Eugenio Derbez Quotes
I've learned that when I'm directing, I hate when people are always questioning everything and trying to give me directions.
Quotes to Explore
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I always say: 'Share your happiness with the world, give other people that happiness and let it come back,' but some things make me question it. I don't know if I want some people to know that I am happy. I think a lot of people want to take it away from you, and that's really scary.
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The most important role of a leader is to set a clear direction, be transparent about how to get there and to stay the course.
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Politics is the art of the possible.
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We can no longer apply the classic criteria to clearly determine whether and when we should use military force. We are waging war in Afghanistan, for example, but it's an asymmetrical war where the enemies are criminals instead of soldiers.
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Don't dress to kill, dress to survive.
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I really like just super dry comedy.
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Exposure to a diversity of disciplines has been exceptionally helpful to me.
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Feminism was about making women's lives less constrained and giving them more choices.
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We have to be aware of our fragilities as human beings - when we see cruelty, to understand that in certain conditions, we could be cruel, too.
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If I had a gun to my head and I had to choose between theater and film I'd choose theater.
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There are times when I'm driving home after a day's shooting, thinking to myself, That scene would've been so much better if I had written it out.
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Stand-up comedy is an art form and it dies unless you expand it.
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War is not an exercise of the will directed at an inanimate matter.
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I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.
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We had a segment called Tampon Tuesdays that I was very proud of; that was hilarious because there are a lot of women's issues out there that a lot of people don't know about because they're not women, and they don't have to go through them.
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The first book that they gave me was Jeannie, a young teenager. I went on with her maybe ten books.
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I'd rather see you drink a glass of wine than a glass of milk. So many people drink Coca-Cola and all these soft drinks with sugar. Some of these drinks have 8 or 9 teaspoons of sugar in them What's the good of living if you can't have the things that give a little enjoyment?
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By the end of high school, I had this fork-in-the-road moment where part of me considered going to vocational music school to really pursue it.
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My take is, privacy is precious. I think privacy is the last true luxury. To be able to live your life as you choose without having everyone comment on it or know about.
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You see, I don't draw from life at all, but I do look out of my window a lot.
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Any writer will be happy and good only if they know what they're doing and why they're doing it.
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I always, always got to be the last man standing.
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America isn't Congress. America isn't Washington. America is the striving immigrant who starts a business, or the mom who works two low-wage jobs to give her kid a better life. America is the union leader and the CEO who put aside their differences to make the economy stronger.
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I've learned that when I'm directing, I hate when people are always questioning everything and trying to give me directions.
