandra Cisneros

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“It's basically me saying to the industry that I won't work within the walls in hip-hop. I want to put a twist on things, and that's what that song is all about. It's about putting a twist on stereotypes.”
“I studied engineering in the national university, the Universidad Autonoma, in San Ildefonso.”
“The most important thing in the world for show business, really, you know everything's a high-tech business, but what people want now is what they can't get - exclusivity.”
“It's crazy how intelligent kids can be at a very young age and how they know what they know. I came out of the womb drawing on everything; I used to draw on my mother's white furniture and her white walls with her red lipstick and my pencils. Little did she know that would later materialize into me doing what I do now - I'm a painter as well and a micromechanical engineer.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Power lies in reason, resolution, and truth. No matter how long the tyrant endures, he will be the loser at the end.”
“I had a terrible time with feminists in the Seventies. They hated me, those women. I think they hated everything.”
“I measure my life in pages. If I have pages at dawn, it's been a good night.”
“The nature of technology depends very much upon what the public can be induced to put up with.”

Source : Joan Robinson (1973). “Economic heresies: some old-fashioned questions in economic theory”

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