Jorge M. Perez Quotes
I don't think of investing in Cuba after all the hardships of the people there as a profit-making thing for us. I have thought of it as revitalizing the island.
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We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound.
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The search for knowledge is a long and difficult task.
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In my industry, it's important to have people I look to for different things: guidance, inspiration and motivation.
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Life is too short to blend in.
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My health is fine.
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Hold puppies, kittens, and babies anytime you get the chance.
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The one thing that I've always kind of had, ever since I was a kid, was that I lack a certain degree of self-consciousness, which is alternately good and bad.
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I thought what would be really just choice for a revamp and a reboot is 'The Greatest American Hero.' I think I'd be just that kind of perfect not prepared for this kind of thing, but thrust into circumstances he's not prepared for... that's another niche of mine. Unpreparedness. Not knowing what to do. I'm good at being that guy.
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'Freaky Ali' may look like an easy role to others, but it is not easy.
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It's aggravating that Hollywood has never gotten credit for the role it played in promoting modern design.
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There were a lot of offers before 'Vicky Donor,' but I wanted to wait for the right opportunity.
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My dad used to give me a lot of spankings. Anything I did wrong, he was on me. I was raised by a strict disciplinarian. He kind of laid down the law.
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You have to take control of your own life, your own destiny, and your own careers. You can't leave everything up to someone else, 'cause then you can look at them and blame them.
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Any psychologist will tell you that healing comes from honest confrontation with our injury or with our past. Whatever that thing is that has hurt us or traumatized us, until we face it head on, we will have issues moving forward in a healthy way.
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Refugees are the human dimensions of a failed state.
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Video games and YouTube.com are creatively booming, even though Web design, as demonstrated by the ugly clutter of most major news sites, is in the pits.
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I bought an electric scooter in sixth grade. Bankrupted me.
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Plums are a good substitute for gooseberries.
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The idea of sacrifice is integral to the John Henry myth. Heroic figures have to die in order for us to have our stories; we live and stand on their bones.
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I hibernate. I hibernate until the next project takes shape in my mind.
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Don't be too close-minded, and don't think there's only one way to get to where you want to be. There are a thousand ways to get there, and if one way doesn't work, try the other.
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I think actors always retain one foot in the cradle. We're switched on to our youth, to our childhood. We have to be because we're in the business of transferring emotions to other people.
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I don't think of investing in Cuba after all the hardships of the people there as a profit-making thing for us. I have thought of it as revitalizing the island.
