Rafael Cruz Quotes
Only in America can someone start with nothing and achieve the American Dream. That's the greatness of this country.
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If you make a film too American, it won't travel. It will have no life outside of its own country.
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I once said, 'Steve Jobs is the American Xavier Niel,' but that was humour.
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With the decline of America's global preeminence, weaker countries will be more susceptible to the assertive influence of major regional powers.
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Among my books, the ones that sell best are for readers between the ages of 8 and 12. According to a study by the Association of American Publishers, the largest area of industry growth in 2014 was in the children and young adult category.
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I love Johnny Cash but I don't love country music that much.
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One of the things I like best about Netflix is that they make projects like 'Beasts of No Nation.' It's a film about a reality in an African country where kids were being used to be soldiers in a war. And it made so much sense to me as a citizen of the world.
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Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.
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Before my book, 'California,' came out, I had modest hopes for it. Or, let's put it this way - I had the same hopes that every literary fiction writer in America has: I wanted the novel to be well-received, critically. As for sales? I didn't want it to disappoint, but I didn't expect it to be a best-seller, either.
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I learned that fighting on the chess board could also have an impact on the political climate in the country.
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I was a star in Italy, Austrailia, Germany and Japan before the American stations ever paid attention at all.
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I'm a registered, vetted gun owner, but that's because I live way out in the country, like way out in the middle of nowhere.
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There is no such thing as a little country. The greatness of a people is no more determined by their numbers than the greatness of a man is by his height.
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A fighter lives in his training camp, and I'm not always paying attention to what is happening on the outside. But I do know the Mexican people and the Mexican-American people in this country are very hard-working people. That's my only comment about Donald Trump.
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Finally, in my critique of the immigration image of America, it is also important to know that we're not only a nation of immigrants, but we are in some part a nation of emigrants, which often gets neglected.
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There's about one sword-swallower per 2 to 4 million persons in each country.
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The United States was the first country in the history of the world to be consciously created out of an idea - and the idea was liberty.
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Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.
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If you write any kind of fiction about America, you immediately have to start doing some research about guns, so in some ways, 'Gun Machine' is just the culmination of 20 years of reading about guns.
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Every other civilized nation in the world has been compelled to care for its forests, and so must we if waste and destruction are not to go on to the bitter end, leaving America as barren as Palestine or Spain.
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If a remake is not good, no one wants to see it and, again, it doesn't hurt the original.
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Peace is its own reward.
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I understood, through rehab, things about creating characters. I understood that creating whole people means knowing where we come from, how we can make a mistake and how we overcome things to make ourselves stronger.
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I don't really want to go into it, because whenever I say anything about my past now, it becomes a pissing match... but I realised that I had acquiesced, in my 40s, to an idea of 'You know what, maybe this thing that you wanted in your life, maybe it just wasn't important.'
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Only in America can someone start with nothing and achieve the American Dream. That's the greatness of this country.
