"People think [immigration] is only about the dollar, but it's so much more complex. This is a place where you can reinvent yourself. I don't know that you can do that anywhere else."

-- Esmeralda Santiago

#Thinking Quotes #People Quotes #Immigration Quotes

“I want to sing simple things for the simple lives of simple people.”

Source : "Julio Iglesias mounting 'comeback' with new versions of his famous songs". www.thestar.com. August 24, 2012.
“Every time I'd go out drinking I was looking for something new. But it was the same every time. I'd wake up in some bed with some person, I had a hangover and a show to do. And the truth is, it was the same every time. But now life is... pretty interesting without the alcohol.”
“My mother once told me I was like water. Water can carve its way even through stone. And when trapped, water makes a new path.”
“After the accident Black Sheep was pretty much at an end.”
“The population of the United Kingdom has, for the first time, reached sixty million. If they stood on each other's shoulders they would reach perhaps twenty feet in the air before toppling over.”

Source : "PM" with Eddie Mair, BBC4, August 24, 2006.
“No matter what happens, you can get through this day. Inhale. Focus on the word, 'relax. Exhale. Say, 'I can do this!' And then do it.”
“Unlike any other visual image, a photograph is not a rendering, an imitation or an interpretation of its subject, but actually a trace of it. No painting or drawing, however naturalist, belongs to its subject in the way that a photograph does.”
“The only time I think I've ever gotten sick of playing Guns and Roses songs really was during - after having played them in Guns and Roses, and then in Snakepit, and then playing 'It's So Easy' and 'Brownstone' in Velvet Revolver.”

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