John Rocha Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.
-
I had to work with a psychiatrist.
-
Most Americans have no memory of the designs Franklin Roosevelt's New Dealers had for postwar-American foreign policy. Human rights, self-determination and an end to European colonization in the developing world, nuclear disarmament, international law, the World Court, the United Nations - these were all ideas of the progressive left.
-
I learned at an early age that I was given something special when I was born, and that was the gift of music.
-
As I grew up in that world and saw how much it affected her world and how much it affected our childhood, it made me very aware of politics. Of course, I have my own private feelings and thoughts, but I don't care to share them.
-
I was hired because I am Zsa Zsa Gabor, but when I go to work, directors try to force their methods on me. John Huston's intense, precise directions tortured me.
-
What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.
-
If I were to work with my mom, I probably would not want her to play my mom. That would get too real.
-
I'm privileged to have had some success, but I've never forgotten what it was like to queue for a half-crown gallery seat for 'Oliver!' which is why I ensure that there are £20 day tickets for 'Miss Saigon' and that the balconies in my theatres are as comfortable as I can possibly make them.
-
Redheads were particularly persecuted during the European witch trials of the fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The colour was associated with the devil, and the pale skin which most redheads have was thought unnatural and deathly.
-
As a child, I loved story books and wanted to be in them so desperately and live the stories.
-
I guess my main influences are Jesus, rock 'n' roll and ex-wives. In that order.
-
Sometimes, America, when something's too bad, we don't want to look at it. We want to turn our head.
-
I spend days with writers' block. It is a problem.
-
The war against terrorism is a war against those who engage in torture.
-
We did a lot of those road trips, all the mandatory stuff that you should when you're a kid, like Mount Rushmore and the Grand Canyon and the Sequoias and the western coast.
-
Sometimes it's more difficult to achieve a 10% cost reduction than it is to tell people they have to achieve 50%. Small incremental steps block your view of doing something fundamentally different.
-
Netflix is something I watch.
-
Insignificant, is the loss of relatives, wealth and fame; The loss of wisdom is the greatest loss. Insignificant, is the increase of relatives, wealth and fame; The increase of wisdom is the highest gain. Therefore, you should train yourselves thus: "We will grow in the increase of wisdom" Thus you should train yourselves.
-
Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.
-
I'm comfortable on the progressive side. But I'm still more pitched at fighting the Right than I am about building a progressive platform for the future. It's fair to say that that conversation doesn't interest me as much.
-
I want to host a religious show. I'm sure nobody will be wanting the 11 o'clock spot on Sunday morning. I think we should really get some of our own preachers and preach that gay is good. And we'd have a great choir.
-
If you have a longing in your heart to hear a deeper truth, there's a mysterious way in which that truth will find you.
-
As I get older and older, people like my work more and more.
