Carlos Delgado (Carlos Juan Delgado Hernández) Quotes
If you hit, they're going to like you. If you don't hit, they're not going to like you.
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I don't have to worry about the obvious things like money.
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I don't really like to explain my songs.
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I really like performing for people.
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Well I love preppy style; I like J. Crew for guys.
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I grew up in different parts of Africa. I grew up in Mozambique and places like that. I've been in South Africa many times.
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I don't like getting out when I could be painting. And when I'm painting, I don't want anybody else around.
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I can swear like a fishwife.
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I feel like I'm supposed to be a shooter.
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I really believed that my songs were good enough for the whole world to listen to. I had fans from America or the U.K. who would be like, 'Oh my God, I love your music'.
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I like being involved with projects that are not only entertaining but are also thought provoking. Either that, or jobs that keep a roof over my head. A mixture of both is always nice.
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I didn't like the idea of being foolish, but I learned pretty soon that it was essential to fail and be foolish.
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If a person is treated like a patient, they are apt to act like one.
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I don't like laziness or cutting corners.
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There's a plaque on our wall that says we've sold over 65 million albums, and I don't feel I've accomplished anything. I feel like I'm just getting started.
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The world wants to like America.
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I couldn't be a royal. It's like living in a supersonic goldfish bowl.
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Whipping and abuse are like laudanum: you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline.
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I do not like carving the world into segments; we are one world.
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Like pictures, men should be judged by their merits and not by their defects.
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A lot of people have called me the black Bette Midler, and I regard that as a compliment.
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The people I go after are the false experts, those who do not accept the limits of their knowledge.
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I think having a great idea is vastly overrated. I know it sounds kind of crazy and counterintuitive. I don't think it matters what the idea is, almost. You need great execution.
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I have very specific advice for aspiring writers: go to New York. And if you can't go to New York, go to the place that represents New York to you, where the standards for writing are high, there are other people who share your dreams, and where you can talk, talk, talk about your interests.
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If you hit, they're going to like you. If you don't hit, they're not going to like you.
