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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I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
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Say not unto thyself, Behold, truth breedeth hatred, and I will avoid it; dissimulation raiseth friends, and I will follow it. Are not the enemies made by truth, better than the friends obtained by flattery?
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Taxpayers should not be on the hook for subsidizing former presidents' lives to the tune of millions of dollars.
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Nobody leaves this place without singing the blues.
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I was never afraid to put this out. That was never the issue -- ever. I wanted it to sound contemporary but still be me. It was just a matter of getting it right.
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I have so many friends who don't know how to cook.
