J. R. Ramirez Quotes
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Compassion is not a popular virtue. Very often when I talk to religious people, and mention how important it is that compassion is the key, that it's the sine-qua-non of religion, people look kind of balked, and stubborn sometimes, as much to say, what's the point of having religion if you can't disapprove of other people?
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I think the kind of unexpected I really love is when you open books and the actual way of writing is different and interesting. Like reading Virginia Woolf for the first time or Lawrence Durrell for the first time.
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I wanna create a character that's really memorable... like Julia Roberts did in 'Pretty Woman.'
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Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.
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The celebration of homeownership seems to be part of a countermovement against popular owning of shares in corporations.
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Comic book readers tend to be pretty secular and anti-authoritarian; nothing is above satire in their eyes.
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I have never sought the reason why I write.
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Acting is all about big hair and funny props... All the great actors knew it. Olivier knew it, Brando knew it.
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Why was there so much work-sharing in the 1930s? One reason is that government pushed for it. In his memoirs, President Herbert Hoover estimated that as many as two million workers avoided unemployment as a result of his efforts to promote work-sharing.
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As a boy, my favorite show was 'Superman' and my favorite movie was 'Star Wars' - along with other science fiction shows and movies. And I always wanted to fly.
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I like visualizing a lot, so the night before a competition and right before, I will visualize myself. I'll close my eyes, turn away from everybody, and just see myself doing exactly what I want to accomplish.
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I do really silly dancing. I love dancing, but I'm not cool when I dance. It's not about my moves, it's not about how cool I am, it's not about how slick I look on the dance floor, it's about having a great time.
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The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.
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When I say to you, there is nobody like me, and there never was, that is a statement I want every woman to feel and make about themselves.
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My father is a Jehovah's Witness, and he raised us under a very strict hand.
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I haven't done an international film for a long time.
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Then finally I said, 'Okay, well, I want to know all the details. I want creative input. I want to be consulted. I want to know what they're doing and who's involved. And I want to see the space.' So they took me to see it, and then I realized it was major! All these red flags on the Rue de Rivoli with my name on them right by the Louvre!
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Non-violence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction devised by the ingenuity of man.
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You, my Brown Guard, will regard it as a matter of course that this German people should go only by the way which Providence ordained for it when it gave to Germans the common language. So we go forward with the profoundest faith in God into the future. Would that which we have achieved have been possible if Providence had not helped us?
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The lack of diversity, specifically in genre films and the superheroes our kids grow up watching and emulating, they can't really identify with. When you see the same thing, over and over again, and it seems not to speak of you and your heritage and your culture, it leaves you out of this world a little bit.
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Are you at work?" I asked. Not precisely, but that's a good suggestion.
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I consider myself to be a very loyal person.
