Rita Moreno Quotes

Lupe Velez was way before me; Dolores Del Rio was way before me, so I had no one. So the only one I could think of that I identified with was this gorgeous creature named Elizabeth Taylor, so she became my role model.

Rita Moreno

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Students often approached me about state-paid tuition while I was out campaigning. After I explained to them that if the state pays their tuition now, they will pay higher taxes to pay other people's tuition for the rest of their lives, most of them ended up agreeing with me.

Jesse Ventura

PeopleMeRestNowWillTaxes

I don't like it when celebrities get voice work. But then again, if I was the producer, I wouldn't want a bunch of no-names doing my show and have to worry about word-of-mouth. I see both sides of the story.

John DiMaggio

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America's moved so much of its production and manufacturing offshore, it's become a nation of middlemen.

Andrew Dominik

AmericaBecomeManufacturingNation

Portishead's production is just insane beats you would expect to be on a KRS-One album. But then there's this little white girl with an angel voice singing over it. It was a cool juxtaposition. I like 'It's A Fire.' That's a chill song with kind of a military drum thing going on, like a drummer boy.

Anders Holm

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I've always had trouble with authority.

John Milius

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Canada has two emblems - the beaver and the maple.

John W. Dawson

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Everyone's lives are sort of a succession, almost like handing the baton of your life off from one person to the next to the next to the next. And hopefully, that goes on for a long time, and the changes are healthy and interesting and not, like, spiraling into darkness.

Robin Sloan

LifeTimeDarknessInterestingLong

War is idiocy. We live on a small, small planet, and what we do to others is what we do to ourselves.

Rosanne Cash

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I'm not ashamed to look like a total idiot.

Lucy Punch

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Sci-fi is speculative fiction. 'Field of Dreams' is sci-fi.

Bonnie Hammer

DreamsFictionSci-FiField

I had been in so many towns and cities in America with John Kennedy, but I was not with him in Dallas, Texas, on November 21, 1963.

Pierre Salinger

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Call me a midget, but just be real. I am all for correct terms, but please don't tiptoe around feelings. Don't be too careful, because that shuts you off from people.

Peter Dinklage

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