Bill Flores Quotes
My family came from Spain in 1725, and if people want to consider me Hispanic, they can, but I didn't advertise that way, and I'm an American first.
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I spend all my time right now trying to combat music retail and copyright.
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Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.
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I have this kind of mild nice-guy exterior, but inside my heart is like a steel trap.
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The difference in the quality of medical care received by people with mental illness is one of the reasons why they live shorter lives than people without mental illness. Even in the best-resourced countries in the world, this life expectancy gap is as much as 20 years. In the developing countries of the world, this gap is even larger.
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I was really a charmer; I was the guy who would get to the office, the principal would sit me down and within 10 minutes, we'd be, like, talking about some movies or something.
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Luckily, I was raised by people who'd already seen all the yuck stuff, which is why they originally didn't want me to act. I understood the difference between getting a part at a Hollywood party and getting a job.
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Usually people are questioning my athleticism more than my femininity!
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My parents' long and happy marriage was a great ideal to live up to, but a tough one.
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Most practical jokes, I'll feel too bad for the other person so I'll stop just before the punchline.
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Having robbed children of any sense that their Father is in Heaven and that they are His creation, we then launched an experiment in raising them without earthly fathers too. Having neither a Father in heaven or a father in the home, many young men make gangs their families.
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I have a lot of friends who do what I do. Either they're actresses or singers or things like that.
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Marinating chicken in miso adds lots of character to the meat with little work.
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Intellectuals try to keep going. But their situation is very difficult. Those who have had the courage to voice their opposition have often paid a very high price.
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Let's have some new cliches.
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Heartache is very fertile ground for song-making but so is happiness, so is absolute bliss.
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The Fourth of July should be celebrated with big hearts.
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Today it is becoming increasingly apparent to thoughtful Americans that we cannot fight the forces and ideas of imperialism abroad and maintain any form of imperialism at home. The war has done this to our thinking.
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If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it empty, he gets actors.
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Americans no longer look to government for economic security; rather, they look to their portfolios.
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Small debts are like small shot; they are rattling on every side, and can scarcely be escaped without a wound: great debts are like cannon; of loud noise, but little danger.
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The successful business executive can handle challenges and solve problems at a remarkable clip.
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I'm like a really goofy home ec teacher.
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As a kid, I loved to sing along to the Drifters and Otis Redding.
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My family came from Spain in 1725, and if people want to consider me Hispanic, they can, but I didn't advertise that way, and I'm an American first.
