Laura Esquivel Quotes

Tradition is an element that enters into play with destiny, because you are born into a particular family - Jewish or Islamic or Christian or Mexican - and your family determines to some extent what you are expected to become. And society is always there attempting to determine the role we will play within it.

Laura Esquivel

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: mexican
  • Birth: September 30, 1950

Topics

FamilySocietyDestinyChristianYou

Being unconscious is the ultimate disability.

Jessa Gamble

DisabilityBeingUnconsciousUltimate

Listen, I think what's best for the economy and to create jobs is to extend all of the current tax rates - for all Americans. It - it begins to reduce the uncertainty. And for small businesspeople, they can look up and begin to plan.

John Boehner

BestSmallUncertaintyThinkPlan

I knew tech was going to be increasingly important in my lifetime, so I focused on it early.

Robert Scoble

EarlyImportantFocusedGoingTech

I caddied for Dwight Eisenhower and Omar Bradley long before they became generals or president, for that matter. Just between you and me, Bradley tipped better than Eisenhower did.

John Henrik Clarke

MeBetterLongYouMatterPresident

Since the global financial crisis and recession of 2007-2009, criticism of the economics profession has intensified. The failure of all but a few professional economists to forecast the episode - the aftereffects of which still linger - has led many to question whether the economics profession contributes anything significant to society.

Robert J. Shiller

FailureEconomicsSocietyCriticism

Close friends, or those in my pay, sometimes call me a literary polymath, while others say that I'm just a shallow dilettante, superficial and breezy, with a faux-naif style.

Michael Dirda

StyleMeFriendsSometimesSayPay

Nest really came out of a process where I was trying to design the most connected and the most green home that I knew of. I was curious of just about everything that goes into a home and building a home.

Tony Fadell

HomeCuriousGreenBuildingDesign

The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination.

Robert Frost

PowerControlViolenceMaintenance

Just over 800 people were gathered around the cooking stage, all eager to learn about my five-minute flavor cooking. The demonstration had to be done right then and there, in front of everyone.

Rocco DiSpirito

CookingPeopleLearnDoneRight

Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy - and that is life.

Jean Anouilh

LifeLoveLove IsEnoughYouFind

Those who have the ability as African men to bring a change in a community that so desperately needs it are concentrating only on their own careers, some charities, and how much money they can make.

Don Yaeger

ChangeCommunityMoneyMenAbility

I've never been a big gore guy.

Jon Bernthal

NeverBigGuyBeenGore

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