Ian Williams Quotes
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I think the three Mexican directors - Alejandro Inarritu, Alfonso Cuaron, Guillermo del Toro - gave all of us foreign, and particularly Latino, directors a big break.
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I wanted to get away from the Mexican vernacular and do more 'nuevo Latino.' Americans are starting to understand regionality in Mexican food. It is very regional in terms of ingredients.
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The rigid cause themselves to be broken; the pliable cause themselves to be bound.
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The mind and the voice by themselves are not sufficient.
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There are some people, who place enormous value on their home and feel that it defines them, that a stain on the carpet is a personal defilement. There are others, and I think I am one of them, who are entirely indifferent to where they live.
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There is a tendency for things to right themselves.
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My father was always telling himself no one was perfect, not even my mother.
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One of the hardest things for me, now that I'm famous, is finding people who can read my stuff and give me an honest critique.
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I grill, like, every day.
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I still have a lot to learn about what the love of Christ is like - that it's not just knowledge... but it's allowing the truth to change you - allowing Christ's message of grace and hope and love through the cross, that that message is the message that changes the way we look at everything in our lives.
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In the late 1960s, Ontario Airport was a throwback to a bygone era. Located 35 miles east of downtown Los Angeles, the airport served only two carriers, Western and Bonanza. Passengers could catch regional flights to San Francisco, Sacramento, Las Vegas, Palm Springs, Phoenix and Los Angeles, and that was about it.
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What small potatoes we all are, compared with what we might be!
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I would never have thought that would happen, ... Remember, when I signed with the Giants in 1955, it was only eight years since Jackie Robinson. But when I talk to Latino players today, a lot of them don't even realize how hard it was for us then.
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Sometimes people need to lie to themselves most of all.
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I don't want to be pitted as a person who is anti-Latino or anti-Hispanic because I believe in the laws.
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The worst thing you can do for those you love is the things they could and should do themselves.
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The last person one wants to be is themselves. Sadly, that is the best person to be.
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Great minds think for themselves.
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Time and again I hear how important the darker environment is to those at our vintage-faith worship gathering. Attenders feel they can freely pray in a corner by themselves without feeling that everyone is staring at them.
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To a profound pessimist about life, being in danger is not depressing.
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I agree with... actually it was [Joseph] Stalin who said that [Winston Churchill] he was a man who changed the history of the world and I think, if he had not been there in 1940, it might very well have been the case that we would have collapsed like France, and I shall honor him always for that.
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In a world where people are equal, I feel it's important to have strong male characters, counterparts. Equality is important. It's about compatibility and compassion. And it's amazing.
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There are not many things in my life I can be absolutely proud of or certain I got right, but one of them is that I've got better as an actor. I've learnt how to do it. And I still have enough energy to do it.
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Juan and Andres pledge themselves to a Latino empowerment organization.
