John Rocha Quotes
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Relinquishing apparent national sovereignty does not have to entail a loss of national sovereignty, but can actually be a benefit.
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I'm not a control freak.
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Insight enables you make sure you don't allow negative beliefs to get permanently set in your thinking - just the same way you wouldn't want fractured bones to be permanently set into place.
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The West was involved in toppling the Mossadegh government. That ultimately led to the Iranian revolution.
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'Die Antwoord' just has a nice ring to it.
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I don't feel American. I do feel like a New Yorker. I think there's a real distinction there. A city allows you to become a citizen even when you're not a national.
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The last few years of my life have been a little like a long ride in a Poop de Ville with the bottom down.
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A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.
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I've always been more of a camera hog than anything, and it's just another way to get it all out!
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The crack of the bat, the sound of baseballs thumping into gloves, the infield chatter are like birdsong to the baseball starved.
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The idea that motherhood is inherently somehow a threat to creativity is just absurd.
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Be as polite to the custodian as you are to the chairman of the board.
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Now there are certain things you have to prepare - like dialect and special skills. But in the moment, interaction between two characters on the page doesn't need - for me, I don't need to prepare that.
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I realised a little bit to my astonishment that I can give a lecture for a thousand people, and there will be this tumultuous applause, so, you know, I have the feeling well, it can't be all that bad.
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The first thing to improve society is not banning abortion, but making sure that everyone who had a child is in the best position to be able to rear it.
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I do not want to be bored listening to music that is muffled and known only to the poet himself.
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Basically we just created our own label, but again we just did it to document our own music and create our own thing, so the major labels were just always out of our picture, we're not interested.
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I have many weaknesses, but I have one strength. When I do something, I do it 300 percent. I'm not a middle man.
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When I saw 'The Player', I came out with knots in my stomach because it was so true to my experience.
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I don't believe any person looking for work is fearful of political judgment. Government is a large institution, and if they believe that people are going to get rid of good employees for political reasons, that's absurd.
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Arnold Palmer has what I call an 'Eisenhower smile'. Those two men, they'd smile and their whole faces would look so pleasant; it was like they were smiling all over.
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I want people to... not be afraid of their truth.
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I grew up wanting only to be an illustrator. I studied art at Laurel School in Cleveland and at Smith College.
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When I left college, nobody expected much of me - and nor did I.
