Jai Rodriguez Quotes
I had said to some pastor that I was having thoughts, and the church turned on me. They went to my mom and said, So sorry about your son.
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It was inevitable at some point that I would bump into one of my father's plays. The reality of the situation is that I'm a jobbing actor, and any actor would give their eye-teeth to have one of those roles. It's a no-brainer! I'm pleased the stars have aligned around 'Arcadia.'
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Often I play, especially on television, a lot of smart lawyer people and cerebral types.
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I try to be as ignorant about things as I can.
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Programs like food stamps, unemployment insurance, Medicaid, and job retraining help Americans get back on their feet when they are down and out and laid off through no fault of their own.
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On the one hand, the rich look askance at our continuing poverty - on the other, they warn us against their own methods.
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Hungary is, in a word, in a state of WAR against the Hapsburg dynasty, a war of legitimate defence, by which alone it can ever regain independence and freedom.
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I had my father, and he was an amazing man and an amazing role model, so I always wanted to mirror that.
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I think the films we see, the Hollywood films, which are basically entertainment, will still be there, but they'll be in a totally different category. People won't take them seriously. They'll kind of end up the way comic books have. A side view of things.
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My writing has been largely concerned with the depicting of Negro life in America.
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There is a liberal fascism that is dedicated to going after believing Christians who follow the biblical teaching on marriage.
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I've worked so hard for so long, and everyone's reaction has made me feel like... almost like they trust me, which is just a wonderful feeling. It pushes me to write things better and better.
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The thing is, the Tulsa experience that I wrote about in 'The Outsiders' is closer to the universal experience than it would be if I wrote it from L.A. or New York. It's an everyman story.
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Controversial means somebody who makes people think. And if you are afraid of people who will be against you, you might as well stay home and do nothing.
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I would love to have been a painter in the tradition of the surrealist painters who I admire so much.
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It's very simple. You have to be faithful to your other half and not have secrets. That's my rule.
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IQ is a commodity, data is a commodity. I'm far more interested in watching people interact at a restaurant with their smartphone. We can all read 'Tech Crunch,' 'Ad Age.' I would rather be living in the trenches. I would rather be going to Whole Foods in Columbus Circle to watch people shop with their smartphones.
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We have real enemies in the world. These enemies must be found. They must be pursued and they must be defeated.
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Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
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If I were to leave the U.S., I'd live in England. But I'd never leave the U.S. I own a 400-acre farm in Macon, Georgia. I raise cattle and hogs. I own horses, too. I love horses as much as singing. I like to hunt on horseback.
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Time and again, a student will send me an urgent appeal to hear her, saying she is poor and wants my advice as to whether it is worthwhile to continue her studies. I invariably refuse such requests, saying that if the student could give up her work on my advice, she had better give it up without it.
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We still have a lot of work to do when it comes to democracy. We have political democracy but not economic democracy.
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The World is what we think it is. If we can change our thoughts, we can change the world.
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I had said to some pastor that I was having thoughts, and the church turned on me. They went to my mom and said, So sorry about your son.
