Vincent Rodriguez III Quotes
I can play multiple instruments. I love a cappella. I love barbershop. I love magic.
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The British Museum was our first real museum, the property of the public rather than the monarch or the church.
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People have their own opinions but sometimes with the media things get chopped up and cut around to make stories out of it.
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It's not my job to be popular. I'm goal-driven; my job is to get results.
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When you're listening to radio and hear the same 20 songs over and over and over, you want a break from it. Sometimes you don't want to hear something that sounds just like everything else on the radio. Eventually, if you hear the same sounds and the same musicians and the same mixes and all of that, it will start to sound like elevator music.
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Europe can be saved.
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Twenty20 is cricket on speed. In an era of hectic lifestyles and falling attention spans, it gives spectators more drama and intensity in three hours that they would get from a whole-day match. And even though it is a heady cocktail of money, entertainment and media, at its core it is cricket.
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If I would have won that Olympic gold medal, I would have gotten a job somewhere coaching at a university, and I would be totally content with my life.
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At the beginning, I experienced writing as a sort of constraint. Starting so young as a writer is pitiable: it's beyond your powers; you have to lay bare things that are very heavy, and you don't have the means for that.
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Everybody who does anything for the public can be criticized. There's always someone who doesn't like it.
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It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under other circumstances.
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I had always been feeling uncomfortable in my mind about giving advice to others and not acting upon it myself.
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Somebody can become a celebrity for being stupid. That is what it's turned into.
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Daryl Hannah likes to goof around with fashion, but she does have pretty impeccable taste.
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You can't win unless you have good people with great attitude. They are the ones who won the games. I didn't win any games. You never saw a coach make a tackle anywhere. My philosophy was to get the best players and then try to do something new with them.
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For me the purest and truest art in the world is science fiction.
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Just like music, sports elevates us to new levels of achievment.
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I consider myself more a European director who is from Iceland than an Icelandic director.
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On television, it's all just shiny, successful people, and so I feel somebody has to wave a flag for the ordinary people who are not quite sure that they are getting it right.
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Popular as Keynesian fiscal policy may be, many economists are skeptical that it works. They argue that fine-tuning the economy is a virtually impossible task, and that fiscal-stimulus programs are usually too small, and arrive too late, to make a difference.
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Next year: same time, same place. I'll agree to play here every year. This place is just beautiful, and Washington always gives you a good game.
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People are basically the same the world over. Everybody wants the same things - to be happy, to be healthy, to be at least reasonably prosperous, and to be secure. They want friends, peace of mind, good family relationships, and hope that tomorrow is going to be even better than today.
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And now that its ruby eyes are set into the gold, you cannot see their tear-shape, so they seem to be laughing rather than crying. It is a constant reminder to me of the human ability to create something beautiful even when things are at the darkest.
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I can play multiple instruments. I love a cappella. I love barbershop. I love magic.
