J. R. Ramirez Quotes

I'm Cuban, so I know for a fact that we are the largest minority group in this country.

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• The Cold War did end in the victory of one side and in the defeat of the other. This reality cannot be denied, despite the understandable sensitivities that such a conclusion provokes among the tenderhearted in the West and some of the former leaders of the defeated side.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • War
  • Reality
  • End

• I hated singing. I wanted to be an actress. But I don't think I'd have made it any other way.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Think
  • Way
  • Singing

• I'm an artist at heart.

  

  Lance Reddick
  • Heart
  • Artist

• I can never really remember what I look like. I'm just sort of neutral. I don't think I'm sort of, you know, hideous.

  

  Sam Neill
  • Remember
  • Think
  • Look

• You can talk about and think about Muslims as you want, but you can't stop Muslims from building a mosque. You can hate Muslims from the comfort of your house or publicly, but when that becomes stopping Muslims from building a mosque or worshipping, then we are crossing the line into something else.

  

  Aasif Mandvi
  • Think
  • House
  • Hate

• You wouldn't recognize me from one project to the next.

  

  Rachael Leigh Cook
  • Me
  • Next
  • Project

• While I was busy hating Vegas, and hiding from Vegas, a funny thing happened. I grew to love Vegas.

  

  J. R. Moehringer
  • Love
  • Funny
  • Busy

• I think when I first started cycling, it wasn't that popular with kids. I felt almost embarrassed going down the road on my road bike; I didn't want my friends to see me because it was embarrassing.

  

  Laura Trott
  • Kids
  • Friends
  • Road

• Designers have told me that their collections are so me, but I don't always recognise it because if you ask me what my style is, I'm really not that sure.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Me
  • Style
  • Always

• By constant contemplation of excellence, we clear our selfhood of all dross and impurities.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Excellence
  • Contemplation

• I have me. I have God. I have my son. Everything else is extra.

  

  Karrine Steffans
  • God
  • Me
  • Son

• I've been on sets my whole life.

  

  Jack Quaid
  • Life
  • Been
  • Sets

• Whoever comes to me finds me a mirror to whatever is in his heart. Thus, I try to help him to see qualities in himself that he needs to overcome.

  

  Paramahansa Yogananda
  • Heart
  • Help
  • Mirror

• Instead of asking God to remove our problems so that our lives might be happy, we must purposefully try to learn as much as we can - and thereby become happier due to our insights and growth.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • God
  • Happy
  • Growth

• While I did not get any formal training in acting, every summer vacation, from the age of five, my father would take me to Ooty with him, and I would do films as a child star. I did over 10 films like that, and it was understood that post finishing my education, I would become an actor.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Age
  • Father
  • Education

• But, in North Korea, it's just the opposite. There's one story. It's written by the Kim regime. And 23 million people are conscripted to be secondary characters. There, as a youth, your aptitude towards certain jobs is measured, and the rest of your life is dictated, whether you'll be a fisherman or a farmer or an opera singer.

  

  Adam Johnson
  • People
  • Life
  • Rest

• Now at 47, 48 I am expected to do ten times better work that I did when I was 24.

  

  Salman Khan
  • Work
  • Better

• I'm a big Hall and Oates fan.

  

  Nate Parker
  • Fan
  • Big
  • Hall

• I love opera, I love writing for the voice, I love telling stories with music.

  

  Anthony Daviss
  • Music
  • Writing

• The funny thing is, though I write mysteries, it is the one genre in adult fiction I never read. I read Nancy Drew, of course, when I was a kid, but I think the real appeal is as a writer because I'm drawn to puzzly, complicated plots.

  

  Elise Broach
  • Real
  • Funny

• One can imagine the look the two lovers exchanged; it was like a flame, for virtuous lovers have not a shred of hypocrisy.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Imagine
  • Lovers
  • Hypocrisy

• Hold loosely to the things of this life, so that if God requires them of you, it will be easy to let them go.

  

  Corrie Ten Boom
  • Life
  • God
  • Requires

• Man is essentially a rational being. His basic urge is not to believe, but to question, to know.

  

  M. N. Roy
  • Man
  • Rational
  • Basic

• I'm Cuban, so I know for a fact that we are the largest minority group in this country.

  

  J. R. Ramirez
  • Country