Mel Rodriguez Quotes
I really love 'Bicycle Thief.' That just reminds me of my relationship with my father.
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I think tolerance and acceptance and love is something that feeds every community.
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I wish I'd gone to music school or just started playing in bands sooner.
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I thought if I put my book up on the Internet as a file that you could download, and I told people about it, maybe some people would download it and read it, and maybe I could get some response.
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There's millions of gay people in the world. In 2011, you've got to hide that you're gay? Like, you know what I'm saying? Like, be real.
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To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace.
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In its worse forms, conservatism is a matter of 'I hate strangers and anything that's different.'
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When attempting to make a plea for more peace in the world at a rock concert, we are reflecting the feelings of all those we have come in contact with so we may all have a better understanding of each other.
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In Egypt today most people are concerned with getting bread to eat. Only some of the educated understand how democracy works.
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Singing, for me, means singing as loud as I can.
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The cat is classic whilst the dog is Gothic - nowhere in the animal world can we discover such really Hellenic perfection of form, with anatomy adapted to function, as in the felidae.
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You learn who you really are in a fight - what you're really made of. You have to face yourself and rise above your own fears and failings.
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I don't usually wear a lot of makeup because I tend to like a natural look.
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I never had one beer. If I bought a six-pack of beer, I kept drinking till all six beers were gone. You have to have that kind of understanding about yourself. I haven't had a drink now in 12 years.
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I certainly feel sad about the alienation from my son.
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I am not gay; I don't have a relationship with Ricky Martin.
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I decided it was time to pay tribute to my own songs, to give them the opportunity to mature and be adult.
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I am definitely a person of color.
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We do not yet possess ourselves, and we know at the same time that we are much more.
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I've always been like that; I give 100 percent. I can't do it any other way.
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I love books that rhyme. And I love books that are clever and have little lines in them that are meant to amuse the parents who will no doubt be reading the book over and over and over again.
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My father always said, 'Do your best and piss on the rest.' And I think there's a lot of truth to that, because if you've done your best, there's not a hell of a lot more you can do about something.
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When we accept Christ we enter into three new relationships: (1) We enter into a new relationship with God. The judge becomes the father; the distant becomes the near; strangeness becomes intimacy and fear becomes love. (2) We enter into a new relationship with our fellow men. Hatred becomes love; selfishness becomes service; and bitterness becomes forgiveness. (3) We enter into a new relationship with ourselves. Weakness becomes strength; frustration becomes achievement; and tension becomes peace.
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I really love 'Bicycle Thief.' That just reminds me of my relationship with my father.
