Robert Rodriguez Quotes
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Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it.
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One of the achievements of the reform movement is that people realize that they can be democrats and remain faithful Muslims. Democracy is now an established idea.
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Nearly every president in the past 100 years has declared national monuments, from Teddy Roosevelt creating the Grand Canyon National Monument to George W. Bush preserving 10 islands and 140,000 square miles of ocean waters in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands.
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As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.
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I love 'Annie Hall'; I will always come back to that film again and again. Diane Keaton has been such an inspiration to me. She always brings humour, but complexity, and I love watching her on screen. She's got real charisma.
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No, but it's not because I'm getting older that I'm trying to accelerate. But something very curious is happening: The older I get, the more ideas I'm getting.
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The current approach that psychiatry takes almost ignores social worlds in which mental health problems arise and tries to become highly biomedical like other branches of medicine such as cardiology or oncology. But psychiatry has to be far more embedded in people's personal and social worlds.
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No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.
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As leaders, we become whole when we see that our focused, singular commitment to making the numbers and the metrics cannot be effective on its own, but only when it is part of the whole picture - only when we see that it takes more than metrics to make up the whole.
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I feel like, when I'm 100% healthy, I can do anything.
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Bob Dylan impresses me about as much as... well, I was gonna say a slug but I like slugs.
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Therapists have tremendous power over their vulnerable clients, and it is very easy to take advantage of this power.
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I had a lot of resistance, and not just to fame. I was always conscious of not changing.
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Well, I certainly wouldn't want to live in the 18th century myself, or the 19th either, for that matter.
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My music is a personal thing, and I feel like if I talk too much about the songs, or if there's too much of my personal life out there, it ruins it.
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From my foster parents, the Deans, I received the love that was ultimately to strengthen me, even when I had forgotten its source. It was my foster mother, a half-Indian, half-German woman, who taught me to read, though she herself was barely literate. I remember her reading to me every day from 'True Romance' magazine.
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Any conversations we hear about 'So who are Pearl Jam marketing to?' are despicable.
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Since the dawn of recorded music, every generation has felt shocked by the musical tastes of the next.
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You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.
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Sometimes, great collaboration is hard to nurture online, so doing so offline is the way to go.
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All the power to them but I'm not interested in making yet another show that looks like some other show.
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Obviously, our political system is profoundly corrupted by, among other things, the influence of money. But, at a deeper level, the current structure is flawed because it looks to citizens for only two things - votes and money. I don't think we will see any healing until citizens are viewed in a whole new way.
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I get a lot done considering I spend half my day sleeping.
