Carlos Delgado (Carlos Juan Delgado Hernández) Quotes
You've got to be smart to stay in this game. The quicker you learn, the quicker you succeed. You can't make the same mistakes over and over again.
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Thought is an infection. In the case of certain thoughts, it becomes an epidemic.
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Competition on anything is good, because it makes everybody better.
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My dad was really complex, and I was raised by that. My mom is really bright - very book bright - and so those things collide... I learned that I could put all of that stuff together in the world of acting, and I could make a dollar at it.
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My husband is a musician. He cooks and he's a chef but he also, he makes basement recordings. So many people in my life make basement recordings, so I feel very lucky, I'm surrounded by very creative people.
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American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.
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Bling is good.
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If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep.
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My mother is Italian and my dad's Irish. In my family, we're expressive. Nobody holds back.
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As an artist, you're always going to be yearning and wanting and never satisfied. I never feel like I've really achieved something.
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I feel like people are funny, and women are people, so I'm sick of the distinction.
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The amount of culture going on in a small country like Israel is amazing.
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All my books are made up of other books. They're all deeply structured on other fiction, because I was a student in fiction and I didn't have much actual living to draw on. I suspect a lot of other people's novels are like that, too, though they might be slower to talk about it.
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If you're really a rapper, you can't stop rapping.
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Many of the most science-fictional tools to fight climate change are untested, are almost impossible to truly test at planetary scale - we only have one planet after all. We're better off cutting our emissions so we don't need them.
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Bradman is a whole class above any batsman who has ever lived: if Archimedes, Newton and Gauss remain in the Hobbs class, I have to admit the possibility of a class above them, which I find difficult to imagine. They had better be moved from now on into the Bradman class.
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So we're led by denial like lambs to the slaughterServing empires of style and carbonated sugar waterAnd the old farm road's a four-lane that leads to the mallAnd our dreams are all guillotines waiting to fall.
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Come on in. The earth, like the sun, like the air, belongs to everyone - and to no one.
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I'm always curious about anyone who has enough passion to go onstage and say, 'This is what I'm really passionate about.' It's always worth listening to.
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If I was money-motivated, I wouldn't have joined a rock band with three other Armenian guys.
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I went to a couple of Rangers games at the Garden, and someone at the NHL had seen me and figured I was a fan and decided to approach me about having a blog during the playoffs.
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You cannot paint the Mona Lisa by assigning one dab each to a thousand painters.
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I love working with smart people and being challenged. I also like working on stuff that's relevant. That's my adrenaline shot.
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The mistake that is made always runs the other way. Because the plain people are able to speak and understand, and even, in many cases, to read and write, it is assumed that they have ideas in their heads, and an appetite for more. This assumption is a folly.
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You've got to be smart to stay in this game. The quicker you learn, the quicker you succeed. You can't make the same mistakes over and over again.
