Jai Rodriguez Quotes
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Cutting the deficit by gutting our investments in innovation and education is like lightening an overloaded airplane by removing its engine. It may make you feel like you're flying high at first, but it won't take long before you feel the impact.
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Society is the body; individuals are its members, its limbs. Just as the various limbs help and co-operate with one another and thus are happy, so each must unite with others in being helpful to all in thought, speech and action... One may see to the good of one's own group, i.e., the group that is immediate to him, and then proceed to others.
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I was never really acting. I was not taking it seriously. Acting was very much a hobby for me. It wasn't really until I was finishing college and doing it sporadically that I began to take it seriously.
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But I think boys ultimately are easier than girls.
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It has been very good here, but the World Cup game was different. It had a different significance to it.
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Normally, young writers have all the time in the world and they don't always use it well.
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The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.
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I'm a lot more observational than personal in my writing. My writing is mostly a lot of questions without answers.
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If I can save one kid's life, for me, it's absolutely worth it.
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You have one big mythology in your favor: Everyone believes that you Europeans are impeccable. But I know you are jerks.
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You don't need to be a spook to care about encryption. If you travel with your computer or keep it in a place where other people can put their hands on it, you're vulnerable.
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I've actually had a copilot come out of the cockpit on a trip from L.A. to New York and ask me about Charles Manson.
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I believe that Obamacare is bad for America.
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I wanted to go to New York and be a stage actress, doing things like Chekhov. None of that happened, and then I went to L.A. and an agent said, 'I think you belong in commercials and TV.' So I did that and got some opportunities that I absolutely love.
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I really like working, the opportunity to work with good people and to play interesting parts.
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I have ideas all of the time from the beginning, but they never really wind up turning out like I thought they would.
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The heart of the 2008 financial crisis was a coterie of reckless financial executives, working for too-big-to-fail financial companies, who were handsomely compensated for taking risks that almost ruined the economy when they failed.
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I think I passed up a lot of opportunities for love because I was too interested in identity politics.
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I went out in my goddamn underwear too!
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In order to be one of the best defensive linemen in the NFL - which I am - it's doing things that other people aren't willing to do.
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Cordless vacuums are designed for quick jobs, but you need enough power to do the job; you don't want the power waning over time.
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As a director, you have to know what actors are doing. You're the one telling them what to do. The actors' job is to come prepared to the set, but sometimes, if they're beginning actors or people who are non-actors, you have to teach them how to act.
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I have transported many, thousands; and to all of them, my river has been nothing but an obstacle on their travels. They travelled to seek money and business, and for weddings, and on pilgrimages, and the river was obstructing their path, and the ferryman's job was to get them quickly across that obstacle. But for some among thousands, a few, four or five, the river has stopped being an obstacle, they have heard its voice, they have listened to it, and the river has become sacred to them, as it has become sacred to me.
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I have to stay humble. I'm just a normal human with a job that is televised.
