Cristela Alonzo Quotes

I did the 'Wizard of Oz' in third grade, and I was a witch.

Cristela Alonzo

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• Culturally, the First World War is the war that stands in for other wars.

  

  Pat Barker
  • World
  • War
  • First

• The world is getting to be such a dangerous place, a man is lucky to get out of it alive.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • World
  • Man
  • Lucky

• It's amazing how a competitive nature can turn a negative into something positive.

  

  Barry Mann
  • Nature
  • Amazing
  • Positive

• We need to defend absolutely the freedom of speech.

  

  Patrick Chappatte
  • Freedom
  • Need
  • Speech

• The idea of a stag hunt evokes chivalry - knights in jerkins and hose, ladies on sidesaddles with wimples and billowing dresses, a white stag symbolizing something-or-other, and Robin Hood getting in the way. An actual stag hunt is more like a horseback meeting of a county planning commission.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Planning
  • Meeting
  • Hood

• I had made up my mind to find a woman to share my life: one who would leave London altogether and go with me into the green country and be satisfied.

  

  W. H. Davies
  • Life
  • Up
  • Country

• That is why we wholeheartedly support the American-led effort to free the people of Iraq. And though we are a small country with a small military, we are proud to stand side by side with our allies in the fight to end the reign of terror in Baghdad.

  

  Fatos Nano
  • People
  • Country
  • Why

• Kids can be born with potential but unless it's encouraged - pushed, even - I don't think it will ever come to fruition.

  

  Vanessa Mae
  • Kids
  • Think
  • Born

• The facts at hand presumably speak for themselves, but a trifle more vulgarly, I suspect, than facts even usually do.

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • Hand

• It was thinking about Casagemas's death that started me painting in blue.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Thinking
  • Death
  • Painting

• No one has ever suggested that tax exemption has converted libraries, art galleries, or hospitals into arms of the state or employees 'on the public payroll.' There is no genuine nexus between tax exemption and establishment of religion.

  

  Warren E. Burger
  • Art

• History is filled with examples of men and women who rendered highly effective performance without the conventional badges of accomplishment in terms of certificates, diplomas, or degrees. Diplomas and tests are useful servants, but Congress has mandated the commonsense proposition that they are not to become masters of reality.

  

  Warren E. Burger
  • Men
  • Women
  • History

• Strepsiades: But come, by the Earth, is not Zeus, the Olympian, a god? Socrates: What Zeus? Do not trifle. There is no Zeus. (tr. Hickie 1853, vol. 1, Perseus)

  

  Aristophanes
  • God
  • Earth

• Creature of special tastes, you do not wait for gout and fame to elevate you to a luxurious jubilee chair, but bear your triumph over the flowering heather, over wildernesses. And you are guilty of nothing: neither of this, that, nor anything..

  

  Anna Akhmatova
  • Guilty

• A sincere acquiescence in the dispensations of Providence will check discompusure of mind beyond any thing. It will produce a calm in the midst of a storm.

  

  Edward Jenner
  • Mind
  • Calm
  • Storm

• 'Finding Nemo' has spawned so many sort of emotions over the years. I don't even know that you could really understand exactly what parents and kids are seeing in it, but they can see a lot of different stuff.

  

  Albert Brooks
  • Different
  • Kids
  • Parents

• There are all kinds of directors I want to work with and all kinds of films that I want to do.

  

  Boyd Holbrook
  • Work

• I think multiple levels of undo would be wonderful, too.

  

  Bill Joy

• I dislike being an anvil for the hammering out of other people's virtues.

  

  Freya Stark
  • People
  • Virtue
  • Dislike

• People don't know that there were very successful black businessmen in the years of apartheid.

  

  Patrice Motsepe
  • People
  • Black
  • Successful

• We quickly erase hoaxes once exposed, excising the monstrous palimpsest, because as with any witch hunt or obvious fake, afterward we can't quite explain why we ever believed the outrageous thing in the first place.

  

  Kevin Young
  • Why
  • Fake
  • Witch

• People become house builders through building houses, harp players through playing the harp. We grow to be just by doing things which are just.

  

  Aristotle
  • People
  • Playing
  • Building

• Time was when people used to brag about how old they were - and I am old enough to remember it.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • People
  • Remember
  • Enough

• I did the 'Wizard of Oz' in third grade, and I was a witch.

  

  Cristela Alonzo
  • Witch