Carlos Delgado (Carlos Juan Delgado Hernández) Quotes

I'm a baseball player, I'm not a political activist.

Carlos Delgado

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• I love when actors can let go of where and how they have to do it, and just that we do it. That we are flawed and human, and don't worry about how we look or who we are, or that it seems too old of a character if we're still young.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Love
  • Character
  • Worry

• Our best thoughts come from others.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Best
  • Thoughts
  • Come

• The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • More
  • Fortune
  • Pity

• I am no fashion diva - I grew up on the beaches in South Africa and am a nature girl that spends a lot of time outdoors. Fashion speaks to me through an occasion.

  

  Tanit Phoenix
  • Up
  • Time
  • Nature

• You know, we have to take these characters - who, granted, have their separate personalities but, on a lot of levels, are pretty two-dimensional - and make them into people with flaws, with insecurities.

  

  Rachael Leigh Cook
  • People
  • Pretty
  • You

• The price of crude oil accounts for 55 percent of the price of a gallon of gasoline, driven by global supply and demand. The United States depends on foreign sources of oil for 62 percent of our nation's supply. By 2010, this is projected to jump to 75 percent.

  

  Gary Miller Bad Brains
  • Jump
  • Nation
  • Oil

• Controversial means somebody who makes people think. And if you are afraid of people who will be against you, you might as well stay home and do nothing.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • People
  • Home
  • Think

• The thing about being in America is when you are driving with the sun on your back, there's hip hop. I never used to be into hip hop, but there's hip hop in the food, soul food, there's hip hop in the cars.

  

  Vanessa Brown
  • America
  • Soul
  • Food

• I've always written about social concerns. My first book was about Spanish Harlem.

  

  Dan Wakefield
  • Book
  • Always
  • First

• Who is a terrorist? Is it not the person who has been persecuting human beings simply because they are black?

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • Black
  • Person
  • Human

• I'm proud of the fact that I stood up early and unequivocally in opposition to Bush's foreign policy. That opposition hasn't changed.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Up
  • Proud

• In ancient times and in our times, Muslim communities have been at the forefront of innovation and education.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Education
  • Innovation

• These inventors were elevating the formulation of entrepreneurial ideas to the status of a visionary activity. Though forced to justify their efforts in the pragmatic language of venture capital, they were at heart utopian thinkers intent on transforming the world.

  

  Alain de Botton
  • World
  • Heart

• I really only ever go on sun holidays so in my experience I prepare myself for the beach.

  

  Lisa Snowdon
  • Experience
  • Sun
  • Beach

• When the mood takes me, I like to be a man of action. I like to windsurf and ski, and most of all I love to ride horses. The wilder and faster the better!

  

  Andrea Bocelli
  • Action
  • Mood

• I'll confess right here that I secretly wish I'd have drawn a strip about a little boy with a fake tiger, going for adventures throughout the universe in spaceships of his imagination.

  

  Berkeley Breathed
  • Wish
  • Universe
  • Imagination

• That's how you get surprises, because what movies are all about is surprises.

  

  Peter Bart

• Bailing on a company is just something you don't do.

  

  Peter Fenton Siouxsie and the Banshees

• In terms of addressing crime issues in the black community, the dominant political class has historically refused to endorse the full slate of reforms along lines of education, economic security, housing, etc, necessary to address the root causes.

  

  James Forman, Jr.
  • Political
  • Black
  • Education

• The object of art - like every other product - creates a public which is sensitive to art and enjoys beauty.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Art

• My kids have a great dad. I don't really want them to have a stepfather, and I don't think they do, either.

  

  Jane Kaczmarek
  • Great
  • Kids
  • Dad

• A diplomatic solution that puts significant and verifiable constraints on Iran's nuclear program represents the best and most sustainable chance to ensure that America, Israel, the entire Middle East will never be menaced by a nuclear-armed Iran.

  

  Joe Biden
  • America

• The main issue was deciding what to play: Should it be old Ramones material or new material? I had about three albums worth of new material, but I knew that people would rather hear the Ramones songs.

  

  Douglas Glenn Colvin Ramones
  • People

• I'm a baseball player, I'm not a political activist.

  

  Carlos Delgado
  • Political
  • Player
  • Baseball