John Rocha Quotes
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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It's so important your customer can rely on you for your classics.
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I continue to aspire to serve Colombia as president.
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True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories.
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In North America, more than half of all children travel to school by bus. We need a similar programme in London.
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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.
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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.
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I'm 5' 11" as I proudly say - just so I don't have to say six feet.
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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.
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I've always played characters that were younger than myself.
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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.
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Human beings will find a balanced situation when they do good things not because God says it, but because they feel like doing them.
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For the first time I understood the haunting beauty of the song. It was the song of a killer who longed to die. It was the song of justice yearned for but not yet done.
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True happiness Consists not in the multitude of friends, But in the worth and choice.
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Life, liberty, and the pursuit of property were just what Aristotle did not talk about. They are the conditions of happiness; but the essence of happiness, according to Aristotle, is virtue. So the moderns decided to deal with the conditions and to let happiness take care of itself.
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Every day I do one or two podcasts that 92 percent of people never will hear. I'm constantly producing, constantly making jokes for Twitter. There's a lot of pressure there. On the flip side, I think having to produce like that makes you a better comedian.
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I like simple makeup, but a bit dirty-looking around the eyes - I love a smoky look.
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Everybody is wrong about everything, just about all the time.
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Cullen is up there killing my children. He's killing everyone.
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Nothing comes easy, but as long as you're breathing, you're always one breath away from making your dreams a reality. Make every breath count.
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I always promised myself that I wouldn't do catwalk shows until the day I died.
