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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Whatever our creed, we stand with admiration before the sublime character of Jesus.
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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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It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles.
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It is the idea of 'People' to treat its material as if it were history and, what is more, as if it were the history of a happy period.
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If we could do high-speed rail in California just half a notch above what they've done on the Shanghai line in China, and if we had a straight path from L.A. to San Francisco, as well as the milk run, at least that would be progress.
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The minute I stop singing, I'm back to being shy. I'm soft-spoken because I never really talked to people. I didn't learn to do it.
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I really wanted to be Ambassador to Argentina.
