John Ortiz Quotes
If I had to pick a favorite album, 'El Malo' would be one of them. That music is good old-fashioned medicine.
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I worked with the Neville Brothers for 40-some years on the highway, and up and down since I can remember - funk from New Orleans.
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I have favorite authors from a lifetime of reading, so there are some I'll automatically read every time they have a new novel. Included in them: Robert Goddard, Jeffery Deaver, Sophie Kinsella, Katherine Neville, Greg Isle, Laurie King, Lee Child, Lisa Tucker, Susan Howatch, Paul Auster. Barry Eisler, David Hewson, Tracy Chevalier.
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I enjoy getting gussied up for an event or date night.
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Although some secrecy is odious, some is essential just to preserve our sense of self.
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We don't expect every operator to be Christian, but we tell them we do expect them to operate on Christian principles.
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Certainly our gay and lesbian brothers and sisters need to be supported in living out their call to holiness.
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The apartheid system renounces no violence.
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Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.
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We can see cities during the day and at night, and we can watch rivers dump sediment into the ocean, and see hurricanes form.
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I write my own songs. I made my own videos. I pick my producers. Nothing goes out without my permission. It's all authentic.
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Once your IQ is 150 or over, it stops beings ability and becomes a disability.
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It would be a foolish high representative who worked that way.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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I love fire. As a child I loved setting light to things. I'd always be in the forest putting matches to pieces of wood. I've always regarded fire as my friend.
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I'm fortunate to be famous for two rather imposing characters like Magneto and Gandalf.
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A jackass can kick a barn down, but it takes a carpenter to build one.
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My identity comprises of more than just my faith. I am a proud Muslim, but I am also a liberal, a Briton, a Pakistani, a Londoner, a father, a product of the globalised world who speaks English, Arabic and Urdu.
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A lot of people love the idea of improvising but are terrified of it, so I tried to make a book that was not a chef's book about improvising but a real home cook's book with a real home cook's pantry, supermarket ingredients, that sort of thing.
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A gas tax could be one important element of an integrated energy policy.
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Humility is a good estate; founded thereon, the whole spiritual edifice grows into a holy temple in the Lord. Through humility, some have even possessed the gates of their enemies. For which of the virtues is so mighty to subdue the pride of demons and the tyranny of men?
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Often faith isn't hoping that good times are coming; it's trying to see that the good times are here.
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World fertility surveys indicate that anywhere from one third to one half of the babies born in the Third World would not be if their mothers had access to cheap, reliable family planning, had enough personal empowerment to stand up to their husbands and relatives, and could choose their own family size.
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I take it that he is more than just a woodcutter. "No one is just a woodcutter, " replied Terence. "A person's always more than his present occupation.
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If I had to pick a favorite album, 'El Malo' would be one of them. That music is good old-fashioned medicine.
