Ricardo Antonio Chavira quotes

“I have experienced firsthand the tremendous impact breast cancer has on the women who fight it and the loved ones who support them. This is a disease that catches you unaware and, without the right resources, leaves you feeling frightened and alone.”
-- Ricardo Antonio Chavira

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“My son's the most precious thing to me: He's changed me from being selfish to selfless.”
-- Ricardo Antonio Chavira

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“I don't go to a lot of parties or do a lot of going out within, like, the Hollywood circle or celebrity-type circles and things like that.”
-- Ricardo Antonio Chavira

Source : "Controversial Movies Sympathetic to Terrorists; What Drives NASCAR Fandom?; Search Called Off for Show Dog; Samuel L. Jackson Weighs in on Oscar Noms". "Showbiz Tonight", edition.cnn.com. February 17, 2006.

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“I love my son, but my daughter has calmed me down.”
-- Ricardo Antonio Chavira

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“My daughter gets to paint my nails and put clips in my hair, and I love it.”
-- Ricardo Antonio Chavira

Source : "'Welcome to the Family': 'Desperate Housewvies' Ricardo Chavira shows off his tough side" by Jacqueline Cutler, screenertv.com. October 3, 2013.

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“If manufacturers are so sure there is nothing wrong with genetically modified foods, pesticides and cloned meats, they should have no problems labeling them as such. After all, cancer will kill one in every two men and one in every three women now alive, reports Samuel Epstein, chairman of the Cancer Prevention Coalition. Like our ancestors, we act in ways that will bemuse future societies. The military-industrial complex lubricates the mass-agriculture system with fossil fuels. Tons of heavy metals and other hazardous, even radioactive, waste is sprayed on American agricultural soil.”

“Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.”

Source : "Epigrams on Programming". ACM SIGPLAN Notices 17 (9), pp. 7-13, pu.inf.uni-tuebingen.de. September 1982.

“Giving cancer to laboratory animals has not and will not help us to understand the disease or to treat those persons suffering from it.”

“What I would say to the young men and women who are beset by hopelessness and doubt is that they should go and see what is being done on the ground to fight poverty, not like going to the zoo but to take action, to open their hearts and their consciences.”

“Sawyer was always the Vincent boy worth fighting for. He's the special one.”

“I think we are constantly faced with the same decision. The decision to be blindly obedient to authority versus the decision to try and change things by fighting the powers that be is always, throughout history, the only decision.”

“I would need to see changes in the Iraq governance. Otherwise I don't think strikes are going to have any impact and could be very well counterproductive.”

“The fact that the same proportionalities rule optimal running, flying and swimming is not a coincidence rather it is an illustration of the fact that a universal principle is involved. Running requires the least food when during each cycle a certain amount of work is destroyed by vertical impact and a certain amount to horizontal friction. The same balancing act is responsible for optimal flight and swimming.”

Source : "Everybody's Doing the Locomotion". www.foxnews.com. December 30, 2005.

“In the burning and devastated cities, we daily experienced the direct impact of war. It spurred us to do our utmost...the bombing and the hardships that resulted from them (did not) weaken the morale of the populace.”

Source : "Inside the Third Reich: Memoirs" by Albert Speer, (p. 363), 1970.

“Although they might not admit it, I think girls are very aware of the impact that they're having. But they never feel it themselves, and it's impossible to explain. It's like trying to tell a blind person what yellow is.”

Source : "Bringing Sexy Back". Interview with Scott Frampton, www.marieclaire.com. January 6, 2008.