John Rocha Quotes
The most important part of my work on The Orion Building was the creation within the apartments of living space which inspires people and the way they live their lives, whether they have bought a one-bedroom apartment or the penthouse. This building is beautiful to see, sense, and experience.
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When you run the marathon, you run against the distance, not against the other runners and not against the time.
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People that are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.
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Though many corporations honor commitments to reduce dangerous pollution, some cut corners and cheat. The marketplace doesn't always have mechanisms to correct bad actors.
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For me, great music doesn't just have to fall into one category or one genre and I love appreciating all kinds of music.
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The purpose of armed struggle is not simply to kill... its purpose is to reach a political goal.
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I have a theory that there are still parts of our mental worlds that are still based around the age of between five and eight, and we just kind of pretend to be grown-up.
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It is my hope that I will be able to work with legislative leaders on both sides of the aisle and Gov. Hickenlooper to find a solution to fix our ailing pension system.
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Speaking is physically difficult for me.
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What's the most important thing in the world? It's love, and I look at that as an energy, not a sentiment.
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I know: I am a freakish geek. Or is that a geekish freak?
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Whenever I see the Hong Kong flag is flying in the sky, not because of anybody else, because of my efforts, I think it's the most proud time of my life.
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Only free people have an incentive to be virtuous. Only people who bear the consequences of their own acts will care about those consequences and try to learn from their mistakes.
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You know rule one for the vice president is make sure you never upstage the president, right? It's rule one.
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History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
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The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.
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Conservatives need to know how important it is to fill out the census. It is one of the only things our Constitution specifically asks of U.S. citizens and boycotting will just help liberals expand government even further.
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Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time.
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I'm a working actor. I don't make my own work, so it's the opportunities that are presented to me.
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When I'm with my wife, I know she's a beautiful woman. I know that, and more than that, it's what she is inside. She's beautiful inside; she loves music like I do. That's the thing that brought us together and probably keeps us together.
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Hip hop is usually a bunch of guys talking to a bunch of guys, in my experience. It's homosocial, not homosexual, in that it's almost always all one gender in a room where it's being created. That locker-room environment has an impact on the language. I think the music suffers 'cause it allows an almost cartoonish level of misogyny.
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Education is a private matter between the person and the world of knowledge and experience, and has little to do with school or college.
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I hope you have lost your good looks, for while they last any fool can adore you, and the adoration of fools is bad for the soul. No, give me a ruined complexion and a lost figure and sixteen chins on a farmyard of Crow's feet and an obvious wig. Then you shall see me coming out strong.
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Much of the magical effect that poetry gives of rendering everything it touches pellucid comes from the necessity of compression that it imposes. The impossibility of pausing in poetry as long as may be needed to make sense clear causes many a set of words actually deficient in linguistic workmanship to pass for an eloquent brevity.
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The most important part of my work on The Orion Building was the creation within the apartments of living space which inspires people and the way they live their lives, whether they have bought a one-bedroom apartment or the penthouse. This building is beautiful to see, sense, and experience.
