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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I know I've dreamed you, a sin and a lie I have my freedom but I don't have much time Faith has been broken, tears must be cried Let's do some living, after we die Wild horses couldn't drag me away Wild, wild horses, we'll ride them some day…
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In the attempt to make scientific discoveries, every problem is an opportunity — and the more difficult the problem, the greater will be the importance of its solution.
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If a man is going to leave one wife to marry another, it's better if he divorces the first before he marries the second.
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Reductio ad absurdum, which Euclid loved so much, is one of a mathematician's finest weapons. It is a far finer gambit than any chess play: a chess player may offer the sacrifice of a pawn or even a piece, but a mathematician offers the game.
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A lot of cinema is about the game of authenticity - do you feel it's real?
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Changing the game is a mindset.
