John Rocha Quotes

I never set out to do interior design; I just do what I do, and some people come along and want me to work with them.

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• Trump doesn't force the networks to show his rallies live rather than do real reporting. Nor does he force anyone to accept his phone calls rather than demand that he do a face-to-face interview that would be a greater risk for him.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Live
  • Real
  • Risk

• It is no exaggeration to say that the English Bible is, next to Shakespeare, the greatest work in English literature, and that it will have much more influence than even Shakespeare upon the written and spoken language of the English race.

  

  Lafcadio Hearn
  • Work
  • English
  • Language

• What people love about Santorum is he is who is he. He speaks his words. He loves God. He loves his country, and he loves gays.

  

  Foster Friess
  • People
  • God
  • Country

• Americans are people who prefer the Continent to their own country, but refuse to learn its languages.

  

  E. V. Lucas
  • People
  • Country
  • Learn

• I'm being mocked because I don't live up to a socially determined view of what other people think a person should look like.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • People
  • Up
  • Live

• You have to understand that while I pre-plot the meta story of a given book, I often have no idea of what will happen on the next page, let alone the next chapter. That's what makes it fun for me; I write the books the same way many people read them.

  

  R. A. Salvatore
  • People
  • Book
  • Fun

• It seems every year, people make the resolution to exercise and lose weight and get in shape.

  

  Ed Smith
  • People
  • Exercise
  • Year

• You don't have to be scared of me, because I am loyal. Why are people so scared of creative ideas and so scared of truth? All I want to do is do good.

  

  Kanye West
  • People
  • Good
  • Why

• I like fearless characters, people just not afraid to do anything it takes to make people laugh.

  

  Dane Cook
  • People
  • Laugh
  • Fearless

• An ideal day for me is a combination of a fun-exciting creative moment with work partners, some laughs and games with my kids, a good surf session, and great conversation with friends around a meal.

  

  Yves Behar
  • Good
  • Work
  • Great

• God save us from people who do the morally right thing. It's always the rest of us who get broken in half.

  

  Paddy Chayefsky
  • People
  • God
  • Rest

• Rent-control laws disproportionately benefit the non-poor because the elite pull strings, work the system and are better connected than the non-poor.

  

  Larry Elder
  • Work
  • Control
  • Better

• I enjoy listening to contemporary rock on the college stations while I'm taking long walks, love gospel and soul music, am fascinated by hip-hop and rap as the new kind of urban 'beat' poetry and, come to think of it, find something interesting about just any kind of music.

  

  Oscar Hijuelos
  • Music
  • Long
  • Love

• I think the problem I have with films is that, because there's so much hype around them, they become bigger than they should be, really. There are things that people do every day in their little workshops that they'll take to heaven with them. You've got to realise that it's not everything, making films.

  

  Hans Matheson
  • People
  • Day
  • Problem

• You don't always necessarily see eye to eye with the people that you are getting married into you, so you really have to learn to open your mind, open your heart and be super compassionate about other people's points of view, faith and opinions.

  

  Patricia Rae
  • People
  • Mind
  • Heart

• We must improvise, and we must experiment, and we must do things that might go wrong, and everything we bring - the people and the equipment - must serve us in that goal.

  

  Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • People
  • Goal
  • Everything

• You go overseas and people are oppressed and scared and worried but we're not like that... we're more like my films and how people come out at the end of seeing them - they feel good.

  

  Yahoo Serious
  • People
  • Good
  • End

• Most of the film directors expect their actors to want to work fast.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Work
  • Want
  • Fast

• When you model, there's no way you can't notice yourself. Do you know what I mean? Because you're constantly surrounded by people saying, 'Oh, she's too short, she's too skinny, she's this, she's whatever.' And you're right there. They're talking about you, and you're right there.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • People
  • She
  • Model

• The credit quality of junk bonds varies widely.

  

  Alex Berenson
  • Quality

• The best thing I probably do is - I'll say I'm a pretty darn good parent. I got good kids.

  

  Kate Hudson
  • Good
  • Kids
  • Pretty

• It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture. That which I have insisted upon as the life of the whole, that spirit which is given only by the hand and eye of the workman, can never be recalled.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Life
  • Great
  • Beautiful

• In 'Twice Born' I play my character in her 20s, 30s and 50s. For the fifty year old scenes, I had some prosthetics; it was interesting to see how I'm going to look when I'm fifty-five or so. I actually saw similarities between my grandmothers and my mother.

  

  Penelope Cruz
  • Character
  • Mother
  • Interesting

• I never set out to do interior design; I just do what I do, and some people come along and want me to work with them.

  

  John Rocha
  • People
  • Work
  • Design