Jorge M. Perez Quotes

I've really been extremely lucky. Some people work just as hard, are just as intelligent, and they don't get their breaks. I've just gotten the breaks. Maybe it's good karma.

Jorge M. Perez

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• Every time you work, you have to do it all over again, to rid yourself of this dross. I suppose for a person who is not an artist or not attempting art, it is not dross, because it is the common exchange of everyday life.

  

  Carl Andre
  • Life
  • Time
  • Work

• I want to be judged on my own merits.

  

  Park Geun-hye
  • Want
  • Own
  • My Own

• Arab leaders worry more about making money from the profits they get from oil and gas that they turn the other way when Lebanon is being destroyed right next to them. Their neighbours are being murdered, but they only make calculations for their own benefit.

  

  Abu Bakar Bashir
  • Money
  • Worry
  • Making Money

• I am the son of peasants and I know what is happening in the villages. That is why I wanted to take revenge, and I regret nothing.

  

  Gavrilo Princip
  • Why
  • Son
  • Regret

• When I was a child, I was very poor and wanted everything. So when I got money, I began buying things.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Money
  • Child
  • Buying

• If liberalism is to mean anything at all, it is duty bound to support without hesitation the dissenting individual over the group, the heretic over the orthodox, innovation over stagnation, and free speech over offense.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Free
  • Support
  • Innovation

• My theory was that what I had to do was make a study of human behavior.

  

  A. E. van Vogt
  • Study
  • Human
  • Behavior

• I choose parts because I don't want to be embarrassed when the movie comes out. What if my friends were to see the movie? What if my niece or nephew wandered into the theater and saw the movie? I don't want to be too ashamed of it.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • Friends
  • Movie
  • Choose

• I usually speak with all my drummers so that I write my songs with them in mind, and we'll have bass sounds, choir sounds, and then you can multi-task with all these orchestral sounds. Through the magic medium of technology, I can play all kinds of sounds - double bass and stuff.

  

  Bat for Lashes
  • Mind
  • Technology
  • Magic

• I don't want to be someone else.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Want
  • Someone
  • Else

• I'm the girl who - I call it girl-next-door-itis - the hot guy is friends with and gets all his relationship advice from but never considers dating.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Friends
  • Guy
  • Girl

• I could probably name thousands of albums that I want.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Want
  • Name
  • Albums

• The collective judgment of the electorate must be respected.

  

  Indira Gandhi
  • Judgment
  • Collective

• I have been singing randomly, obsessively, obnoxiously for as long as I can remember.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Long
  • Remember
  • Singing

• I don't put people down. I build people up. That's how I always wanna be looked at.

  

  Action Bronson
  • People
  • Up
  • Always

• Now there are certain things you have to prepare - like dialect and special skills. But in the moment, interaction between two characters on the page doesn't need - for me, I don't need to prepare that.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Moment
  • Page
  • Prepare

• Self-exploration is very painful, but unless you do that, you will never know who you are and who you want to be.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Want
  • Know
  • Never

• I could go off into the wilderness and write fantasy novels for the rest of my life and probably be happy; but I always want to challenge myself.

  

  Felicia Day
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Rest

• I used to love Woody Allen but feel he's become a hack as a director. 'Bullets Over Broadway' is the only film of his I've enjoyed in the last 10 years.

  

  Douglas Wood

• I feel different than I did three years ago, in The Cider House Rules.

  

  Kieran Culkin
  • Different
  • House

• I have decided to love. If you are seeking the highest good, I think you can find it through love. And the beautiful thing is that we are moving against wrong when we do it, because John was right, God is love. He who hates does not know God, but he who has love has the key that unlocks the door to the meaning of ultimate reality.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • God
  • Love
  • Beautiful

• For any actor - not just talking about myself - but if you've been fortunate enough to work for a long period of time, there's going to be different choices you're going to make.

  

  Haley Bennett
  • Time
  • Work
  • Different

• I was raised on, 'You go get a nine-to-five job, earn your pay and work your way up.'

  

  Matthew McConaughey
  • Up
  • Work
  • Job

• I've really been extremely lucky. Some people work just as hard, are just as intelligent, and they don't get their breaks. I've just gotten the breaks. Maybe it's good karma.

  

  Jorge M. Perez
  • People
  • Good
  • Work