Robert Rodriguez Quotes
I was a cartoonist when I was at university, but I decided to go into movie making knowing that I could still draw by doing movies, design work, story boards, and such.
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Origin stories are really important to me. I just like that sort of stuff and I feel like it makes a lot of sense to the guys, who they are. If you don't have that stuff, it's kind of a one dimensional version of it.
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I believe journalism or news will migrate to the online medium.
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Every child should at least grow up in family rather than without one.
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I have lots of passions - gardens, art, music and reading. I have eclectic taste and read a huge variety of books.
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One Hundred Year Starship really is about the idea that is we pursue an extraordinary tomorrow; we'll build a better world today.
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Men, women, and children who cannot live on gravity alone need something to satisfy their gayer, lighter moods and hours, and he who ministers to this want is, in my opinion, in a business established by the Creator of our nature. If he worthily fulfills his mission and amuses without corrupting, he need never feel that he has lived in vain.
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I came from a dance background, so that's what I did my whole teenage years. I was at the dance studio a lot. It just becomes your social scene and part of your life.
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I would rather not have contentious interviews. I'd rather do 30 minutes with Charlie Rose, laid back in a La-Z-Boy chair.
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Memories are like stones, time and distance erode them like acid.
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Every man over 40 should have a PSA test each year.
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In design-speak, 'a library' means a room lined with books, floor-to ceiling, but it all depends on the space you have. You may have a free-standing bookshelf of your favorite books if that's all you have room for.
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Be a bobbed cork: When you are pushed down, bob up.
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I'd love to have kids, but not at the moment.
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I never write when I'm drunk. Why should one need aids? The Muse is a high-spirited girl who doesn't like to be brutally or coarsely wooed. And she doesn't like slavish devotion - then she lies.
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I love to win. But probably equal to that - I love doing what I do.
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The politicians said Dr. Tom Coburn couldn't deliver babies when he got elected to the U.S. Senate.
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We never work on only one project because we never know if we will get permission for a project. So, for 'Over the River,' we started in 1992. I was just finishing 'The Umbrellas' in Japan and California, and I was also working on getting permission to wrap the Reichstag.
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When I was unemployed, I hosted lots of dinner parties. Now I have time to make a pot of soup for the week - if I'm lucky!
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Knowing you’re worthless doesn’t give you value any more than knowing you are a captive sets you free.
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Because knowing where we come from allows us to know who we are. Our past is part of us. We can't outrun our past, no matter how hard we try.
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Being a parent is the toughest thing I've ever done. But I'm not the kind of person to throw my kid in front of a TV. I'm the one to take out a book, puzzle, or flash cards.
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A wife is a gift bestowed upon a man to reconcile him to the loss of paradise.
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Good leadership is always human. It takes time and energy. It is hard work. Which is why good leadership is so special when we find it.
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I was a cartoonist when I was at university, but I decided to go into movie making knowing that I could still draw by doing movies, design work, story boards, and such.
