Jon Secada (Juan Francisco Secada Ramírez) Quotes

Well, I always wanted to be educated and be prepared.

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• When we were younger, we sang at the dinner table. We started doing two part harmony, then three part, and then we added back up tapes and instruments.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Up
  • Doing
  • Harmony

• And so there is no God but has been in the loins of past gods.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • God
  • Past
  • Gods

• Before my son was born, I use to tell people that I was looking forward to no longer being the star of my own movie; then Harry came along, and it was like, 'Whoa, I'm really not!'

  

  Jack Davenport
  • People
  • Movie
  • Star

• I think is very beneficial to relax yourself so that when you are doing it you are not staggering for lines and your concentration is not on what I am going to say - but the scene itself, the character that you are talking to.

  

  Dabney Coleman
  • Character
  • Yourself
  • Relax

• The line between life or death is determined by what we are willing to do.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Life
  • Death
  • Determined

• When people go through tragic circumstances, it's not that there is no love there, but it's so hard to deal with and sometimes the gap starts to happen.

  

  Maggie Q
  • People
  • Love
  • Sometimes

• Many people think fairy tales and retellings of fairy tales are only for children, but I'm not the only writer to take an old tale and retell it for a sophisticated adult audience.

  

  Kate Forsyth
  • People
  • Children
  • Think

• I did not want to go out at 5:30 in the morning with my stocking cap and my navy pea coat on and shoot lines and grades for the rest of my life.

  

  A. James Clark
  • Life
  • Morning
  • Rest

• I think we in the Alpha Band, which was a strange group anyway, weren't dealing with any of these issues. They sneaked up on us and took us over, before we know what was going on.

  

  T Bone Burnett
  • Up
  • Think
  • Know

• In Maryland, we have the unfortunate distinction of being the most gerrymandered state in the entire nation.

  

  Larry Hogan
  • Being
  • Nation
  • Unfortunate

• Sometimes I talk to religious people about my column or what I do, and I ask them to, you know, read 20 or 30 of them and then come tell me that the message at the heart of every column isn't, 'Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.' In every possible sense.

  

  Dan Savage
  • People
  • Heart
  • Me

• For the first five years of my life, things felt pretty good. A lot went wrong after that, family-wise.

  

  Damon Galgut
  • Life
  • Good
  • Family

• It's my view that any conservative who loves his country has to be extremely concerned.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • Country
  • View
  • Conservative

• Religious belief itself is an adaptation that has evolved because we're hard-wired to form tribalistic religions.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Religious
  • Belief
  • Form

• Our communities are being destroyed by racial tension - and we're too polite to talk about it.

  

  Randall L. Stephenson
  • Talk
  • Tension
  • Racial

• We may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us.

  

  O. Henry
  • May
  • Environmental
  • Weather

• I sincerely believe that if Bush and Cheney recognized the full humanity of other people's mothers around the world, they wouldn't commit the crimes they commit.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • People
  • World
  • Believe

• Democrats hate Democrats most of all.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Hate
  • Most
  • Democrats

• In the business world an executive knows something about everything, a technician knows everything about something and the switchboard operator knows everything.

  

  Harold Coffin
  • World
  • Business
  • Everything

• My mother taught me to drive using the 'Detroit Method,' where speed limits and traffic lights are taken as cute suggestions.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • Mother
  • Taken
  • Cute

• Perhaps the most significant event in the evolution of the liberated mind arrives with the realization that most people, even in their deepest convictions, are blind to most truths.

  

  Nathaniel Dean
  • People
  • Truths
  • Convictions

• I read that when cats are cuddling and kneading you, and you think it's cute, they're really just checking your vitals for weak spots.

  

  Kandyse McClure
  • Think
  • Cute
  • Cats

• I often had to pass over photographs because in a mass of animals invariably one would be wandering in the wrong direction, thereby disrupting the pattern I was trying to achieve. Today the ability to digitally alter this disruption is at hand.

  

  Art Wolfe
  • Trying
  • Today
  • Animal

• Well, I always wanted to be educated and be prepared.

  

  Jon Secada