Robert Rodriguez Quotes
People talk about immigration, but they won't talk about the corruption that actually exists between Mexico and the U.S.
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If a superhero knocks over a building, and there are 5,000 people in the building that we can presume are now dead, does it matter? Because they're not people we know. But if one dog we like gets run over by a car, it's the worst thing we've ever seen. I totally understand where that visceral reaction comes from. I have that same reaction.
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I really like performing for people.
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Like anything else, acting can become boring - a chore, really - if there isn't any challenge. And I like taking challenges. Just when people think they have me figured out, I like to surprise them.
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When most people think of Woodrow Wilson, they see a dour minister's son who never cracked a smile, where in fact he was a man of genuine joy and great sadness.
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So many songs are just a wink to the audience, but people take them seriously. 'My Humps?' C'mon!
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I know there is something out there and like most people, I tend to believe in it more when things go bad.
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Some people think that religion is not essential to society. I do not hold this view. I consider the foundation of religion to be essential to the life and practices of a society.
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I feel like, sometimes, when things are just handed to people, in a way, right away, you don't get a sense of what the rejection and the struggle is like that comes along with life.
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I don't think the 9/11 attacks taught us anything we didn't already know about religion. It has long been obvious - even to the deeply religious - that religious fanaticism is an extremely dangerous deranger of otherwise sane and goodhearted people.
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The people in your life are important. Meaningful relationships with those people are very important.
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I want to make it clear that I honestly answered every question put to me during the so-called Iran-Contra hearings. But if they didn't ask me about something, I wasn't about to reveal things that would put other people in jeopardy.
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I love proving people wrong.
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You know, it's a really adult thing, for some people, to choose to not be with the one that you love.
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The people who watch Fox are not going to watch CNN. You know, let's be honest.
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If you've been in a film that's seen by millions and millions and millions of people, you're more likely to be recognized for that than for your theater performances, which were seen by considerably less people. Why would I get upset by that?
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Specialists are people who always repeat the same mistakes.
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And a tiny number of people in a few states make these decisions, and we're left with these options that are increasingly not attractive to the American people.
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Even though people may be well known, they hold in their hearts the emotions of a simple person for the moments that are the most important of those we know on earth: birth, marriage and death.
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I don't like not having a job. Especially when I started Mixed Martial Arts, this was all I could do.
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I have sporadic OCD cleaning moments around the house. But then I get lazy and I'm cured. It's a very inconsistent personality trait.
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One of the reasons I like Barthes more than other writers of that ilk is because he had a literary quality.
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Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart.
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There's a lot to do in space. I want to learn more about the greenhouse effect on Venus, about whether there was life on Mars, about the environment in which Earth and the Sun is immersed, the behavior of the Sun.
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People talk about immigration, but they won't talk about the corruption that actually exists between Mexico and the U.S.
