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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Borderline embarrassing fact: I used to have a pseudo line when I was seven called Zizzy Fashion. I love clothing, and I would eventually like to design as well as act.
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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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I used the best technique that I knew to protect my files.
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When I was in college at Carnegie Mellon, I wanted to be a chemist. So I became one. I worked in a laboratory and went to graduate school at the University of Pittsburgh. Then I taught science at a private girls' school. I had three children and waited until all three were in school before I started writing.
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I grew up in a courtroom kind of like the one you saw in 'To Kill a Mockingbird' - big, big courtroom, sometimes it didn't even have air conditioning.
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Success is a completely abstract thing - it has no bearing on daily life, family matters, the matter of artistic creation, but it can affect grace, and if I lose that, I really have gained nothing from success.
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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.
