Lela Rochon Quotes
There are people who went to prison, died, gave their life so Obama could be president of the United States.
Quotes to Explore
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Art should be an oasis: a place or refuge from the hardness of life.
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The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.
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The key is working with great directors. A film is so many different people and all their talents, but particularly the directors, because of the idiosyncrasies of that person.
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People have got to get together and work together. I'm tired of the kind of oppression that white people have inflicted on us and are still trying to inflict.
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It's always convenient for certain people to heap accusations on Israel.
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I tend to be the type who is overly polite and sort of ingratiating to other people.
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Journalists always explain that people are mad at them because they tell the truth, which is often unpleasant or uncomfortable to hear. However, they fail in situations where there is more than one truth.
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The reason our games generate so much revenue is because we're stupid enough to charge $60 for a box or $50 for a download or something. You need used games because most people can't afford those prices.
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In life, sometimes you just lose.
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When I came to Congress, like our first panel, small business people, 64 percent of the people had health insurance. We'd buy it. Now, we're down to about 34 percent. That's why we have to do something on health care in this country because the cost is killing us.
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Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly.
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If you think about work, it's just this endlessly fascinating subject. We spend at least half of our waking hours working. So it becomes this incredible window into a whole variety of things: who we are human beings, how the economy works, how people relate to each other, how stuff is made, how the world spins on its axis.
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In general, people are afraid to acknowledge hallucinations because they immediately see them as a sign of something awful happening to the brain, whereas in most cases they're not.
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It's true: I don't remember what life was like before parenthood.
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You can learn new things at any time in your life if you're willing to be a beginner. If you actually learn to like being a beginner, the whole world opens up to you.
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I find it odd that people will go to a nice restaurant or to the theater in jeans and T-shirts.
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I have so much fun because I love to meet the women who wear my shoes and meet the clients. That, to me, is the best part - getting to know the faces of the people who actually wear my shoes and getting to have a conversation with them.
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Houston's one of the most diverse urban areas in the entire country, and most people here are really proud of that.
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Writers are essential. Readers are essential. Publishers are not.
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I'm just in tune to myself and what I need from the universe.
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As for suspense, I like to write books that draw you into the hero's plight from the opening pages, where people put their lives on the line for something - a belief, a family member, the truth.
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What is the poem, after it is written? That is the question. Not where it came from or why.
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I like to allow a story to arise as I'm writing scripts. I find it horrible when I try to think of something for the plot without really being on the ground and seeing where it goes.
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There are people who went to prison, died, gave their life so Obama could be president of the United States.
