Alex Rocco Quotes

You study all your life, you work really hard to do your best work onstage and onscreen, and then you make your best money playing an ant.

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• It sounds kind of stupid, but I've never not wanted to be a musician. It's been inside me since I was little so I don't know what else I would do.

  

  Zola Jesus
  • Know
  • Me
  • Stupid

• The tragedy of all of this is that it happened to me and it shouldn't have happened. It ruined my life and my career. That's the tragedy of this.

  

  Rafael Palmeiro
  • Life
  • Career
  • Me

• My daughter Mira's first media experience was with the first-generation iPad more than five years ago. Her speech therapist used this with her to encourage her to talk, as she was speech delayed. I watched as she immediately navigated the iPad naturally, with such ease.

  

  Raney Aronson-Rath
  • Experience
  • Daughter
  • Therapist

• The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Men
  • Business
  • Failure

• Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.

  

  Manoj Bhargava
  • Service
  • Intelligent
  • Choice

• When I was younger, I wanted to marry early, like at 23. Year by year, I found things I wanted to do, and the thought of marriage disappeared. But I don't want to marry too late. Around 31?

  

  Park Shin-hye
  • Marriage
  • Thought
  • Year

• I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.

  

  Fernando Botero
  • Painting
  • New York
  • Paris

• There is a certain amount of dissatisfaction that goes with knowing your time, talent and abilities are not being properly used.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Time
  • Talent
  • Knowing

• Growing up, I had a very happy childhood, with two parents who are still very much together.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Up
  • Together
  • Happy

• Most of the tasks we do are for humans. For example, a tax calculation is counting numbers so the government can pull money out from my wallet, but government consists of humans.

  

  Yukihiro Matsumoto
  • Money
  • Government
  • Numbers

• The more walking-around money I have, the less I walk around.

  

  Iggy Pop
  • Money
  • Walking
  • More

• I'm honestly not the kind of person who wants to step up to a podium, test the microphone and be like, 'Hey, I'm homosexual and this is who I am, hear me roar.' That's not who I am.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • Homosexual
  • Microphone
  • Podium

• I'll never be immune to criticism, and that's okay, and I'm very comfortable with that.

  

  Damon Lindelof
  • Criticism
  • Comfortable
  • Okay

• When someone has the desire to go to school and has the ability but can't get into our schools, that's wrong. Education drives the economy and the quality of life.

  

  Jack Miller
  • Life
  • School
  • Education

• The war against terrorism is a war against those who engage in torture.

  

  Ed Markey
  • War
  • Terrorism
  • Engage

• If I were governor, and a bill came to my desk that provided for background checks at gun shows, I would sign that.

  

  Wendy Davis
  • Gun
  • Background
  • Desk

• My daughter is, of course, perfect. Everyone's child is, but mine really is perfect. But I could not have raised her without my parents. From the time she was seven months until now, I have been a single parent.

  

  Valerie Jarrett
  • Time
  • She
  • Parents

• I don't think anybody wants to see a dour 'Star Trek' movie.

  

  Damon Lindelof
  • Movie
  • Think
  • Star

• I’m still having trouble convincing Pax that underwear and pants go together – underwear is not pants!

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Together
  • Trouble
  • Pants

• I really love the Marvel universe, one of my favorite is Daredevil. I really love also the Punisher and I don't understand why they made so many bad movies on that character.

  

  Xavier Gens
  • Why
  • Character
  • Bad

• Needless to say, if I knew my daughter would eventually develop a fondness for methamphetamine or crack cocaine, I might never sleep again. But if she does not try a psychedelic like psilocybin or LSD at least once in her adult life, I will worry that she may have missed one of the most important rites of passage a human being can experience.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Worry

• I'm suspicious of places that look decorated. I can understand why people do it, but you see too many cushions or a piece of fabric hanging and it's, like, 'Ugh!' A good house with good art will always work, no matter what.

  

  Douglas Coupland
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.

  

  Robert Frost
  • Work
  • Disease
  • Egotism

• You study all your life, you work really hard to do your best work onstage and onscreen, and then you make your best money playing an ant.

  

  Alex Rocco
  • Life
  • Work
  • Money