Ramon Rodriguez Quotes
Growing up in New York City, my car culture is minimal. I rode on the train, the bus. I walked; I rode my bike, and when I was younger, I rode my skateboard.
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Where are the gains for religious freedom and human rights to justify all the bombings, invasions and wars we have conducted in the lands from Libya to Pakistan - to justify the losses we have endured and the death and suffering we have inflicted?
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Poetry brings all possible experience to the same degree: a degree in the consciousness beyond which the consciousness itself cannot go.
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Khomeini was not a puppet like Arafat or Qaddafi or the many other dictators I met in the Islamic world. He was a sort of Pope, a sort of king - a real leader.
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I grew up as a country boy.
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I don't know what the instinct is, to save every report card, every half-sentence scribbled note, but my mother did it pretty effectively, and I've done it to a fare-thee-well.
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In a small town, it's either sports or a band with your buddies. I was always athletic. But in college, I was exposed to all this new music, and I was drawn to hip-hop and R&B.
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Any time you have an injury, it's going to be tough.
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When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.
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Wherever magistrates were appointed from among those who complied with the injunctions of the laws, Socrates considered the government to be an aristocracy.
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I went into acting as psychotherapy, and it's still a work in progress.
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This is my ultimate fantasy: watching QVC with a credit card while making love and eating at the same time.
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War is one of the scourges with which it has pleased God to afflict men.
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I get paid the same money if I'm fighting on pay-per-view or on Fight Pass, and Fight Pass is just getting started. It's the future. The Internet, many people watch it.
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I longed to be bright and most certainly never was. I was rather hopeless, I suspect.
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I live in New York. I don't really particularly want to move to LA.
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For some reason, I spent my early thirties reading as much postwar Hungarian fiction as I could get my hands on.
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What is the future of the woman's movement? How in the hell do I know? I don't run it.
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If I manage to leave my bedroom and get to the gym, that makes me feel good about myself! For me, the most difficult part is getting out of bed, but once I'm out, I really enjoy playing sports.
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25, 30 years ago, that meant something, they were making some money. And they were doing all sorts of comedy, screaming at the audience, basically crowd control. And then there was the whole urban comedy scene.
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When you find peace within yourself, you become the kind of person who can live at peace with others.
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Having grown up in dire poor, the thing that I hated the most in life was poverty.
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But I did feel a friendship with him.
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Say yes to everything. 'You want me to buy you some food?' Yes. 'You want me to buy you a car?' Yes.
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Growing up in New York City, my car culture is minimal. I rode on the train, the bus. I walked; I rode my bike, and when I was younger, I rode my skateboard.
