I think that people assumed I was white because of my last name. My father is Caucasian, my mother is Hispanic. But English was my second language, believe it or not.
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ROBERT ZIMMERMAN It took probably a month before he would actually sleep through the night without waking up and cryi... SARAH ZIMMERMAN Self love is the only way to a high quality love life. The quality of men and love relationships you... JANET ONG ZIMMERMAN There is no perfect love. There is only a right kind of love. This kind of love cares for your well-... JANET ONG ZIMMERMAN It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived. GEORGE My grandmother lived to 104 years old, and part of her success was she woke up every morning to a br... GEORGE TAKEI Every historian discloses a new horizon. GEORGE SAND The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart. GEORGE SAND Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble. GEORGE WASHINGTON First you forget names, then you forget faces. Next you forget to pull your zipper up and finally, y... 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GEORGE SANTAYANA People who say they don't care what people think are usually desperate to have people think they... GEORGE CARLIN I was doing a civil rights musical here in Los Angeles, and we sang at one of the rallies where Dr. ... GEORGE TAKEI