John Rocha Quotes
My heritage is a huge part of everything I do; it is, after all, part of what has made me who I am.
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I do love being on television and in peoples' homes. I'm not an actor, so there is a connection that's real.
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I work extremely hard to stay positive and happy. But I get sad and anxious, too, just like everyone.
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Are we like late Rome, infatuated with past glories, ruled by a complacent, greedy elite, and hopelessly powerless to respond to changing conditions?
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I've just finished reading 'The Second Plane,' and I think it's some of the best non-fiction I've ever read.
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When you're competitive, the last thing you want to do is come out of a game, regardless of what kind of injury it is - whether it's an ankle, a knee, a rib, or a head injury.
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A bad system will beat a good person every time.
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Soccer matches should be something special, something people eagerly look forward to, something that brightens life.
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My favourite all-time work of fiction: Lord of the Rings. My favourite all-time nonfiction book: Guns, Germs, and Steel. Ask me again next week, you'll get a different answer.
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I want to be like Bradley Cooper when I grow up.
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In this sport luck and tragedy are only a few hundredths of seconds apart from each other.
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Last year I was diagnosed with osteoporosis. I was over 50, Caucasian, thin, small-framed, and I have it in my genetic history. It was almost a slam-dunk.
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I have carried bills concerning Sudan. I've carried bills concerning Congo. I've carried bills concerning North Korea and Iran and Iraq.
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Every television show is sentenced to death - time and date of execution unknown.
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To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection of our natures, is the very principle and incentive of virtue.
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Always in life bad times will lead to great times.
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I love James Taylor, Jeff Buckley, Elliott Smith and Nine Inch Nails.
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I have to keep testing myself.
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I began to feel lighthearted. Don’t ever do that; it tempts some dark and evil force abroad in the universe.
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I was fascinated by my own prom pictures.
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Friends are flowers in life's garden.
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I would... learn how to drive... have a nice car... and drive it.
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I still feel like I gotta prove something. There are a lot of people hoping I fail. But I like that. I need to be hated.
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If a thousand citizens were not to pay their tax-bills this year, that would not be a violent and bloody measure, as it would be to pay them, and enable the State to commit violence and shed innocent blood. This is, in fact, the definition of a peaceable revolution, if any such is possible.
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My heritage is a huge part of everything I do; it is, after all, part of what has made me who I am.
