Robert Rodriguez Quotes
I'm all about freedom in art. I'm from Texas, so when someone tells you which way to ride your horse, you think 'I'll just go to a different ranch. You guys are riding it backwards anyway.
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I have vowed never to take antibiotics again unless I really need them. I also learned to pay attention to my body, know the difference between indigestion, an allergic reaction to food, a parasitic infection or worms. It's incredible how well I know my body. I really love that.
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A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.
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Long Kiss Goodnight has a huge cult following. They could make another version of that movie right now and make a lot of money.
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What role should religion play in the American public school classroom? My own knee-jerk response would be, 'none whatsoever,' but the Constitution isn't quite so direct on the subject.
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A modern health and social care system has to be completely focussed on the needs of its users.
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The bad boy: always more fun.
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You want all your books to stick around after you've gone.
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I don't think anyone really is interested in reading about my emotional state. It's not even interesting to me.
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There are still some terrible cliches in the presentation of Indian fiction. The lotus flower. The hennaed hands. In mainland Europe, people still slap these images on my books and I go bananas.
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I am grateful that I'm working, but I also have to say I've worked really, really hard and had to fight a lot.
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Only science and the spirit of seeking truth from facts can save China. I firmly believe in this.
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I was for civil unions and believed strongly that the flow of benefits and protections that would be provided in a civil union for same-sex couples, the decisions that have to be made, when health hardships are faced, when economic hardships are faced, I wanted all of those protections. I never strayed from them.
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I've got nothing to be ashamed of.
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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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Seriously, however, I learn a lot about my physical life in the aging and changing of my body.
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Don Was is a friend of mine; we've done projects together over the years.
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Life's too short when you find yourself sitting in a car for four hours every day trying to get from East L.A. to West L.A. to Hollywood and then back to East L.A.
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It's very important to feel foreign. I was born in England, but when I'm being a writer, everyone in England is foreign to me.
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Morality is not only taught; it is caught.
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The whole government publicity situation has everybody in the news business almost in despair, with half a dozen agencies following different lines.
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I want people of faith on my side, not just voting on election day but by hoisting me up by getting down on your knees and lifting me up in prayer. Those who have a different view of things are already organizing...Will you stand in the gap with those of us who believe there's a God, and a God who is strong? We can stand in the gap together and speak about issues we believe in and we will be victorious.
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I love movies, I've always been interested in them, but I wanted to wait for the right time to start acting.
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The human understanding, from its peculiar nature, easily supposes a greater degree of order and equality in things than it really finds.
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I'm all about freedom in art. I'm from Texas, so when someone tells you which way to ride your horse, you think 'I'll just go to a different ranch. You guys are riding it backwards anyway.
