Ricardo Montalban Quotes

Because we should always respect other nationalities, I have always tried to play them with dignity.

Ricardo Montalban

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• I was not so committed to financial success that I was willing to abandon my principles and priorities. One of the most visible examples of this is our decision to close on Sunday.

  

  S. Truett Cathy
  • Success
  • Decision
  • Financial

• God gave me a very good hand to play over my 88 years. I have no regrets.

  

  Ed Koch
  • Good
  • God
  • Me

• Being an actress wasn't a plan at all, so what's happened to me is very strange. Life isn't very normal, even though I'm still very much a normal girl. I ride the subway, I ride the bus, and all of that.

  

  Gabourey Sidibe
  • Life
  • Girl
  • Ride

• Everything about me is a contradiction, and so is everything about everybody else. We are made out of oppositions; we live between two poles. There's a philistine and an aesthete in all of us, and a murderer and a saint. You don't reconcile the poles. You just recognize them.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Me
  • Saint
  • Contradiction

• I grew up doing martial arts, and I'm a second-degree black belt.

  

  Laura Vandervoort
  • Up
  • Black
  • Doing

• Hope is a great falsifier. Let good judgment keep her in check.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • Good
  • Great
  • Hope

• However, I should perhaps add that during the 20 years I have been back in Cambridge, I have been actively involved in the teaching of undergraduates, as well as of course supervising research students.

  

  Aaron Klug
  • Years
  • Students
  • Research

• I spent a lot of time between bars like this.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Time
  • Like
  • Bars

• No one goes into the office for fun. You go, and even if you love it, you're there to work.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Work
  • Love
  • Fun

• The big turning point, really, was the Beatles' influence on American folk music, and then Roger took it to the next step, and then along came the Lovin' Spoonful and everybody else.

  

  Barry McGuire
  • Music
  • American
  • Influence

• My dad used to give me a lot of spankings. Anything I did wrong, he was on me. I was raised by a strict disciplinarian. He kind of laid down the law.

  

  Larry Fitzgerald
  • Law
  • Me
  • Dad

• Nothing is more unpleasant than a virtuous person with a mean mind.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • Mind
  • Mean
  • Nothing

• My observations of Japanese naval fighting men, their abilities and equipment led me to believe that they gave a better account of themselves than we did.

  

  Jack Adams
  • Believe
  • Men
  • Fighting

• I have always been an old-line Henry Clay Whig.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Always
  • Clay
  • Henry

• Congress has a responsibility to review research paid for by hard-working American taxpayers.

  

  Lamar S. Smith
  • American
  • Responsibility

• Slavery is founded in the selfishness of man's nature - opposition to it is his love of justice. These principles are an eternal antagonism; and when brought into collision so fiercely, as slavery extension brings them, shocks and throes and convulsions must ceaselessly follow.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Nature
  • Man
  • Justice

• I've always loved the old epics that tell a simple emotional story, whether it's the tumultuous relationship between Rhett and Scarlett or Lawrence of Arabia's passion to get lost in a faraway place.

  

  Baz Luhrmann
  • Relationship
  • Lost
  • Simple

• Despite the situation in Cuba, I had a chance to play on the national team; and compared to other baseball players and other people in Cuba, I had the opportunity to live at a level that was not very high class but in the middle.

  

  Yoenis Cespedes
  • People
  • Live
  • High

• I've been lucky enough to have fulfilled so many ambitions, and gone way past anything I ever thought I would do. I could never have imagined the career that I've had with the Foo Fighters - playing stadiums and having songs on the radio. It's amazing, and my goal is really just to carry on playing.

  

  Taylor Hawkins Foo Fighters
  • Career
  • Past
  • Amazing

• I'm pedantic about lip balm. I've been chomping through Lip Smackers since age 11. So the lip balm called Lips! is a personal favourite. I also really love the Properly Clean cleanser. Women are wearing primer, sunscreen and makeup, so a cleanser needs to work hard these days.

  

  Zoe Foster Blake
  • Work
  • Women
  • Personal

• I have no personal knowledge of, or experience with, paramilitary hate groups, or heart transplantation, or escapees from maximum security prisons, or what it's like to be profoundly deaf. But I've written about all these topics, and the books became bestsellers. I figure that if something interests me, there's a reasonably good chance that it's going to interest the reader, too. As I approach my keyboard each day, I remind myself to have a good time - as good a time as one can have doing the hardest work there is.

  

  Sandra Brown
  • Experience
  • Knowledge
  • Personal

• Hunches are not to be sneezed at.

  

  Richard Nelson Bolles
  • Hunches
  • Sneezed

• There is but one philosophy and its name is fortitude! To bear is to conquer our fate.

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • Philosophy
  • Fate
  • Fortitude

• Because we should always respect other nationalities, I have always tried to play them with dignity.

  

  Ricardo Montalban
  • Personal
  • Nationality
  • Respecting