Michelle Rodriguez Quotes
I used to go over to my friend's house and we'd watch VCR tapes, three of them a day, and I was like, "I could come up with better stories than this." And I've wanted to write films ever since.
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Kings are more prone to mistrust the good than the bad; and they are always afraid of the virtues of others.
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Most faults are not in our Constitution, but in ourselves.
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All the religions of the world, while they may differ in other respects, unitedly proclaim that nothing lives in this world but Truth.
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'Giving 2.0' was born of my desire to redefine and democratize philanthropy.
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I try to have fun with the fans, try to have fun.
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In a much larger sense, the problem of Sabah is directly influenced by the duplicity of imperial Britain. For whatever devious reason, the dismantling of the British empire created divisions and violence due to ethnic and religious differences.
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I'm fascinated by how much has changed from one generation to another. There are young people growing up now for whom apartheid is just a distant memory and the idea of military service is an abstract notion.
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You're not a bad parent if you don't save for your kid's college because instead you had to choose to feed them and clothe them. Those things come first. They can go to school and do this thing called 'work' while they're in school.
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Insurance companies can no longer refuse to cover Americans with pre-existing conditions. That's what change looks like.
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I can believe in myself, and I feel like I'm such a strong and talented designer.
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I think, in some ways, I like it when people tell me what they're thinking. I would rather have it that way than masquerade as if you're totally unbiased and objective.
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The thing about Pixar, they don't do the 'trend is your friend.' They're really about timeless story telling, and that's pretty great.
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Working on a sitcom and improv improves your comedic chops. If you do it long enough, the one thing you learn to do is listen to the other characters.
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To unambiguously settle the questions of whether there was life on Mars, it will take scientists down on the surface.
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As long as you try your best, that is all that matters. You don't have to be the fastest runner or top of the class.
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I didn't technically grow up in the South, but both my parents were from there.
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A flexible exchange rate is important, and it shouldn't be artificially restrained because of the needs of the economy.
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Music videos were this lucky career opportunity. They were assignments. I was providing a service, and they were meant to be punchy and gimmicky and fun.
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There will always be those people who are just backward and ignorant. There will always be those people. They need somebody to feel superior to.
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I was not cut out to be a rebel.
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I bow down in memory of the victims, and I come to tell my Armenian friends that we will never forget the tragedies that your people has endured.
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I'm just like anybody else: I have stuff to do in the day, whether that's writing a song or recording a song. I try to treat everything I do as just work.
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It's nice to have a little bit of action in your world. Sometimes us actors go a couple months without working, it gets a little crazy. It's good to be busy.
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I used to go over to my friend's house and we'd watch VCR tapes, three of them a day, and I was like, "I could come up with better stories than this." And I've wanted to write films ever since.
