Jorge M. Perez Quotes
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I went through a phase when I was 13 where I would only fall in love with people over the age of 19 or 20. I never had a real relationship with any of these people, but it was definitely the guy I wanted to hang out with and wanted to go on trips with. I would be like, 'But, Daddy, he's a musician!'.
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During the late '20s my father left us. My mother was in a complete hole with no money, and we were evicted.
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In the future, I'd like to see paleontology as a whole get a lot more quantitative.
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I tramped. When I was on the freight trains, I wasn't looking for work. I was looking to go from place to place without paying any money.
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It'd be crazy to say just because an artist is not successful that means he's not talented. I don't think anybody really believes that, but sometimes it feels that way.
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Democracy is fatal for the arts; it leads only to chaos or the achievement of new and lower common denominators of quality.
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The most disturbing thing, I think, with people that do very morally devious things more and more often is to see that they completely feel that they had no choice in the matter.
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Architecture is unnecessarily difficult. It's very tough.
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For me, the source material can come from anywhere. It can be a poem, it can be a dream, it can be a movie, as long as the end part of it is interesting - that's what it's about for me.
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Shelter dogs are the most loving, wonderful, sweet pets in the world. They understand being rescued, loved, and protected. The hubs and I have 2 rescued 11-yr-old Pomeranians, who adore us.
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Jesus is still up in Heaven, thumbing through his Bible, going 'Where did I say build a water slide?'
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Women seem not to understand, or underestimate, the profound power they have over their husbands.
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My childhood did not prepare me for the fact that the world is full of cruel and bitter things.
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I could probably recite just about every song that was on country radio between 1990 and 2000.
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I wish I could describe anything I do as conscious or strategized. To be honest, in acting, you have so little control. The only control you have is if you're lucky enough to be in a position, which is not very often, in which you have choice. It's about what choices you make, and for me, it's entirely instinctive.
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We have rules that no longer are relevant to the world we're living in. Our regulatory system can't keep up.
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I had discovered journalism to be my life's ambition.
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I recognize that I have a unique position to be a role model to young girls because I am doing something that they consider glamorous, which is acting, and yet I took a time to really get my education and study mathematics, and I think math is the cat's meow.
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Follow your passion. Do what you love, and the money will follow. Most people don't believe it, but it's true.
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Authority poisons everybody who takes authority on himself.
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Rhythm and melody enter into the soul of the well-instructed youth and produce there a certain mental harmony hardly obtainable in any other way. . . . thus music, too, is concerned with the principles of love in their application to harmony and rhythm.
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Mysticism is, in essence, little more than a certain intensity and depth of feeling in regard to what is believed about the universe.
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Faith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other.
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I really wanted to be Ambassador to Argentina.
