Nicholas Gonzalez (Nicholas Edward Gonzalez) Quotes

You can ask any Latin actor: inevitably, if they get a part meant for a white guy, producers will change the character's name to sound more Latin.

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• I admire people like Kristen Wiig, who is hilarious but also does a lot of really cool films. I would love to have a career like hers.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • People
  • Career
  • Cool

• I believe the answers to most problems that confront us around the world can and should be approached by engaging both friend and foe in dialogue. No, I don't naively think that dialogue always works, but I believe we should avoid the rigidity of saying that dialogue never works.

  

  Rand Paul
  • World
  • Believe
  • Friend

• Beauty pageants work as a platform from where you can reach out to many.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Work
  • Beauty
  • Platform

• Despite the disreputable company it keeps, bismuth is harmless. In fact, it's medicinal: Doctors prescribe it to soothe ulcers, and it's the 'bis' in hot-pink Pepto-Bismol. Overall, it seems like the most out-of-place element on the periodic table, a gentleman among scoundrels.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Company
  • Gentleman
  • Pink

• Choreography and creativity - it's my matrix; let's see where we can move.

  

  Wayne McGregor
  • Creativity
  • See
  • Move

• The pace of innovation may slow down or speed up depending on the appetite in the public markets, but the constant progress of technology doesn't really ever stop. There's always opportunities for new ideas and creative people to go build great things. I'm always interested in learning about those kinds of opportunities.

  

  Adam Dell
  • People
  • Up
  • Great

• When the whole world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • World
  • Power
  • Powerful

• The same way you can see me sit at a table in a movie and be six different people, the mother and the uncle and all these different things, when I'm in the studio, I can do that, too. I'm not trying to be a recording artist and have a certain type of music for the radio.

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • People
  • Music
  • Different

• If you're driving, and a cop is behind you, you automatically think they're going to pull you over, but cops have so much more going on than to think about pulling you over. The last thing a real cop wants to do is write a ticket. That's the truth.

  

  Manny Montana
  • Real
  • Truth
  • Think

• Everybody's idea of a great book is different, of course. For me it's one that makes my jaw drop on every page, the writing is so original.

  

  Carl Hiaasen
  • Great
  • Different
  • Writing

• My kind of, like, life goal is to help train students to be good people as well as good scientists. That would be my dream.

  

  Pardis Sabeti
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• Everything in life has a price on it - there ain't a damn thing free in America, and football has got a price on it.

  

  Earl Campbell
  • Life
  • America
  • Free

• There is a large body of abolitionists in Clinton and Clark Counties in this state, and in Wayne County Indiana, that would undoubtedly support such a store, but whether their support would be sufficient, I am unable to say.

  

  Gamaliel Bailey
  • Support
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  • Store

• The hajj is one of the five essential practices of Islam; when they make the pilgrimage to Mecca, Muslims ritually act out the central principles of their faith.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • Faith
  • Principles
  • Islam

• Nearly every coach I've talked with tells me that the attention you get from media and other people is the thing you miss most. I don't know if that's right.

  

  Bear Bryant
  • People
  • Me
  • Attention

• I will only speak off the record about Debra Winger.

  

  Karel Reisz
  • Speak
  • Will
  • Only

• Even if we never cure a single disease, the Human Genome Project and other ventures will have been worth it.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Single
  • Never
  • Human

• Let us not let the world be defined by the destruction wrought by one virus, but illuminated by billions of hearts and minds working in unity.

  

  Pardis Sabeti
  • World
  • Working
  • Unity

• I've had the struggles; I've had emotional times, boring times, fun times, passionate times.

  

  Bill Macy
  • Fun
  • Emotional

• Thematically, in a lot of what I write, there's a sense of displacement, of being rooted in multiple places, and how that can tug at your identities and your wants and your goals.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Goals
  • Sense
  • Places

• Whatever position I occupied, it was the result of colleagues - of my comrades in the movement - who had decided in their wisdom to use me for the purpose of focusing the attention of the country and the international community on me.

  

  Nelson Mandela
  • Country
  • Community
  • Attention

• One of the joys of this show [Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency] is that each of those characters could be starring in their own show. It's only as the show goes on that you realize how they interconnect. They're all moving towards one another inexorably, to meet at a certain point.

  

  Samuel Barnett
  • Character
  • Joy
  • Moving

• Doing jobs that are completely different to the last thing I did pushes me as an actor to change as much as I can. It would be easy for me to stay in a similar vein of characters or jobs, but I'm drawn to challenging myself.

  

  Richard Madden
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  • Character
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• You can ask any Latin actor: inevitably, if they get a part meant for a white guy, producers will change the character's name to sound more Latin.

  

  Nicholas Gonzalez
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  • Actor
  • Producer