Vincent Rodriguez III Quotes
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They say I am a regulator and I think it is just an effort not to comply with the decree. I do not do anything except what the decree requires me to do.
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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
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There are different reasons to make movies.
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In the face of postwar austerity, hundreds of brides-to-be across the country sent Princess Elizabeth their clothing coupons so that she could have the dress of their dreams.
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I like to give pennies to children, but unfortunately, a man cannot do these things if he lives in a small village or town where his face is known and seen every day. For children take advantage, as I know to my cost, and would gather round him like hens around a farmer when he scatters grain.
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I love to cook a meal for the so-called holidays. You always need the turkey. I like making a good BBQ brisket as well.
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A good catchword can obscure analysis for fifty years.
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Hungary is, in a word, in a state of WAR against the Hapsburg dynasty, a war of legitimate defence, by which alone it can ever regain independence and freedom.
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Indy, I have lots of great memories from there, and probably the part of me that doesn't feel quite as longing for it is that there is still a chance that I could do it again. It's not gone.
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I write the novels that are possible for me to write, not that ones I think will come across in a certain light.
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A lot of times on tour it's about, 'OK, where am I today? Wow, I'm in Costa Rica. What is their famous dish?' And it's about trying the food, and really experiencing it.
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The difficulty for the Government is there's this ideological straitjacket of the market will provide, let the market rip and everything will work out... It's back to trickle-down economics, which, it's plain to see, have not delivered.
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The women I gravitate to are the ones who defy convention and reinvent themselves - hence, they reinvent the world around them.
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I was so self-critical. I still am, but it's not as bad anymore.
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I would love to have been a painter in the tradition of the surrealist painters who I admire so much.
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I had a couple CDs. But I never had that first concert experience, that first record thing.
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We benefit tremendously from the E.U. Britain does very well in getting back E.U. money for the amount it puts in.
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I'm never interested in the painting being a mirror to culture. I think that's really boring. What I'm interested in is painting as an affective space. The place where the hierarchies of the world can be rearranged within the space of a painting. And they can be articulated in different ways.
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Let us make hay while the sun shines.
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I don't think running for office is anything I'm prepared for or could even prepare myself for.
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I believe that transatlantic relations are very important and that President Bush's visit to Brussels, in a few days, will have a major impact on that.
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I think the hardest thing about making music now is being a great dad at the same time. There's an insanity that goes with writing - a mad scientist thing that you have to go through - and sacrificing a kid's upbringing to do that is not an option.
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I have a saying: 'I'm good for three things: making fried bologna sandwiches, making money and picking out good movies.'
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My dad wanted me to be a businessman, but I felt that wasn't for me.
