Danny Trejo Quotes
I'd always rather be working - and you know what? My kids would rather me be working. If I stay at home, I'll only buy another car or spend their money.
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My career is a black comedy of sorts. I spent a lot of time explaining myself to various different groups. But more and more, I'm finding that the desire to communicate, which all these audiences share, is a powerful thing.
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A lot of business can be accomplished in the state dinners.
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Do you follow American politics? They hate Obama. Hate him. He's a black man. That's what it is: it's racist. This guy is no bleeding-heart liberal. He's a centrist.
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I know you can be up one minute and drop the next, so I'm trying to maintain a steady course so I can have some longevity.
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Whenever a film allows you to think and feel and take it beyond the moment, I think it's achieved something. And 'Funny Games' does that.
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It's been tough for me being away from the game.
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The civil rights movement wasn't easy for anybody.
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My dad's a Jew, and my mom's a WASP, so that should pretty much say it all. It was a comically dysfunctional family.
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I've eaten ice cream from all over the world, but until you've tasted Graham's from Geneva, Illinois, you haven't had ice cream at all.
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Homosexuality in Russia is a crime and the punishment is seven years in prison, locked up with the other men. There is a three year waiting list.
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You don't make it anywhere without someone helping you out.
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My parents were no ordinary people. My mother turned Gandhian, and my father was a staunch communist. They named me after the great saint as a symbol of communal harmony.
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Part of spiritual and emotional maturity is recognizing that it's not like you're going to try to fix yourself and become a different person. You remain the same person, but you become awakened.
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Being on TV is similar to being an athlete. You get no second chances.
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Rock and roll music - the music of freedom frightens people and unleashes all manner of conservative defense mechanisms.
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My last book, 'The Language of Flowers,' I wrote completely on naptime, when my little kids were asleep.
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It's definitely a necessity to make split-second decisions when you're doing gymnastics because things don't always go perfect.
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Cervantes married in 1584, when he was thirty-seven and Catalina was nineteen. The marriage lasted thirty years, but Cervantes may have spent only about half of them with his wife.
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Television has shied away from being too dark, because so much has happened to us recently here in the West, and people are sort of wanting to see more uplifting sorts of things.
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Duchamp named the mobiles and Arp the stabiles. Arp said, 'What did you call those things you exhibited last year? Stabiles?'
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Start with God - the first step in learning is bowing down to God; only fools thumb their noses at such wisdom and learning.
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When we give our lives to Jesus Christ, the things of earth grow strangely dim. The values of eternity grow increasingly bright.
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And I really do believe that the most important thing is the way you live your life on earth. But I think it's enormously comforting to believe that you're going to see your loved ones.
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I'd always rather be working - and you know what? My kids would rather me be working. If I stay at home, I'll only buy another car or spend their money.
