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.
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You can't judge your characters or otherwise; it's not about you, it's about them.
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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!
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How can something that's 95% water be so divisive? Alone among vegetables, the poor, innocent stick of celery elicits the most vicious attacks.
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I prefer to believe it's my responsibility if a film of mine works or doesn't work.
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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.
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Computer animation is one way to liberate people from their circumstantial gravity, and it is one way to give them mental freedom.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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My parents were amazing and wonderful, but there was a lot of pressure to do my best and in every way possible.
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I turned Compaq from a small company with troubles into a computer powerhouse. We can do the same at Intershop.
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I've always wanted to take up work that my heart is convinced about. And I shall continue to do so.
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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?
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The good news is world population growth rate decreases systematically and is expected to reach zero by 2050, thanks to urbanisation and women's education.
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I am extremely rebellious. I have this strong, defiant spirit.
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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.
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I don't do the super-clean-living L.A. thing.
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Focus on the mind and the soul. Read. Study. Enrol in a course of lectures. Pray. Become a member of a religious congregation. Study the Bible or other ancient works of wisdom.
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Had the people who started Facebook decided to stay at Harvard, they would not have been able to build the company, and by the time they graduated in 2006, that window probably would have come and gone.
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I know people go on about Twitter, but it is amazing. It's whatever you want it to be, and all the women got in there before the boys.
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We want to see a revised standard that narrows that opening and makes it more difficult for kids to get their fingers caught.
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Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more.
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I do like strong women in my movies. I have five sisters, so I've just grown up with that model.
