John Rocha Quotes

I always promised myself that I wouldn't do catwalk shows until the day I died.

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• When I was a teenager, I was an umpire for a competitive league for 8- to 9-year-olds. I was really bad at it because I didn't know all the rules, and all these kids were better athletes than me. I made a bad call, and this dad snapped on me. Then he dumped his trash from his cooler, and I had to kick him out of the stands.

  

  Adam DeVine
  • Know
  • Teenager
  • Rules

• We really accomplished what we set out to do with the Recovery Act programs, which was to fill the lending gap created by the crisis.

  

  Karen Mills
  • Act
  • Crisis
  • Recovery

• Amazon's Jeff Bezos, Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, and Steve Jobs did not start out wealthy, and actually added to income inequality, but we all benefit from their creative effort.

  

  Foster Friess
  • Effort
  • Creative
  • Inequality

• I loved theatre and did magic, too, but I was never the best at it - there was never a teacher saying, 'You're great, you have to make this your career!' I was good at science and math. I figured I'd go into science and become a dentist.

  

  Nathan Fielder
  • Good
  • Great
  • Career

• Whenever you get to win, you feel the satisfaction of all of your hard work, all the sacrifices, all the blood, sweat and tears. It feels right and makes you realise that you are really doing the right thing.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • Work
  • Win
  • Tears

• It's so important your customer can rely on you for your classics.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Important
  • You
  • Customer

• I continue to aspire to serve Colombia as president.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • President
  • Continue
  • Aspire

• True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories.

  

  Florence King
  • True
  • Memories
  • Nostalgia

• In North America, more than half of all children travel to school by bus. We need a similar programme in London.

  

  Zac Goldsmith
  • Children
  • School
  • America

• Mark Zuckerberg did his own software for Facebook, and Larry Page and Sergey Brin made their own for Google.

  

  Xavier Niel
  • Software
  • Page
  • Google

• I get less and less sketching done at shows, as more and more people want to come up and talk or get stuff signed. Most requested character? Probably Catwoman.

  

  Adam Hughes
  • People
  • Up
  • Done

• I try to be - well, not holy - but my whole family is very religious, and I want to be like that, too. So I try my hardest to be more in touch with the Lord.

  

  Nathan Gamble
  • Family
  • Want
  • Religious

• I'm 5' 11" as I proudly say - just so I don't have to say six feet.

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Say
  • Feet
  • Six

• A lot of people use a smiley face when they write letters. But it's this huge insane compulsion, like 'I'm happy! I swear!' I'm not buying it.

  

  Nate Lowman
  • People
  • Happy
  • Face

• I've always played characters that were younger than myself.

  

  Carey Mulligan
  • Myself
  • Always
  • Characters

• The Arab Spring showed that people are not going to wait for an American president to make good on his big talk about democracy and human rights; they are going to fight for those rights themselves and overthrow pro-American dictators who stand in their way.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • People
  • Good
  • American

• I'm trying to write books that taste like ice cream but have the nutrition of vegetables.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Trying
  • Ice
  • Ice Cream

• Human beings will find a balanced situation when they do good things not because God says it, but because they feel like doing them.

  

  Olof Palme
  • Good
  • God

• Fifty years ago people believed, accurately, that they were entitled to seek the blue bird, whereas today they believe, mistakenly, that they're entitled to find it and take it home, in a complimentary cage with a month's supply of birdseed....Those who think they've a right to catch whatever they are free to chase, are doomed to disappointment. That's our generation in a nutshell.

  

  George Jonas
  • Generation
  • Disappointment
  • Catch

• I would honestly be elated if I could wave a magic wand and eradicate my back catalog and then have a fresh crack at some of those ideas.

  

  Adrian Tomine
  • Magic

• When I watch movies or TV, I am like, 'Wow that guy is really cute, I really like him,' but I don't really have one person that I would die to go to something with. There are so many hot guys.

  

  Sasha Pieterse
  • Guy
  • Cute
  • Hot

• I'm so sick of hearing that U.K. hip hop doesn't get credit and success when I'm working to get it - for me and for others, too.

  

  Estelle
  • Success
  • Sick
  • Credit

• Looking back, I do think one of the reasons 'Thirteen Reasons Why' has been so successful is not because it deals with serious issues but because I had a unique and interesting way to tell that story. I knew the issues were going to be dealt with in the book, but I felt my job was to write the story as entertainingly as possible.

  

  Jay Asher
  • Why
  • Job
  • Book

• I always promised myself that I wouldn't do catwalk shows until the day I died.

  

  John Rocha