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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The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.
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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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What really matters is your movies and how good a person you are. Otherwise, tabloids and news channels writing about you only builds your curiosity and stardom and propels you to reach wider places.
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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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When I was 26 or 27, I gave up journalism. I came to England after my mom died, to let serendipity take its course. And I just found myself back in journalism again.
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My father didn't think running was sensible. He told me running is just wasting time.
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Use it or lose it.
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I went to college at University of Tennessee.
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When I left college, nobody expected much of me - and nor did I.
