Rick Gonzalez Quotes

If I'm going to do something, I'm going to do it - no matter what.

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• I like fiction and the kind of history that gives the grace and flavor of fiction to the past. No bloviation on current events, please. I can write that junk myself.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • History
  • Past
  • Myself

• No amount of law enforcement can solve a problem that goes back to the family.

  

  J. Edgar Hoover
  • Family
  • Law
  • Problem

• Normally, I rely heavily on my director to massage me out of my actor comfort zones.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Actor
  • Comfort
  • Director

• We have a president who stole the presidency through family ties, arrogance and intimidation, employing Republican operatives to exercise the tactics of voter fraud by disenfranchising thousands of blacks, elderly Jews and other minorities.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Family
  • Exercise
  • Arrogance

• I've done a lot of practical anthropology, living in villages with people and realizing how difficult it is to get out of poverty. When in poverty, people use their skill to avoid hunger. They can't use it for progress.

  

  Hans Rosling
  • People
  • Done
  • Progress

• I'm lucky. Usually you're dead to get your own museum, but I'm still alive to see mine.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • See
  • Lucky
  • Museum

• It takes so long for the folks who are earning minimum wage to finally see a little bit of a rise... that it takes a little nudge, I think, from government.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Long
  • Government
  • Minimum Wage

• It's also ironic that in the old days of tape and tape hiss and vinyl records and surface noise, we were always trying to get records louder and louder to overcome that.

  

  T Bone Burnett
  • Trying
  • Days
  • Ironic

• I'm a big collector of vinyl - I have a record room in my house - and I've always had a huge soundtrack album collection. So what I do, as I'm writing a movie, is go through all those songs, trying to find good songs for fights, or good pieces of music to layer into the film.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Good
  • Music
  • Writing

• World-building is my favorite pastime, so with me, I'm always about reining myself in. I don't want to lose too much of the mystery by hammering every detail to death. I did fiddle with lots of maps for 'Glass Sword,' as the second installment sees Mare, Cal and company traveling throughout their country, and that's always fun for me.

  

  Victoria Aveyard
  • World
  • Country
  • Fun

• One knows less about one's own destiny than about anything else on earth.

  

  Gabrielle Roy
  • Earth
  • Destiny
  • Own

• Persons who are born too soon or born too late seldom achieve the eminence of those who are born at the right time.

  

  Katharine Anthony
  • Time
  • Too Late
  • Right Time

• There's a great danger in making this seem more important than it is, this whole Free Cinema thing.

  

  Karel Reisz
  • Great
  • Important
  • Free

• Whenever I Google for clothes, I always look at what Angelina Jolie is wearing. I love Sienna Miller, and I really like Rihanna's style, too. There's the edgy girl, classy girl, and the Bohemian chic girl. I guess I'm all of that combined into one.

  

  Yuna
  • Love
  • Girl
  • Style

• $200, 300 million games, I'm a little scared about that; there aren't a lot of companies that have the resources or the courage to spend that much.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Courage
  • Games
  • Scared

• Set realistic goals, keep re-evaluating, and be consistent.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Goals
  • Consistent
  • Realistic

• The NFL, like life, is full of idiots.

  

  Randy Cross
  • Life
  • Like
  • Idiots

• I like routine.

  

  Gail Porter
  • Like
  • Routine

• I'm too shy to express my sexual needs except over the phone to people I don't know.

  

  Garry Shandling
  • People
  • Know
  • Shy

• Obviously the horse can still do things that the gas car can never do, and the gas car will always be able to do things the electric car can't do. But they have really different uses and advantages.

  

  Chris Paine
  • Different
  • Horse
  • Electric Car

• I strongly believe that missionaries make better products. They care more. For a missionary, it's not just about the business. There has to be a business, and the business has to make sense, but that's not why you do it. You do it because you have something meaningful that motivates you.

  

  Jeff Bezos
  • Business
  • Products
  • Missionaries

• I appreciate all the people that can respect and appreciate my music.

  

  Jhene Aiko
  • People
  • Respect
  • Appreciate

• If I'm going to do something, I'm going to do it - no matter what.

  

  Rick Gonzalez
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