John Rocha Quotes
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I was not so interested in night-after-night coverage of Michael Jackson's death or Britney Spears' latest breakdown - topics that were 'breaking news' at the time.
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You can oppose reparations all you want, but you got to know the facts. You really, really do.
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Basically, I get paid to be crazy. I get paid to believe I'm someone else, live in a completely false reality, and believe it's real. And that's a little scary. And I do it to the best of my ability. But it's kind of like swimming out to sea. You have to leave enough energy to swim back, and sometimes you get scared you swam too far.
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I have a ton of videos on MySpace and YouTube.
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The existing U.N. can be found in the writings of early Communist leaders.
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With experience, you improve. I'm a better player now, more complete than I was when I was player of the year.
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It's quite fun to mess with the human voice. It's quite special in the sense that the voice is the #1 instrument that we can connect with; it doesn't sound too alien. I think that's the key is to find the line between sounding human and sounding robotic. That's an area that I like to explore a lot.
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I feel an independent accountability commission should audit all government services.
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The condition of rage is one in which I find myself starting my day - once I see the news headlines.
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We want to let our play be the judges.
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One of my favorite things to make is homemade sushi. I know how to make the rolls and it's really fun to do.
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The crazy thing is a lot of people - a lot of men, if I'm just speaking for myself - don't really start thinking about the effect of hyper-masculinity and false definitions of what it means to be a man until you get married or until you have kids. Because then, all of sudden, you have something to protect.
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Not very long ago some one invented the assertion that there were only 'Four Hundred' people in New York City who were really worth noticing. But a wiser man has arisen - the census taker - and his larger estimate of human interest has been preferred in marking out the field of these little stories of the 'Four Million.'
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Every fool knoweth that hatreds are the cinders of affection.
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Wit seduces by signaling intelligence without nerdiness.
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I should not proceed by land to the East, as is customary, but by a Westerly route, in which direction we have hitherto no certain evidence that any one has gone.
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Progress is possible. I know because I've seen it in the lives of people across America who get knocked down and get right back up. And I know it from my own life.
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When you love something, it never goes away.
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I miss how a record label can help spread the word that you have something out.
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I get quite lazy about cooking because when I come back from work it is the last thing I want to do, really is spend loads of time cooking.
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New York has changed a whole lot. For worse I think because back when I was growing up in New York we were always the trendsetters. I don't care if it was from clothes to hip-hop music, to whatever. Right now New York is a bunch of followers. A lot of them are. It's really not the same.
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I can feel the thunder underneath my feet
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Once you do one bad guy, usually all you get offered is bad guys. But I've been able to do different things.
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I'm interested in beauty more than anything else.
