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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'It's easier for our software to compete with Linux when there's piracy than when there's not.' -Bill Gates, Fortune Magazine, July 17 2007
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It is quite impossible these days to assume anything about people's educational level from the way they talk or dress or from their taste in music. Safest to treat everyone you meet as a distinguished intellectual.
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I'll come and make love to you at five o'clock. If I'm late start without me.
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When we protect the places where the processes of life can flourish, we strengthen not only the future of medicine, agriculture and industry, but also the essential conditions for peace and prosperity.
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I do not oppose form, but only form as a goal.
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I really wanted to be Ambassador to Argentina.
