Narciso Rodriguez Quotes

My parents never understood why I didn't want to be a doctor or lawyer. They're Cuban immigrants who wanted to give their children the American dream, and, to them, that was more of what 'the dream' entailed.

Narciso Rodriguez

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• One doesn't have a sense of humor. It has you.

  

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• Instead of building walls, we should be building bridges.

  

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• My mum was a child minder, but now she fosters. My dad was in the police force, and now he's a private detective.

  

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• I've shared the fate of many working mothers; I felt guilty like them.

  

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• I have a condition called Aspergers Syndrome, which is like a mild form of autism It means I don't interact properly in certain social situations.

  

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• To assume that someone's views are invariably influenced or shaped by his or her partner is lazy. It is an intellectual crutch we grope for when we do not have an effective counter to someone's argument.

  

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• Yoghurt cuts sweetness and richness, tempers spice, and makes a dish sing.

  

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• I like Disney Channel a lot, and I also like to watch 'Full House.'

  

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• If you were to ask me to choose between democratic values and wealth, power, prosperity and fame, I will very easily and without any doubt choose democratic values.

  

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• If you think about what folks have been doing for 20 or 30 years, they have been bottling frustration and resentment that the political elites don't understand them, that the political elites don't care about them, that the political elites judge them in various ways. All Donald Trump does is provide the opposite of those things.

  

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• Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate.

  

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• An old building is like a show. You smell the soul of a building. And the building tells you how to redo it.

  

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• My parents are high school sweethearts.

  

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  • School
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• I had never done a roast, but I really wanted to, because it's so different from standup.

  

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• But I'm so slow on it because I find it terribly hard writing blind on computers. The computer speaks to me, but it's just so slow, I'm so terribly slow using it.

  

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• Failing to engage in conflict is a terrible decision, one that puts our temporary comfort and the avoidance of discomfort ahead of the ultimate goal of our organization.

  

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• The rich are like beasts of burden, carrying treasure all day, and at the night of death unladen; they carry to their grave only the bruises and marks of their toil.

  

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• There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills; but whatever is too lofty, a genius as well as a mountain, an assembly as well as a masterpiece, seen too near, is appalling.

  

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• I don't like being lied to, so I only lie about the stupid things. White lies, basically.

  

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• We're trying to tell a very full story of 'Nashville' and these characters in Nashville, and I'm really hopeful that we're going to be able to do something as innovative as 'American Horror Story' and 'Friday Night Lights.' And I think so far, we're on the right path for that.

  

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• My parents never understood why I didn't want to be a doctor or lawyer. They're Cuban immigrants who wanted to give their children the American dream, and, to them, that was more of what 'the dream' entailed.

  

  Narciso Rodriguez
  • Children
  • Why
  • American