Emilio Rivera Quotes
I ride five days out of the week. In fact, I take my bike as much as I can, especially with L.A. traffic. You want to get in and out, all the time.
Quotes to Explore
-
Gossip is the art of saying nothing in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid.
-
There's no doubt in the world that directing makes you a better actor. Me, anyway. There's no doubt in the world that it makes me a more collaborative actor.
-
War is over if you want it.
-
You learn who you really are in a fight - what you're really made of. You have to face yourself and rise above your own fears and failings.
-
Once you're a Virginian, you're always a Virginian.
-
One is forever throwing away substance for shadows.
-
In 1991, few North Koreans had ever used a telephone. You had to go to a post office to make a phone call.
-
Ultimately, all human activities have as their goal the realization of happiness. Why, then, have we ended up producing the opposite result? Could the underlying cause be our failure to correctly understand the true nature of happiness?
-
I was just lucky I lived in this time of mass-market paperbacks.
-
I think they have not learned over the years that the more you talk, the more I will want to beat you.
-
Most people honestly want to do as well as they can in their lives.
-
The Israeli public is frustrated with the way it is portrayed abroad.
-
It is not that I don't like contemporary country music because I do. I love it. I have recorded a lot and have had great success recording records that have not been very traditional country records.
-
I was under contract to Paramount. They wanted to make me into somebody which I was not. So I got so scared and rebelled, so they threw me out of the studio.
-
I take the family shopping round. The markets of the world.
-
Man, 'Hill Street Blues' was on when I was 12, and I remember feeling I'd never seen anything like it. It was that far ahead of its time, with dark characters you loved.
-
The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.
-
Nowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honors, friendships; the poor man everywhere lies low.
-
People say, "I'm tired of hearing about the war in Iraq. I'm tired of hearing about it." And it makes me realize how few people have deeper connections with it, as far as knowing people who have come back paralyzed or who have died, or families that have been affected . . . If they had a connection to it, then they wouldn't be tired of hearing about it.
-
Not too many people in America know about me, but all of Europe knows about me.
-
I have my own faith which I've developed. It's non-denominational. I don't even know if it's about God.
-
Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood or appreciated.
-
Ride at any fence hard enough, and the chances are you'll get over. The harder you ride the heavier the fall, if you get a fall; but the greater the chance of your getting over.
-
I ride five days out of the week. In fact, I take my bike as much as I can, especially with L.A. traffic. You want to get in and out, all the time.
