Genesis Rodriguez Quotes

I'm bicultural, and everyone sees me as a Latina, but in my head I see myself as both Latina and American.

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• I had no intention of becoming a performer, and yet under miraculous circumstances I was brought into the music industry fold. If divine powers hadn't intervened, I'd still be living in China working in some area of Sino-American comparative law.

  

  Abigail Washburn
  • Music
  • American
  • Law

• In American films, Russians are often portrayed like cartoon villains without clear motivations.

  

  Yuliya Snigir
  • American
  • Often
  • Cartoon

• After Brown, I went to Duke, to a Ph.D. program in American literature. My dad's an English professor. After a year there, I was like, 'Jesus. I don't want to do this. I don't want to be in the library.' So I pulled the ripcord, and that was it.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • American
  • Dad
  • Jesus

• The adolescent protagonist is one of the hallmarks of American literature.

  

  Tayari Jones
  • American
  • Literature

• Much of the conventional wisdom associated with Vietnam was highly inaccurate. Far from an inevitable result of the imperative to contain communism, the war was only made possible through lies and deceptions aimed at the American public, Congress, and members of Lyndon Johnson's own administration.

  

  H. R. McMaster
  • American
  • War
  • Wisdom

• For fiction, I'm not particularly nationalistic. I'm not like the Hugo Chavez of Latin American letters, you know? I want people to read good work.

  

  Daniel Alarcon
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• I'm not expecting the American literary community to welcome me with open arms. To them I'm just some schmuck kid who wrote some book.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • Book
  • American
  • Community

• I just don't consider myself to be, you know, an American actor. I don't want that life.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Life
  • American
  • Myself

• My great-grandfather fought with the Colonial Army in New England in the American Revolution.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Great
  • American
  • Revolution

• My skin may have wrinkles but it's because I'm smiling so much. That might sound like some terrible American greetings card, but I feel it's immoral for me to castigate my body for getting older, when it does everything I ask of it.

  

  Olivia Williams
  • May
  • American
  • Body

• The government of Iran has no problem with the American nation.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • American
  • Government
  • Nation

• The American people... want change. They want big ideas, big reform.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • People
  • American
  • Change

• What made 'American Idol' different from 'The Voice' and all these other singing competitions... 'American Idol' just gave regular old normal people like me and like Trent a chance.

  

  La'Porsha Renae
  • People
  • Different
  • American

• The major international appeal for 'House of Cards' was kind of a surprise because it's a very American show. What we learned is that American politics is very American, but greed and corruption and all of that is very global.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • American
  • House
  • Politics

• In the early stages of our involvement in Vietnam, basically I felt that our course was right. My concern grew with the concern of the American people.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • People
  • American
  • Early

• The American War of Independence is the expulsion of the intrusive elements, alien to the American essence. If American reality is the reinvention of itself, whatever is found in any way irreducible or unassimilable is not American.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • American
  • War
  • Reality

• I came to America when I was 9. My mother brought me.

  

  Samantha Power
  • America
  • Mother
  • Me

• We're taking on Social Security as a property rights issue. We figure that every single American has an absolute property right interest in the fruits of his or her own labor. What I work for should be my property.

  

  Malcolm Wallop
  • Work
  • American
  • Single

• Over the last decade, at considerable cost to me in money and effort, confronted with ridicule and intimidation, I have brought more than a dozen lawsuits challenging the corruption in the election process in Tennessee.

  

  John Jay Hooker
  • Money
  • Effort

• The fellow is an absolute outsider, anyone can see that. He’s got a great black beard, and wears patent leather boots in all weathers!

  

  Agatha Christie
  • Great
  • Black

• I've always loved reporting from the field most of all. There's something about doing live TV and being there as it happens that's always appealed to me. I think there's great value to bearing witness to these events as they're actually happening.

  

  Anderson Cooper
  • Great
  • Thinking
  • Live

• I'm sure I passed on some things that will probably be successful.

  

  Matt Cohler

• When I first started dating my husband, I had this weird fascination with the circus and clowns and old carnival things and sideshow freaks and all that. About a month after we started dating, he bought me this amazing black-and-white photo book on the circus in the 1930s, and I started sobbing.

  

  Christina Hendricks
  • Book
  • Black
  • Amazing

• I'm bicultural, and everyone sees me as a Latina, but in my head I see myself as both Latina and American.

  

  Genesis Rodriguez
  • American