John Rocha Quotes
My Chinese grandmother was a dressmaker, so I always enjoyed dressing up and looking cool.

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My father was a very gregarious, very open guy. So every weekend, the house was full of people.
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You have got to pay attention, you have got to study and you have to do your homework. You have to score higher than everybody else. Otherwise, there is always somebody there waiting to take your place.
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Life does not owe me a shred.
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I try to do two moot courts for every Supreme Court case (and one to two for courts of appeals), and to ensure I am being mooted by people who know the Supreme Court well and are coming to the case fresh.
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The advice I would give to someone is to not take anyone's advice.
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As an actor, you're always worried about getting stuck on a show that's not good because working actors need the paycheck. So being cast on a regular procedural, where everything gets wrapped up by the end of the episode, was always a fear of mine because that doesn't really test you as an actor.
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We need to move past blame and make sure we are delivering care to our veterans.
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'The Voice' was the first real job I've ever had that wasn't just messing around with music.
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I love figure skating and what I am able to express creatively. I want to leave a legacy in the sport.
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It's hard to think of any tool, any instrument, any object in history with which so many developed so close a relationship so quickly as we have with our phones.
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So I was in America and I thought I'll stick around while I'm here and just see what happens. The next film I did was High Art, so I guess it started with a sort of vague idea but really just a fantasy.
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My childhood was appalling.
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When I was on a major label I felt obliged to say yes to every interview, tour and whatever else. The label is always telling you, 'This ain't going to last,' so I worked myself half to death. I learnt from that and I like to pace myself now.
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The idea of a stag hunt evokes chivalry - knights in jerkins and hose, ladies on sidesaddles with wimples and billowing dresses, a white stag symbolizing something-or-other, and Robin Hood getting in the way. An actual stag hunt is more like a horseback meeting of a county planning commission.
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Smell is a very animal thing, almost reptilian, where the more cerebral things like reading less so.
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How many times do I have to repeat this: my childhood was fantastic.
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Christians take Scriptures out of context to try to justify or to vindicate retreat and cowardice.
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As a result of the asthma I was sent to school in the country, and only visited Sydney for brief, violently asthmatic sojourns on my way to a house we owned in the Blue Mountains.
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When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions.
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I work mostly during the week, and on the weekend I get to hang out with friends, so it balances out pretty well.
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I ain't got no beef with east coast, I think it's just being hyped up.
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I just feel so upset when I think of all the lost years when I could have been doing stand-up gigs.
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We must become acquainted with our emotional household: we must see our feelings as they actually are, not as we assume they are. This breaks their hypnotic and damaging hold on us.
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My Chinese grandmother was a dressmaker, so I always enjoyed dressing up and looking cool.