Yaritza Castro Quotes & Sayings

They know what the Destroyer learned a long time ago - lying in bed doesn't rehabilitate anyone. — Adele Levine

Quite often my narrator or protagonist may be a man, but I'm not sure he's the more interesting character, or if the more complex character isn't the woman. — Ann Beattie

A commitment to love and justice demands the transformation of social structures as well as of hearts. — Mary E. Hunt

The secret language of statistics, so appealing in a fact-minded culture, is employed to sensationalize, inflate, confuse, and oversimplify. Statistical terms and statistical methods are necessary in reporting the mass data of social and economic trends, business conditions, 'opinion' polls, the census. But without writers who use the words with honesty and understanding and readers who know what they mean, the result can only be semantic nonsense. — Darrell Huff

If this is vise I want no virtue.
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I know what happiness is possible to me on earth. And my happiness needs no higher aim to vindicate it. My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own purpose.
Neither am I the means to any end others may wish to accomplish. I am not a tool for their use. I am not a servant of their needs. I am not a bandage for their wounds. I am not a sacrifice on their altars.
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But what is freedom? Freedom from what? There is nothing to take a man's freedom away from him, save other men. To be free, a man must be free of his brothers. That is freedom. That and nothing else. — Ayn Rand

Never camp by the edge of a waterhole"; "don't screw with hippos"; "baboons are like German shepherds on crack"; — Marilyn Johnson

I have not given much credence to reviews of my films. Sometimes they're wrong, but it didn't matter to me. — Irvin Kershner

I think I look nicer now. It's really weird cause when you're 21 you think, "Oh God, when I'm 36, oh God, that's nearly 40, and I'll look really old and wrinkly by then". And actually I quite like the way I look. I feel OK about myself these days. — Kate Winslet

I refuse to be labeled immoral merely because I am godless. — Madam C. J. Walker