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 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 always say I write my own novels and the characters don't take control of me, but in fact, I look at the characters in the early stages and I think, 'What is he or she like,' and they slowly come together and they become the person they are.
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When asked to make the formal declaration that I did not intend to overthrow the Constitution of the United States, I was fool enough to reply that I had no such purpose, but that were I to do it by mistake I should be inexpressibly contrite.
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I've already made several friends-for-life from the latest movies I've worked on, and I know I'll make several more in the years to come.
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For working with non-professional actors, you have to have this particular desire to work with people who are reluctant to play in a movie. I like this relationship. I'm like a recruiter, an employment agency giving someone employment.
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'Heartbreak Heard Around the World' is about me and my girl, and I'm just going through a broken-heart stage in a relationship, and I'm just kind of expressing my love for her.
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I think it's important to have closure in any relationship that ends - from a romantic relationship to a friendship. You should always have a sense of clarity at the end and know why it began and why it ended. You need that in your life to move cleanly into your next phase.
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I really love 'Bicycle Thief.' That just reminds me of my relationship with my father.
