Jon Secada (Juan Francisco Secada Ramírez) Quotes

I have a bachelor's and a master's in jazz.

Jon Secada

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• We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • God
  • High
  • Dark

• I could never say Rza's trash. But he didn't come with the right formula on '8 Diagrams.' I think 'Cuban Linx 2' will have the Clan back where they need to be, but then it's up for the Clan to be back where they need to be, too. 'Cos it ain't just the album, you know what I mean? It's everything.

  

  Raekwon
  • Up
  • Think
  • Know

• His style has the desperate jauntiness of an orchestra fiddling away for dear life on a sinking ship.

  

  Edmund Wilson
  • Life
  • Style
  • Ship

• One of the biggest problems with the modern feminist movement is its failure to bring men along with us.

  

  Tammy Bruce
  • Men
  • Failure
  • Problems

• I famously had a huge television producer say to me one time, 'Can you please stop doing that to your face? It's very distracting and unattractive.' And I was like, 'You mean move it? Okay, sorry, I guess we're not going to work together.'

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Time
  • Work
  • Together

• I don't fear anyone. We don't come to play in this sport.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Fear
  • Play
  • Come

• O what is life, if we must hold it thus as wind-blown sparks hold momentary fire?

  

  Ada Cambridge
  • Life
  • Fire
  • Wind

• A lot of people think I had such a rosy career, but I wanted to identify that one of the things that helps you have a long career is learning how to deal with adversity, how to get past it. Once I learned how to get through that, others things didn't seem so hard.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
  • People
  • Long
  • Career

• For me, it's not necessarily interesting to play a strong, fearless woman. It's interesting to play a woman who is terrified and then overcomes that fear. It's about the journey. Courage is not the absence of fear, it's overcoming it.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Strong
  • Fear
  • Interesting

• Have common sense and stick to the point.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Sense
  • Common
  • Common Sense

• Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.

  

  Salvador Dali
  • Vision
  • Only
  • Surrealism

• Most of the Ten Commandments are negative. The purpose of law is not to mandate good behavior. That concept comes from the French Revolution.

  

  Randall Terry
  • Good
  • Law
  • Purpose

• When Hegel later became a man of influence' he insisted that the Jews should be granted equal rights because civic rights belong to man because he is a man and not on account of his ethnic origins or his religion.

  

  Walter Kaufmann
  • Man
  • Religion
  • Influence

• Money talks. It starts rumors about careers and complicity and speaks of the tragedies and triumphs of our social lives.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • Money
  • Social
  • Rumors

• I'm a novelist - not an expert on coal mining. I'm not a politician with an agenda to push. I'm not a reporter presenting facts, and I'm not a sociologist documenting the last struggling remnants of blue-collar America. I'm simply an author who sets her books in coal country because it's where I come from, and it's what I know.

  

  Tawni O'Dell
  • Country
  • America
  • Know

• Because of the changes in the Padres team I played with last year, I felt like a veteran recently when I worked out with Jason Kendall and he told me he's liked listening to my records since he was a kid!

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Team
  • Listening
  • Year

• All histories do shew, and wise politicians do hold it necessary that, for the well-governing of every Commonweal, it behoveth man to presuppose that all men are evil, and will declare themselves so to be when occasion is offered.

  

  Walter Raleigh
  • Men
  • Evil
  • Wise

• ‘Do you know,’ said a thoughtful Bean, ‘I’ll bet that if all the girls Freddie Widgeon has loved were placed end to end-not that I suppose one could do it-they would reach half-way down Piccadilly.’‘Further than that,’ said the Egg. ‘Some of them were pretty tall.’

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Pretty
  • Thoughtful

• If the audience walks out of a concert thinking, What a wonderful experience, then we have done our job.

  

  Emanuel Ax
  • Thinking
  • Done
  • Experience

• Let's face it, a nice creamy chocolate cake does a lot for a lot of people; it does for me.

  

  Audrey Hepburn
  • People
  • Face
  • Chocolate Cake

• It is not that things happen to each of us according to his fate, but that he interprets what has happened, if he has power to do so, according to his sense of his own destiny.

  

  Cesare Pavese
  • Things
  • Fate
  • Happen

• Paris 1933 - 1944 with its wonderful (intense soft) light had relaxed my palette - there were other colors, other entirely new forms, and some that I had used years earlier. Naturally I did all this unconsciously.

  

  Wassily Kandinsky
  • Light
  • Paris

• Obama raises human rights in Vietnam, calls for 'peaceful resolution' of South China Sea disputes, CNN (24 May 2016)

  

  Barack Obama
  • May
  • Sea

• I have a bachelor's and a master's in jazz.

  

  Jon Secada