Miguel Zenon Quotes
I grew up listening to Puerto Rican music like everybody else. But when I listened to Charlie Parker for the first time, I said, 'How does this guy play so fast?'
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Well football teams are perhaps easier to control than political parties, I'm sure the Prime Minister would agree with me, but yeah I think every team needs discipline and a sense of self-belief and that's important, that's what leadership's all about.
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To have been selected to represent Team South Africa at the London 2012 Olympic Games in the individual 400m and the 4x400m relay is a real honor and I am so pleased that years of hard work, determination and sacrifice have all come together.
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I grew up on Don Knotts and Jerry Lewis and all the guys from Second City.
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Beauty can make you powerful in a way that isn't good for you. Being OK is better for the person I have become.
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I spent my life studying communism and Soviet systems.
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One of the things we found out as we filmed with people who dealt with chimps, and with all animals, and it's really incredible, is their levels of intelligence that we don't recognize right away.
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I never thought of myself as a singer, like ever, ever, ever. It's hysterical that I sing.
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I've hosted the Soul Train awards, the American Music Awards... and I had my own talk show. So if I can't host by now, what the hell can I do?
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If I'm not doing anything, I get really antsy and bored.
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I lived with Ilana Glazer of 'Broad City.' She was my roommate for a year and a half. I was living with her just as she was creating and filming 'Broad City.' Both of us, and a lot of my friends, come from the Upright Citizens Brigade theater either in New York or L.A.
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Remorse is a violent dyspepsia of the mind.
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Microchimeric sharing means that, even if the mother loses a child, she'll have a small memento of him or her secreted away inside her. Similarly, a bit of our mothers live on in all of us no matter how long ago Mom died.
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A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
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Paradise Lost is a book that, once put down, is very hard to pick up again.
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I was in them million dollar meetings, he was cheatin. All up in the church, he was sneakin wit the deacon.
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I enjoy trying to develop a car and Mercedes are one of the biggest car manufacturers in the world.
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If everything seems to be the same and no distinctions are made, then we won't know what to protect. We won't know what to fight for.
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Nobody's free until everybody's free.
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I wrote a couple of songs that had gypsy references in them. The only reason it happened was because that's what was coming through and I liked the idea at that period of time. But that doesn't mean that it's a myth or that I'm a gypsy. It's gotten totally out of context.
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The man who prays grows, and the muscles of the soul swell from this whipcord to iron bands.
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I suspect I am like most people on the Internet in that I sign up for all sorts of sites and frequently use the same passwords.
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I grew up listening to Puerto Rican music like everybody else. But when I listened to Charlie Parker for the first time, I said, 'How does this guy play so fast?'
