Mojo Nixon Quotes

I love blacks and gays and latinos, as long as they don't live next door.

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• I wanted to get away from the Mexican vernacular and do more 'nuevo Latino.' Americans are starting to understand regionality in Mexican food. It is very regional in terms of ingredients.

  

  Aaron Sanchez
  • Food
  • Understand
  • Mexican

• Thought makes reality.

  

  Vanna Bonta
  • Reality
  • Thought
  • Makes

• Fear warps our understanding of reality and even our ability to see reality clearly.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • Reality
  • Fear
  • Understanding

• I'm trained in the theater, and acting, for me, is about the imaginative life I create for myself, not about basing it on something real. I think that whatever I create becomes the reality for the audience.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Life
  • Real
  • Reality

• Any real virtual reality enthusiast can look back at VR science fiction. It's not about playing games... 'The Matrix,' 'Snow Crash,' all this fiction was not about sitting in a room playing video games. It's about being in a parallel digital world that exists alongside our own, communicating with other people, playing with other people.

  

  Palmer Luckey
  • People
  • World
  • Real

• The biggest challenge or biggest crisis knocking on the doors of humankind is fear and intolerance.

  

  Kailash Satyarthi
  • Fear
  • Challenge
  • Doors

• Quite often, little germs of ideas have come from something that I've observed or someone's told me. The process of it becoming fiction is expanding and extending it: stretching the rubber band of reality.

  

  Laura Wade
  • Reality
  • Band
  • Ideas

• My primary passion is film-making. That's the aspect of my life that defines me, completes me, and completely grounds me. Everything else - from judging a reality TV show to hosting a talk show - is just a result of me being a film-maker. I am the happiest, satisfied and at peace when I am behind the camera.

  

  Karan Johar
  • Life
  • Reality
  • Peace

• It has made me realise how many doors open for you when you're up for an Oscar. It seems once you are nominated, it validates you as a serious director, and you become someone that people want to work with.

  

  Daniel Barber
  • People
  • Up
  • Work

• The 'good' mother, with her fixed smile, her rigidity, her goody-goody outlook, her obsession with unnecessary hygiene, is in fact a fool. It is the 'bad' mother, unafraid of a joke and a glass of wine, richly self-expressive, scornful of suburban values, who is, in reality, good.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Mother

• The trouble with fiction… is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense.

  

  Aldous Huxley
  • Reality

• I've never seen the Osbournes, I've never seen Paris Hilton. I'd rather read than watch reality TV. I'd rather live life than watch somebody else living it.

  

  Al Jourgensen 1000 Homo DJs
  • Life
  • Live
  • Reality

• I can't speak for all Hawaiians, but the reality is that we depend on tourism. Locals might not want to go to the spots like Waikiki, but we do want tourists to experience more of the islands.

  

  Kaui Hart Hemmings
  • Experience
  • Reality

• The majority of my background is multi-camera format, which is very broad and a very arch perception of reality. Whereas single camera tends to be more truthful and a little more intimate of a medium.

  

  Matt LeBlanc
  • Reality
  • Single
  • Perception

• Television studios bet the farm on reality shows, where they didn't need any actors and movie studios had no plans for any quality movies that required the presence of me.

  

  Alfre Woodard
  • Movie
  • Reality
  • Quality

• So, we, as human beings, live in a very imprecise world. A world where our perceptions of reality are far more important than actual reality.

  

  Daniel Keys Moran
  • World
  • Important
  • Live

• To become mindfully aware of our surroundings is to bring our thinking back to our present moment reality and to the possibility of some semblance of serenity in the face of circumstances outside our ability to control.

  

  Jeff Kober
  • Thinking
  • Reality
  • Control

• Technologists and futurists call the mashup of digital info and physical space 'blended reality.'

  

  Jamais Cascio
  • Reality
  • Space

• Picking apart a story for its scientific underpinnings doesn't diminish it, it enhances it, makes us dream of the possibilities it proposes. I think appreciating the magic of reality, going from 'can't happen' to 'could happen,' is the fundamental appeal of science fiction.

  

  Kyle Hill
  • Dream
  • Science
  • Reality

• By translating their inner turmoil or understanding into art, artists challenge the accepted notions of reality and create new ones.

  

  Wes Nisker
  • Reality
  • Understanding
  • Challenges

• I like a scarf with a shirt; it throws it off a bit.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Like
  • Shirt
  • Scarf

• I always assume I look better than I actually do. I'll feel pretty good about myself when I leave the house, then I'll see a picture and think, 'Crap, I had no idea that's what I was looking like.'

  

  Katherine Heigl
  • Good
  • Pretty
  • House

• I play baseball - 'The Show' - a lot. I'm pretty good at that. I go 'Road to the Show,' where you build your own player. I build myself when I used to play as a center fielder. Power, speed, stealing bases.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Good
  • Power
  • Pretty

• I love blacks and gays and latinos, as long as they don't live next door.

  

  Mojo Nixon
  • Reality
  • Doors
  • Latino