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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• 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.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • World
  • Book
  • Together

• 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.

  

  Dana Spiotta
  • People
  • Life
  • Husband

• 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.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • Up
  • Business
  • American

• Bling is good.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Good

• 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.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Up
  • Sleep
  • Worry

• As an artist, you're always going to be yearning and wanting and never satisfied. I never feel like I've really achieved something.

  

  Parker Posey
  • You
  • Like
  • Artist

• I feel like people are funny, and women are people, so I'm sick of the distinction.

  

  Kate Flannery
  • People
  • Women
  • Funny

• The amount of culture going on in a small country like Israel is amazing.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Country
  • Culture
  • Small

• 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.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • People
  • Up
  • Like

• If you're really a rapper, you can't stop rapping.

  

  Ice T
  • You
  • Stop
  • Rapper

• 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.

  

  Ani DiFranco
  • Fall
  • Style
  • Road

• Come on in. The earth, like the sun, like the air, belongs to everyone - and to no one.

  

  Edward Abbey
  • Earth
  • Air
  • Sun

• 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.

  

  Clemence Poesy
  • Passion
  • Listening

• If I was money-motivated, I wouldn't have joined a rock band with three other Armenian guys.

  

  Daron Malakian System Of A Down
  • Money
  • Band
  • Rock

• There wasn't much around. After the shows, we would go to an Italian restaurant that a friend of ours owned and so I didn't get a chance to see much. Actually, that holds true of most places I've been.

  

  Connie Francis
  • True
  • Friend
  • Italian

• No matter what parents do, kids retain their uniqueness.

  

  Kirstie Alley
  • Kids
  • Parents

• Instituting equal pay is especially important because families in our country increasingly rely on women's wages to make ends meet. When women bring home less money each day, it means they have less for the everyday needs of their families - groceries, rent, child care, and doctors' visits.

  

  Jan Schakowsky
  • Important
  • Women
  • Country

• As a coach, the more experience you have, the more you're around players, it helps so you see how guys learn, ways that are effective to reach different people. You see the aftermath of all the things that happened; you don't just see what happens at the game, you see what happens after the game, the followthrough, and those types of things.

  

  J. B. Bickerstaff
  • People
  • Different
  • Experience

• I eat healthy and don't go by a diet chart. The breakfast is usually heavy, complemented with short frequent meals. My dinner is high on proteins and low on carbohydrates.

  

  Vijender Singh
  • High
  • Breakfast
  • Short

• When dad told me Mr Steptoe had passed away, I broke down.

  

  Louise Brown
  • Dad

• An essential part of seeing clearly is finding the willingness to look closely and to go beyond our own ideas.

  

  Cheri Huber
  • Ideas
  • Willingness

• People who have got to know Western educational methods always claim that the reading of the Classics was a useless waste of time and should be abolished. Such chatter is to be heard from hundreds of people and cannot be stopped. But it is a serious mistake.

  

  Zhang Zhidong
  • People
  • Time
  • Reading

• The characters created cannot just be a mouthpiece for the writer. When you look at a piece of writing, and it's genuine and it doesn't feel like every character is just a mouthpiece for the writer, but that they've been created in such a way that they're expressing an idea that a writer wants to get across, that's when a story succeeds.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Writing
  • Character
  • Feels

• 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.

  

  Carlos Delgado
  • Mistake
  • Smart
  • Succeed