Robert Rodriguez Quotes

I do like strong women in my movies. I have five sisters, so I've just grown up with that model.

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• Most people work for the private sector, which cannot exist without profit.

  

  Larry Elder
  • People
  • Work
  • Profit

• You can't judge your characters or otherwise; it's not about you, it's about them.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • You
  • Judge
  • Them

• I loved the glamour and excitement of the games and, in particular, knowing the names of each and every one of the referees - that's because my mom, a former basketball player, would yell at them from our front-row seats for making bad calls!

  

  Hannah Storm
  • Bad
  • Mom
  • Player

• How can something that's 95% water be so divisive? Alone among vegetables, the poor, innocent stick of celery elicits the most vicious attacks.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Alone
  • Water
  • Poor

• I prefer to believe it's my responsibility if a film of mine works or doesn't work.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Responsibility

• There are many who lust for the simple answers of doctrine or decree. They are on the left and right. They are not confined to a single part of the society. They are terrorists of the mind.

  

  A. Bartlett Giamatti
  • Mind
  • Society
  • Single

• Computer animation is one way to liberate people from their circumstantial gravity, and it is one way to give them mental freedom.

  

  Cai Guo-Qiang
  • People
  • Freedom
  • Gravity

• Museums are western inventions where the rich and the powerful or the government and the state tend to exhibit the signs and symbol and images of their culture.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Culture
  • Powerful
  • Rich

• I've really loved steampunk for a long time, ever since 'Wild Wild West,' and it's always been a genre and an era that's fascinated me. But so often it's set in England, and that doesn't really resonate with me, or maybe it just seems a little overdone.

  

  M. K. Hobson
  • Time
  • Me
  • Genre

• I can't even go down to the park anymore back home in Newark, New Jersey because my homeboys won't let me play. They tell me I'm too big time, too Hollywood, so they won't let me play out there no more.

  

  J. R. Smith
  • Time
  • Home
  • Me

• My parents were amazing and wonderful, but there was a lot of pressure to do my best and in every way possible.

  

  Kate Bosworth
  • Parents
  • Amazing
  • Best

• I turned Compaq from a small company with troubles into a computer powerhouse. We can do the same at Intershop.

  

  Eckhard Pfeiffer
  • Small
  • Same
  • Company

• I've always wanted to take up work that my heart is convinced about. And I shall continue to do so.

  

  Sakshi Tanwar
  • Up
  • Work
  • Heart

• When I walk for a designer, I walk the ramp as Vijender Singh, the boxer. I believe that by doing so, boxing will at least, in some way, get promoted in our entertainment industry. Plus, if cricketers can, why can't I?

  

  Vijender Singh
  • Believe
  • Why
  • Boxing

• I am extremely rebellious. I have this strong, defiant spirit.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Strong
  • Spirit
  • Rebellious

• Early in my career, I sometimes found it difficult to make the tough people decisions - I had to learn that. In business, you want to listen. You want to learn. You want to make sure you're not proceeding without information. But if you wait too long, you can actually hurt an organization even more.

  

  Laura Lang
  • People
  • Long
  • Business

• I don't do the super-clean-living L.A. thing.

  

  Rachel Bilson
  • Thing

• 'Memory.' 'Race.' 'Murder.' That's what they say about me. I am an elegiac poet. I have some historical questions, and I'm grappling with ways to make sense of history; why it still haunts us in our most intimate relationships with each other, but also in our political decisions.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • Why
  • History
  • Political

• There's an idea out there that salespeople have actually been obliterated by the Internet, which is just not supported by the facts.

  

  Daniel H. Pink

• War of the Worlds is rated PG-13. Much of the earth's population is wiped out, leaving very little time for sex or bad language.

  

  Anthony Oliver "A. O." Scott
  • Time
  • War
  • Bad

• If a company want to cast its net widely, they will absolutely find qualified women. I don't really think there are any real barriers to that.

  

  Mary Dillon
  • Women
  • Real

• I'd like to dedicate this award to all the women before me that never had the chances that I've had, the survivors, the pioneers and the outcasts. My blood, my tradition. And I'd like to thank all the people in this industry who've respected my choices and have not been afraid of the power and dignity that that entitled me to.

  

  Jodie Foster
  • People
  • Women
  • Power

• Where was I?""A different island," said old Tallow. Her voice was stern, but there was an ache in her look that Omakayas had never before seen. "An island called Spirit Island where everyone but you died of the itching sickness- you were the toughest one, the littlest one, and you survived them all.""You were sent here so you could save the others," she said. "Because you'd had the sickness, you were strong enough to nurse them through it. They did a good thing when they took you in, and you saved them for their good act. Now the circle that began when I found you is complete.

  

  Louise Erdrich
  • Good
  • Different
  • She

• I do like strong women in my movies. I have five sisters, so I've just grown up with that model.

  

  Robert Rodriguez Chingon
  • Women
  • Strong
  • Models