Robert Rodriguez Quotes
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When the Chinese first came to San Francisco, they were actually welcomed by the mayor and they had special ceremonies for them-again this is when their colony was very small, only a few Chinese.
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In Japan, there is less a culture of preserving old buildings than in Europe.
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I try and sit on the fence because as soon as you voice any kind of opinion, people begin to think you're an idiot.
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If your access to health care involves your leaving work and driving somewhere and parking and waiting for a long time, that's not going to promote healthiness.
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Black women as a group have never been fools. We couldn't afford to be.
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No one wants to drown. Drowning would be the worst. Cause everyone knows that feeling. That feeling, oh it's the worst... when you think you're drowning.
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That's the miracle of fiction. I use it to spray on certain moments or places from my youth.
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My mother gave me a push. If I hadn't had her, maybe I wouldn't have had the push. If I hadn't gone to military school, maybe I wouldn't have decided to get with the program. Maybe I'd be running a bulldozer, rather than going on and doing something more.
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My older brother Mike is an excellent trumpet player. By the time he was 12, he was playing around Kansas City in classical situations. He was already an amazing talent.
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I play the guitar when I want to relax. But to play the guitar, you cut the nails. So one day, I'll cut the nails off.
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The first rounds of a tournament are always tricky because playing tennis takes a lot out of you.
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To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.
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When you're a star, critics can't make or break you.
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When I started out, I wanted to be the kind of artist who could play the CMA Music Festival and then turn around and play Bonnaroo, and I've managed to do both.
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My father was criticized as a dictator, but that should not overshadow his accomplishments in restructuring the country. He brought Korea out of 5,000 years of poverty. What he left unaccomplished was democratization of the system.
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One tends to overlook the fact that all during the 30's and actually during the late 40's I was a highly successful writer and a great many properties accumulated during that period of time.
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I dreamt that my hair was kempt. Then I dreamt that my true love unkempt it.
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Can't get up in the morning lately and I'm just sunk in a dream I'm always the ship in the stream
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If I take death into my life, acknowledge it, and face it squarely, I will free myself from the anxiety of death and the pettiness of life - and only then will I be free to become myself.
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I'm striving toward this acting thing. I'm definitely gonna work hard on that, whatever comes my way, I'm gonna work hard on it.
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To believe in 'the greater good' is to operate, necessarily, in a certain ethical suspension.
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watching a baseball game in Los Angeles
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I think that the "what if" game is what you guys get to do. I don't have to do that. I hate the "what if" game. I'm such a believer in everything happening the way it's supposed to happen.
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Changing the game is a mindset.
