Thania Gonzalez Quotes

In memory of Emily we would like everyone to go out and do random acts of kindness, random acts of love to your friends or your neighbors or your fellow students because there is no way to make sense of this. It's what Emily would have wanted. ~ Luis Gonzalez

I never want to be satisfied. I never want to be like, 'OK, this is good enough.' I always want to get to the next level and help the team improve. ~ Carlos Gonzalez

Really, Mexico City has always been this big, complex monster of a city that has always had real problems and needs, and I've always found my way through it in different ways. ~ Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Chard and kale are my favorite these days. ~ Matt Gonzalez

If you stretch tragedy, it will always become comedy. ~ Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I'm less interested in reality. I'm more interested in perception, the truth of the universe that we see. ~ Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Something I tell my students is to read once; then if you still have problems with it, read it a second time. If you still have problems, get drunk and read it a third time ... and you might get something out of it. ~ Felix Gonzalez-Torres

Eyes without sight can still have vision ~ Gonzalez, Joseph

Some types of environmental restoration projects are well-known; restored wetlands, for instance, or coal mine reclamation projects. Recently though, larger dam removal projects have started, a number of them in Washington state. ~ Matt Gonzalez

To make a film is easy; to make a good film is war. To make a very good film is a miracle. ~ Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I began to learn about the camera and the actors. That gave me a lot of the skills. At the same time, advertising gives you a lot of vices, for example, an obsession for a superficial look, but at the same time, it gives you the capacity to synthesize the story - tell a story in one minute. ~ Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

When I was sixteen, I was an absolutely romantic guy. I fell in love every week. I mean, I was in love with everybody, but unfortunately, nobody was in love with me. ~ Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

When I think about growing up, I feel most affected by two travels that I made working in cargo boats when I was 16 and 18. One of them crossed through the Mississippi and Baton Rouge and Mobile, Alabama, and another went all the way to Europe. ~ Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I think bad movies are made around the world, not just in Hollywood. There are as many bad art films in the whole world as there are bad commercial films. ~ Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

What are you doing extra? That's what counts. That's when you're working hard - when you're going above and over what's expected of you" (102). - Tony Gonzalez, "The Giant Within ~ Denzel Washington

The Indians are a marginal people in Guatemala just like I am a marginal person in the first world. ~ Luis Gonzalez

I think when you turn 50 you get a little melancholic in a way. ~ Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Two words guided the making of 'Babel' for me: 'dignity' and 'compassion.' These things are normally forgotten in the making of a lot of films. Normally there is not dignity because the poor and dispossessed in a place like Morocco are portrayed as mere victims, or the Japanese are portrayed as cartoon figures with no humanity. ~ Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

For me, the most important thing that I have to accomplish is to be a good father. That's the most difficult challenge of my life. That's the most important thing for me, more than films. ~ Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I will play the characters with last names like Sanchez and Gonzalez until the day I die, but I also want to play the 'Michelle Smiths.' ~ Gina Rodriguez

To direct actors is difficult. To direct actors in another language is more difficult, but directing non-actors in another language is one of the craziest things that I have done and one of the most rewarding experiences I have had. ~ Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I'm my own biggest critic. I'm the one who has to go home and look at myself in the mirror. ~ Tony Gonzalez

["Manning Up"'s] essays definitely nuance the idea of transitioning into a "shared manhood" (much like feminists of color have complicated the idea of "shared womanhood"). Trans men don't all transition to just become "men," which was one of the projects' cornerstone concepts. They become black men, white men, queer men, straight men, working class men, affluent men, fatherly men, single men, spiritual men, etc. etc. All of these mean different things when filtered through social and intimate, familial lenses.

One major boon of the growth in transgender literature ... is that we get to tease out these complexities in lives that will be popularly portrayed as monolithic unless we provide counter-scripts."

- from a National Book Critics Circle interview with writer Rigoberto Gonzalez ~ Mitch Kellaway

Usually the Indian people are outsiders who have to look up at the people who look down. ~ Luis Gonzalez

Time is what allows stories to spread into people's consciousness. ~ Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Everything anyone has ever felt
is a variation of 'sad' or 'happy' or 'angry'
everyone feels the same things over and over again ~ Mira Gonzalez

Freddy and his brother Tesoro have not seen each other in five years, and they sit at the kitchen table in Freddy's house and have a jalapeno contest. A large bowl of big green and orange jalapeno peppers sit between the two brothers. A saltshaker and two small glasses of beer accompany this feast. When Tesoro nods his head, the two men begin to eat the raw jalapenos. The contest is to see which man can eat more peppers. It is a ritual from their father, but the two brothers tried it only once, years ago. Both quit after two peppers and laughed it off. This time, things are different. They are older and have to prove a point. Freddy eats his first one more slowly than Tesoro, who takes to bites to finish his and is now on his second. Neither says anything, though a close study of each man's face would tell you the sudden burst of jalapeno energy does not waste time in changing the eater's perception of reality. Freddy works on his second as Tesoro rips into his fourth. Freddy is already sweating from his head and is surprised to see that Tesoro's fat face has not shanged its steady, consuming look. Tesoro's long, black hair is neatly combed, and not one bead of sweat has popped out. He is the first to sip from the beer before hitting his fifth jalapeno. Freddy leans back as the table begins to sway in his damp vision. He coughs, and a sharp pain rips through his chest. Tesoro attempts to laugh at his brother, but Freddy sees it is something else. As Freddy finishes his third ~ Ray Gonzalez

We have these ambitions that are very hard to accomplish because life puts us in our place. We have this battle with mediocrity. ~ Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

It was a big surprise when I started to get attention in Sweden, going from biochemistry studies to touring and living from music only. There were a couple of years while I went to university when I was OK with thinking of music as just a nice recreation. ~ Jose Gonzalez

If you run for mayor, people say you're being egotistical. If you decide you won't run for mayor, people say you're being self-centered and egotistical. ~ Matt Gonzalez

I like to move around in the landscape between poetry and prose, between the lyrical and the narrative. ~ Rigoberto Gonzalez

On the other side, I do think there's a melding in there. There are situations
I've done contracts for Carlos Gonzalez, or just recently I did one for Elvis Andrus
to where there is a melding of the club's wants and the player's wants where you do things in advance of free agency. ~ Scott Boras

At 19, I was still figuring out how to throw a fastball. ~ Gio Gonzalez

'Amores Perros' is rock, '21 Grams' is jazz, 'Babel' is an opera, and 'Biutiful' is a requiem. ~ Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

From the time we open our eyes, we live in a Steadicam form, and the only editing is when we talk about our lives or remember things. ~ Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

'Biutiful' is a tough film. It doesn't make concessions to the vulgarity of light entertainment. It's not the kind of film that you see every day in the Cineplex. But as an artist, it's the thing that I needed to do. ~ Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I think we are all connected in this world. ~ Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

It just seemed the timing of it was a little bit of pandering to the public at a time of an election. ~ Matt Gonzalez

I can't understand the conditions of a corporate product being designed and getting millions. I admire it, it's great, but I don't know how to do that. I have to have the wheel. ~ Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

The way I put together images is a reactive art. ~ Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Nowadays, a critic has to watch 700, 800 films a year, and I know through experience, being a juror in prestigious film festivals where supposedly the best films are arriving, from twenty films maybe you see two that are good, one that is so-so, and one that is extraordinary. And the other sixteen are terrible. ~ Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Human suffering is articulated in language; communication is how we seek help, consolation, etc. ~ Rigoberto Gonzalez

The visual architecture of 'Biutiful' is the most sophisticated of all the films I have directed. ~ Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu