Robert Rodriguez Quotes
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Life in California is beautiful.
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Philanthropy is natural. For a mother, taking care of her children is natural. If I am rich, I take care of the poor, like a mother would.
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Wine and women do not go with song. Alcohol is the worst enemy of the imagination.
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So I moved to Europe and only came back when directors like Robert Altman would call me after they'd seen my work in Full Metal Jacket.
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Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.
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I don't look at myself as suffering.
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In many films, as many different characters, I've killed many different people.
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I do not accept the right of big powers to change governments as and when it affects their interests.
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When I was a kid, I thought it was tough.
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Set a clear, easy-to-understand vision for your company, and make it be a mission people believe in.
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I like to leave a film open-ended, with a lingering feeling. I'll not do sequels of any of my films till I have subjects to explore.
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I was really inspired by these larger-than-life female artists like Lee Bontecou and Eva Hesse and Yvonne Rainier and the incredible Lynda Benglis. There were many women who were really driven and became successful, who were part of essential paradigm shifts, despite the fact that the art world was still dominated by men.
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From day one, I got addicted to being on stage and getting the applause and laughter.
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When I wake up every morning, I thank God for the new day.
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TV is obviously so different from film: because it's a never-ending process, it keeps going; you keep receiving new pages.
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Like you do about Nelson Mandela, you can't help feeling the guy's a good man.
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Buying found objects means repurposing something that was already made years before, sometimes decades before. It strikes a nice balance between the new and used equation we should strive for in our lives.
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As a comedian, I don't know if they're laughing because it's funny or if they're laughing at me because I'm not funny. And I'm thinking, 'Who cares? They're laughing.' If you go on stage, and they're laughing at you full-on for 60 minutes? You know, whatever puts them in the seats.
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When I was 4 my mother got divorced and we were very close to each other. I always wanted to be with her. She took me everywhere. When she went for dinner with friends or when they had meetings at the tennis club, I was always there.
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I had done some TV movies that were great experiences but, no, I wasn't looking to do a series.
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I'm not somebody who carries around a notepad and writes songs all day long. I don't imagine everything I think of is worth being in a song. So I tend to collect notes, and I set time aside to go to work and write songs.
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I hate doctors! They'll do anything... to keep you coming to them. They'll sell their souls. What's worse, they'll sell yours, and you never know it till one day you find yourself in hell.
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It would go a long way to caution and direct people in their use of the world that they would better studied and known in the creation of it. For how could man find the confidence to abuse it, while they should see the Great Creator stare them in the face, in all and every part thereof?
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I have so many friends who don't know how to cook.
