Robert Rodriguez Quotes
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My history teacher was utterly terrifying, but her lessons were very inspiring. She got me interested in people and stories, which then led me to acting.
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I'm not of the American ilk that, you know, your lover needs to be your best friend and know you inside out. I think he should know you well enough to please you. Otherwise, what secret will there be to tell him when you're ninety?
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As a successful romantic novelist - one of my publishers is Mills & Boon - I create the sort of male heroes that no woman could fail to adore and few real men could hope to emulate.
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History is a race between education and catastrophe.
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The Wreckoning is a darker song. But the record is positive.
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Every designer needs a story. Mine is all about glamour because my family has been in the business of glamour for three generations. My grandfather Shamshuddin Khan started his embroidery and fabric-making business in the 1930s.
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I love the science-fiction genre because there's always so many endless possibilities! It's a limitless genre and can be fun playing around with otherworldly ideas.
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We must master our egoism, and through this mastery, step outside ourselves and educate ourselves in giving. Fasting requires that we rediscover all that is alive around us, and reconcile ourselves with our environment.
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I'm parodied as being some right-wing fundamentalist extremist, it just isn't true. The parody doesn't reflect reality.
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I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another door - or I'll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.
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Man has an innate capacity for violence, but can only justify it in the name of justice.
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Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book.
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When you take your attention into the present moment, a certain alertness arises. You become more conscious of what's around you, but also, strangely, a sense of presence that is both within and without.
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In the past, there hasn't been much reliable information about startups and small businesses available online. It's information that's really valuable, and it's information that people want to share.
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In a higher phase of communist society... only then can the narrow horizon of bourgeois right be fully left behind and society inscribe on its banners: from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.
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There's something about the expanse of nature that forces you to think clearly.
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I'm a very low-key person, but for some reason, I like to act out.
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When I'm passionate about something, I just get excited.
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For those, like me, who can't rely on being given a home smoker this Christmas, you can build your own approximation with just a roll of tin foil and a big wok or pan for which you have a lid.
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I was born in Paris, and I haven't moved, except until now - I live in the suburbs and I hate it.
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I learned how to lend money by cleaning up the messes of others who had made loans before me.
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A tour should act as pre-season preparation and not only be used as a way of making money. We are going to change it next season.
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Ta vertu met ta gloire au-dessus de ton crime.
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Creativity, not money, is used to solve problems.
