"The minute he spoke Spanish, I said, "I'm home.""

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Harriet Doerr

#Home Quotes #Minutes Quotes #Spokes Quotes

“"If any man thirst, let him come and drink from the rivers of living water" (cf. John 7:38). Where shall he who thirsts come? To heretics where the fountain and river of water is in no way life-giving? Or to the Church, which is One?”
“We don't have a refugee crisis in America; we have a racism crisis here.”
“I was only in one of the John Hughes films, and I never saw the other ones. I didn't understand them. I kept hearing a really hip 40-year-old person talking in teenagers' mouths.”
“...do not the bewitching power of all studies lie in that they continually open up to us new, unsuspected horizons, not yet understood, which entice us to proceed further and further in the penetration of what appears at first sight only in vague outline?”
“No one likes a show-off, but if parallel parking was an Olympic sport, I would get gold, no probs.”
“The game of power is played remorselessly by men who have not the slightest knowledge of, or interest in, the way ordinary people live, and the ordinary people are too terrified to protest.”
“My obsession is to make women beautiful. When you create with that in mind, things can't go out of fashion.”
“When you do 'Mad Fat Diary' or 'The Village,' you always learn about the particular time period, and that's always nice for an actor.”

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