John Rocha Quotes
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I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.
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I had to work with a psychiatrist.
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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.
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I learned at an early age that I was given something special when I was born, and that was the gift of music.
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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.
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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.
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What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.
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If I were to work with my mom, I probably would not want her to play my mom. That would get too real.
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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.
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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.
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As a child, I loved story books and wanted to be in them so desperately and live the stories.
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I guess my main influences are Jesus, rock 'n' roll and ex-wives. In that order.
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Sometimes, America, when something's too bad, we don't want to look at it. We want to turn our head.
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I spend days with writers' block. It is a problem.
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The war against terrorism is a war against those who engage in torture.
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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.
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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.
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Netflix is something I watch.
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Give me liberty or give me a bran muffin!
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The second purchase was my ranch, Mockingbird Hill. The third purchase was Longhorn cattle.
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In my household, a Trapper-Keeper was too expensive - we had plain old three-ring notebooks - and I always wanted a Trapper-Keeper.
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In my opinion, if you only show quality but no fighting spirit, you are half a player.
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In Liberia, our main obstacle is infrastructure: the lights, the water, the roads. Companies can't operate without those things. And even though we have commitments from our partners, it takes time to turn commitments into cash.
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As I get older and older, people like my work more and more.