Amy Rodriguez Quotes

My desire to compete has grown with each level of competition and is what still excites me today. I am blessed to have gone from the playground to winning a college national championship to representing my country and winning two Olympic gold medals.

Amy Rodriguez

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• The people of South Africa are ready to stand up to the oppressions of the Pretoria regime, and they are ready to fight back.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • People
  • Up
  • Fight

• I want to top expectations. I want to blow you away.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Want
  • You
  • Blow

• I'm a sucker for any band named after a work of literature. Los de Abajo take their name from Mariano Azuela's famous novel 'The Underdogs,' and that says a lot about who they are and the music they make.

  

  Daniel Alarcon
  • Work
  • Music
  • Band

• As a child, I had a serious illness that lasted for two years or more. I have vague recollections of this illness and of my being carried about a great deal. I was known as the 'sick one.' Whether this illness gave me a twist away from ordinary paths, I don't know; but it is possible.

  

  Jacob Epstein
  • Great
  • Serious
  • Child

• A lot of people think I had such a rosy career, but I wanted to identify that one of the things that helps you have a long career is learning how to deal with adversity, how to get past it. Once I learned how to get through that, others things didn't seem so hard.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
  • People
  • Long
  • Career

• Actually when I gave out the script, I gave it with a CD of all the music I wanted to put in the movie, and again, we never thought we'd get all that music.

  

  Zach Braff
  • Music
  • Movie
  • Thought

• One of my core principles is that I will never engage in a politics in which I'm trying to divide people or make them less than me because they look different or have a different religion. That's a core principle, that's not something I would violate.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Different
  • Trying

• These things I say, and shall say, if I can, are no longer, or are not yet, or never were, or never will be, or if they were, if they are, if they will be, were not here, are not here, will not be here, but elsewhere.

  

  Samuel Beckett

• Tears, that could be the tone, if they weren't so easy, the true tone and tenor at last.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • True
  • Tears

• And me I'm in the bathroomcrying out my eyelids because it's hard to be a manwhen you're scared, just like a little kid.

  

  Conor Oberst Bright Eyes

• I decided blacks should not have to experience the difficulties I had faced, so I decided to open a flying school and teach other black women to fly.

  

  Bessie Coleman
  • Women
  • School
  • Experience

• Trust is built with consistency.

  

  Lincoln Chafee
  • Trust
  • Consistency

• Shame doesn't exist as an emotion without the projected or perceived sense of judgment coming from somewhere else.

  

  Leslie Jamison

• I aspire to write what are called 'familiar essays.' They begin in the personal and end in the universal. It's not for me to say if I have been successful at it. But that is the hope.

  

  David Rakoff
  • Hope

• Once a profound truth has been seen, it cannot be 'unseen'. There's no 'going back' to the person you were. Even if such a possibility did exist... why would you want to?

  

  Dave Sim
  • Why
  • Truth
  • Profound

• Making a moonshot is almost more an exercise in creativity than it is in technology.

  

  Astro Teller
  • Technology
  • Exercise
  • Creativity

• I don't think I would have been great in the 17th century. I would have enjoyed the frocks, and certainly some of the food would have been appealing, but the disease and hygiene would have worried me.

  

  Peter Capaldi
  • Great
  • Food

• I thought, 'I loved Batman, I loved Spider-Man, I love all these characters, but Catwoman is really different from any other one.'

  

  Denise Di Novi
  • Different
  • Batman

• I remember very little about writing the first series of 'Hitchhiker's.' It's almost as if someone else wrote it.

  

  Douglas Adams
  • Writing
  • Remember

• The battle between two men over a girl is the same as the fight for two men over a piece of land. It is all about desire. There is no difference between a love triangle and the conflict between Israel and Palestine.

  

  Bruno Dumont
  • Men
  • Girl
  • Desire

• The biggest thrill wasn't in winning on Sunday but in meeting the payroll on Monday.

  

  Art Rooney
  • Winning
  • Sunday
  • Monday

• I was in Deadwood at the time and on hearing of the killing made my way at once to the scene of the shooting and found that my friend had been killed by McCall.

  

  Calamity Jane
  • Time
  • Way
  • Friend

• The political form of a society wherein the proletariat is victorious in overthrowing the bourgeoisie will be a democratic republic.

  

  Vladimir Lenin
  • Political
  • Democratic
  • Communism

• My desire to compete has grown with each level of competition and is what still excites me today. I am blessed to have gone from the playground to winning a college national championship to representing my country and winning two Olympic gold medals.

  

  Amy Rodriguez
  • Desire
  • Winning
  • Medals