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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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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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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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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'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.
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I always had a good time in theatre, even when shows don't turn out as well as I'd like.
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Oil is like a wild animal. Whoever captures it has it.
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Principles and rules are intended to provide a thinking man with a frame of reference.
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If I'd done a quarter of the things of which I'm accused, I'd be pickled in alcohol, I'd be a registered drug addict and would have sired half the children in the world's cricket-playing countries
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I figured out early on what I wanted to do.
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We have to make bureaucracy sexy.
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I had been carpooling kids for 33 years.
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Belief in these solitary men springs from a longing for a fraternity without name, for a deeper spiritual relationship than is possible between human beings.
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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.
