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Ileana Ros-Lehtinen Quotes

I believe in the promise of America. Being a Cuban refugee, having come here when I was eight, I know that this is a shining city on the hill.

Ileana Ros-Lehtinen

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: politician
Nationality: american
Birth: July 15, 1952

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City Believe America Know Hill Here

It's always a pleasure to perform for people who love country music. And Australians definitely fall into that category. Each time I go back, I learn something new about the country, and I get to see some of the most beautiful places on the planet.

Love Music Beautiful Time People

I don't know what issues concerning identity have helped contemporary fiction evolve to what it is now. All I know is that the range of voices that are being heard and published is a lot more diverse than when I was coming up.

Jessica Hagedorn

Identity Know Now More Up Evolve

I have repeatedly said, when asked, that if the stories about me helped inspired our troops and rally a nation, then perhaps there was some good.

Good Me Said Nation Inspired Rally

One can see that a canvas is six feet by eight feet, say, quite accurately. But you can spend two minutes and think it's five, or thirty seconds and it's just a different bed for activities there.

Robert Rauschenberg

Feet Think You Bed Say Thirty

I wanted - and still want - to tell my mother's story. She fled Stalin's army in 1944, leaving Latvia, which was to be occupied by the Soviets for the next 50 years, and arrived to the U.S. when she was 11.

Mother Story Army Want Leaving She

I love working with Alec Baldwin. He's one of the five greatest actors ever to live.

Love Live Greatest Working Five He

Many of the Universities have very good Theatre Departments these days.

Good Theatre Days Universities Many

When I have a family, I will be retired.

Lizzie Armitstead

Family Will Retired

On the road, you can't really develop a personal life.

Life Road You Personal Personal Life

The primary job for women in Hollywood is still super-attractive actress. That is the most high-profile women's job in Hollywood.

Women Job Hollywood Actress Still

Other people are talking about writing books about my life, or about some of the things I've done. I find it strange, but I also feel it's my life and my story, and I guess I better be the one to get it on paper the way it actually happened.

Life People Writing Story Better

As he approached his 28th birthday in February 1840, Dickens knew himself to be famous, successful and tired. He needed a rest, and he made up his mind to keep the year free of the pressure of producing monthly installments of yet another long novel.

Birthday Tired Mind February Rest

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