Richard Rodriguez Quotes

I am just the classic person who wants to learn stuff. I want good tutors, and with Kurt I had the best.

It's true. In America, you can reinvent yourself at any turn. And, you know, if things aren't going well for you in life, everyone says, change, become someone different.

You have to be able to risk your identity for a bigger future than the present you are living.

When I'm single, I'm one guy, and when I'm in a relationship I'm totally another. They're both a good time.

In junior high school, I learned that I could be good at school. I remember liking the freedom to choose classes and the pleasure of learning and doing well. My perseverance and love of reading had somehow allowed me to overcome many disadvantages of dyslexia, and I read a lot of books for pleasure.

I didn't know exactly what I wanted to do in school, but I definitely didn't have adequate time to reach my full potential as a student.

It's interesting for me to always make myself look very different.

I change, like every single normal person.

You change with the guys you date.

A person is not the same in his life at all times. Your consciousness is developing all the time. When I started making 'El Topo,' I was one person. When I finished that picture, I was another person.

One changes from day to day, and... after a few years have passed one has completely altered.

Most of the time I liked school and got good grades. In junior high, though, I hit a stumbling block with math - I used to come home and cry because of how frustrated I was! But after a few good teachers and a lot of perseverance, I ended up loving math and even choosing it as a major when I got to college.

At 23, you can completely, literally reinvent yourself if you want to.

I saw a person that I never thought I would ever become.

It's very exciting to feel like a different woman with a new identity.

I know from my experiences in life that educators had an enormous impact and influence on me. And fortunately or unfortunately, I had a lot of experience with different educators.

I was only fifteen when I finished my high-school studies, always having held first rank in my class. The fatigue of growth and study compelled me to take almost a year's rest in the country. I then returned to my father in Warsaw, hoping to teach in the free schools.

Education is not about thinning the herd. Education is about helping every student succeed.

I consciously took this decision of changing my image from a bahu. I just wanted to look different and good.

I graduated college with a 3.5 GPA, when I came into college barely able to get in.

I use the transition of the airport, the flying from one place to another to really let go of the -isms, and the ideas that I have as an individual and kind of adapt and begin to morph.

The media attention - the negative, in particular - it makes you a different person.

I'm not the same guy that you may have seen from the 'I Get Wet' album. I'm not that same person, and I don't just mean that in a philosophical or conceptual way. It's not the same person at all.

The Boston College community took a personal interest in my success, not only as a student but as a human being.

I always like seeing people transforming themselves, in whatever way that might be, and a different accent is part of that.