Robert Rodriguez Quotes

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• The Romantics were whipping boys of the New Criticism, but they appealed to me anyway. I was recalcitrant. It was clear to me that they had thought innovatively.

  

  M. H. Abrams
  • Thought
  • Criticism
  • Romantics

• Being able to walk out of the studio after a week of intense recording and jump into a cold sea and sit in a hot spring and soak for a few hours completely resets the whole system. Really refreshing. For me, it's all about stepping out of the ordinary. Even psychically.

  

  Damien Rice
  • Cold
  • Sea
  • Spring

• An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Action
  • Theory
  • Worth

• They say that it were great reproof to the king to take again what he has given, so that they will not suffer him to have his own good, nor land, nor forfeiture, nor any other good but they ask it from him, or else they take bribes of others to get it for him.

  

  Jack Cade
  • Good
  • Great
  • King

• Today, only 2 percent of the people know the name of someone serving in uniform. That means 2 percent of your listeners can actually conjure up the image of someone wearing the uniform of the military of the United States.

  

  Oliver North
  • People
  • Up
  • Today

• It is not length of life, but depth of life.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Life
  • Depth
  • Length

• I've had fans come and knock on my door. I'm usually polite, but I'm usually very direct and say, 'It's not cool that you come here uninvited.'

  

  Gary Allan
  • Cool
  • Door
  • Fans

• Revolution in the modern case is no longer an uncouth business.

  

  Garet Garrett
  • Business
  • Revolution
  • Modern

• You cannot put 50 years of the Marvel universe into a movie. It's impossible.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Movie
  • Universe
  • Years

• Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.

  

  Walter Benjamin
  • Life
  • Real
  • Wisdom

• The trouble with conservatives is that too many of them come to Washington thinking they are going to drain the swamp, only to discover that Washington is a hot tub.

  

  M. Stanton Evans
  • Thinking
  • Trouble
  • Discover

• The Vatican has to strike a difficult balance between running a country and running a religious institution.

  

  Ian Caldwell
  • Country
  • Running
  • Religious

• I actually didn't always want to be an actor.

  

  Jack Kilmer
  • Want
  • Always
  • Actor

• From the very first, my countrymen have followed my literary career, now criticizing, now praising my work, but hardly ever letting a single word be buried in indifference.

  

  Halldor Laxness
  • Work
  • Career
  • Single

• Touring is very routine. You get to the city, you go to the hotel, you got to be at the hotel by a certain time - it's very routine. I'm not a very structured person, so when I get some structure, it's cool; it's good for me.

  

  J. Cole
  • Time
  • Good
  • City

• When you're a fighter, and you're not doing good in your work, that happens - you lost the fight.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Good
  • Work
  • Lost

• I was socially isolated as a kid. I had friends, but I wasn't very good at sports and that sort of thing so I became quite comfortable being by myself, exploring. The world was my private playground, and in it, I was supreme. Darwin, Faraday, Huxley and other great scientists were my companions.

  

  Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
  • World
  • Good
  • Great

• The great genius does not let his work be determined by the concrete finite conditions that surround him, whilst it is from these that the work of the statesman takes its direction and its termination. … It is the genius in reality and not the other who is the creator of history, for it is only the genius who is outside and unconditioned by history.

  

  Otto Weininger
  • Work
  • Great
  • History

• The Universe is worked and guided from within outwards.

  

  H. P. Blavatsky
  • Universe

• An artist's sphere of influence is the world.

  

  Carl Maria von Weber
  • World
  • Artist
  • Influence

• Waste paper is like a forest - paper recycles itself, generation after generation.

  

  Zhang Yin
  • Like
  • Generation
  • Forest

• One of my friends started a company in 1997, seven years before Facebook, called SocialNet. And they had all these ideas, and you could be, like, a cat, and I'd be a dog on the Internet, and we'd have this virtual reality, and we would just not be ourselves. That didn't work because reality always works better than any fake version of it.

  

  Peter Thiel
  • Work
  • Friends
  • Reality

• Computer games tend to be boys' games, warlike games with more violence. We have not spent enough time thinking through how to encourage more girls to be involved in computing before coming to college so they can see a possible career in information technology.

  

  Freeman A. Hrabowski III
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Career

• I want to push technology boundaries to be more efficient.

  

  Robert Rodriguez Chingon
  • Technology
  • Boundaries