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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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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Variation does not mean evolution. If an artist varies his mode of expression this only means that he has changed his manner of thinking, and in changing, it might be for the better or it might be for the worse.
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There came from without the hoof-beats of a galloping relative and Aunt Dahlia whizzed in.
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I think you have a pact with an audience in every picture, and I think the pact is to try and be truthful and to be real.
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I thought I was going to be like Kevin Spacey in college.
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Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.
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Art is a guaranty of sanity.
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The world is such a big place, and there's so much that goes on, but a lot of the media really just cover the same thing over and over again.
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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.
