Freddy Fender Quotes
I was separated from my wife at the time. A lot of people think I wrote it about prison.
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There's a lot more to me than just power.
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Americans are really obsessed with their teeth being white and straight, aren't they? I saw this little girl the other day with one of those whole head braces. Elastic all the way around! How traumatizing for a child to have to wear one of those! You look like a monster.
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You mustn't upstage the bride.
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I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go.
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A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.
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When I find the right information, the Web is a blessing; when I don't, it's a distraction.
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I needed to take a break from performing, and from the Peas, to be happy. I craved female time, and time with my husband to feed my soul. My life now is about being balanced. I'm passionate about work and working out, seeing friends and family, and letting my hair down once in a while.
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Many of us will be obsessed with one or another kind of secret or revelation, be it gossip about friends or ourselves, a fantasy about spies, or a worry about the most personal information now stored in data banks. But few of us think about secrets in general, or about the moral rights and wrongs of hiding or exposing them.
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I thought what would be really just choice for a revamp and a reboot is 'The Greatest American Hero.' I think I'd be just that kind of perfect not prepared for this kind of thing, but thrust into circumstances he's not prepared for... that's another niche of mine. Unpreparedness. Not knowing what to do. I'm good at being that guy.
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Hawaii has always been a very pivotal role in the Pacific. It is in the Pacific. It is a part of the United States that is an island that is right here.
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I was always interested in fashion and beauty. I was fifteen when I was scouted in a flea market. Two years later, I arrived in New York. I was in awe because it was like another planet.
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I feel very, very lucky that George has got a little sister.
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Creativity is an inherent human quality of the highest order. When we create, we become more than the sum of our parts.
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On occasion, I used to give presents to the kings, besides the hire that I gave to to their sons who accompany me; and nevertheless, they seized me with my companions.
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Things that appear on the front page of the newspaper as 'fact' are far more dangerous than the games played by a novelist, and can lead to wars.
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The only way anyone's going to succeed is to build the product.
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That's one of the great things about comedy: we can - and should - say the things that other people aren't supposed to say. If we didn't do that, if we didn't push against those limits, we'd just be standing around onstage and yelling.
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My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process.
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My musical career was an accident.
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One of the hardest tasks is to extract continually from one's soul an almost inexhaustible ill will.
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Stephen Hawking's been watching too many Hollywood movies. I think the only kind aliens in Hollywood are the ones created by Steven Spielberg - 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind' and 'E.T.,' for example. All other aliens are trying to suck our brains out.
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Acting is all about big hair and funny props... All the great actors knew it. Olivier knew it, Brando knew it.
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I was separated from my wife at the time. A lot of people think I wrote it about prison.
