John Rocha Quotes

I don't want to be an elitist designer. It's no fun just catering for a small group of people. It's against my principles.

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• Everyone romanticizes somebody.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Everyone
  • Somebody

• I feel sorry for the man who marries you... because everyone thinks you're sweet and you're not.

  

  Harold Brodkey
  • Man
  • Sweet
  • Sorry

• I'm an actress, not a pinup.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Actress

• Modesty means admitting the possibility of error, subsuming the self for the good of the whole, remaining open to surprise and the gifts that only failure can bring. There are many ways to practice it. Try taking up golf. Or making your own bagels. Or raising a teenager.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Up
  • Good
  • Practice

• If you write genre fiction, you follow the rules, and you have to follow them because readers expect that.

  

  Yann Martel
  • You
  • Rules
  • Fiction

• Celine Dion is my major inspiration.

  

  Jackie Evancho
  • Inspiration
  • Major
  • Celine Dion

• When you lose, you're more motivated. When you win, you fail to see your mistakes and probably no one can tell you anything.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Win
  • Mistakes
  • Lose

• If something pops in my mind and it's easy, I write it.

  

  Wanda Jackson
  • Mind
  • Easy
  • Something

• I know the Russian political elite has got used to the Ukraine suffering from an inferiority complex, but I want this to disappear from our relationship.

  

  Yulia Tymoshenko
  • Political
  • Relationship
  • Suffering

• I think if one wants to be in a continual state of insanity one should stay married to that writing partner.

  

  Barry Mann
  • Writing
  • Think
  • Partner

• I feel like I am doing a lot, but if someone asks me what exactly I have accomplished, I don't know... putting my son to sleep, feeding him, taking care of things in the house amount to a lot of work. But, yes, I haven't arrested 14 criminals in one day or saved the world or anything of that sort!

  

  Kajol
  • World
  • Work
  • House

• I've been writing stories since I was a kid. I love writing stories.

  

  Randa Abdel-Fattah
  • Writing
  • Stories
  • Kid

• With experience, you improve. I'm a better player now, more complete than I was when I was player of the year.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Experience
  • Player
  • Better

• Spiritual practice should not be confused with grim duty. It is the laughter of the Dalai Lama and the wonder born with every child.

  

  Jack Kornfield
  • Wonder
  • Spiritual
  • Practice

• Just because I do a few comedy bits about gay people, that does not mean I'm out there promoting some anti-gay cause.

  

  Sam Kinison
  • People
  • Comedy
  • Gay

• My grandparents used to bring me books every time they saw me.

  

  Gabrielle Zevin
  • Time
  • Me
  • Grandparents

• Essentially what photography is is life lit up.

  

  Sam Abell
  • Life
  • Up
  • Photography

• When women criticized men, I called it 'insight'... When men criticized women, I called it 'sexism' and 'backlash.'

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Women
  • Sexism

• For the Fall of the year is more than three months bounded by an equinox and a solstice. It is a summing up without the finality of year's end.

  

  Hal Borland
  • Up
  • Fall
  • Years

• I have always worked out, and I've gone through different phases of yoga, but the combination of Pilates three days a week with yoga is incredible.

  

  Claudia Schiffer
  • Different
  • Yoga
  • Combination

• The impositions that this government is trying to put on now, it's the typical death by 1,000 cuts. We'll take a little bit here, we'll take a little bit here, we'll take a little bit here. And it doesn't end the conversations for 25, 50 years. It starts the conversation again the next day what they're looking to take back.And really it's about freedoms.

  

  Sean Hannity
  • Trying
  • Government
  • Cutting

• The more we can treat people equally, the more likely they are to treat each other equally.

  

  Martin Dempsey
  • People

• We are all afraid for our confidence, for the future, for the world. That is the nature of the human imagination. Yet every man, every civilization, has gone forward because of its engagement with what it has set itself to do.

  

  Jacob Bronowski
  • World
  • Nature
  • Future

• I don't want to be an elitist designer. It's no fun just catering for a small group of people. It's against my principles.

  

  John Rocha
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