Lionel Sosa Quotes

We talk about what's important to Hispanics: education, family, creating an environment in which you can achieve what you want to achieve because there aren't going to be obstacles in your way.

Lionel Sosa

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• Tell me what you'd like to hear me sing. I'll sing whatever you like, after which I'll take up a collection, if you don't mind.

  

  Edith Piaf
  • Mind
  • Tell
  • Whatever

• I sometimes try to think of my life as an Iranian, and it is hard to imagine. I am grateful for the life I have had in America and all the amazing opportunities and experiences it has given me. But there is a spirit in Iranians I can see that is unbounded by geography.

  

  Pardis Sabeti
  • Life
  • America
  • Spirit

• People see me now and ask if I'm still running. I may look like I am, but I'm really not. People think I still run every day but I ran for 25 years and I deserve to not do anything but walk or ride the bike with my kids.

  Gail Devers
  • People
  • Kids
  • Running

• What you need is one black dress I call Plan B. It doesn't have to be fabulous, it just looks good, covers up the problems and is neutral enough for dinner, business, a date, a funeral. You don't overwear it, you don't overwash it, because the Plan B is - gold.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Up
  • Good
  • Business

• We are more casual about qualifying the people we allow to act as advocates in the courtroom than we are about licensing electricians.

  

  Warren E. Burger
  • People
  • More
  • Act

• I've done some music for films and I really enjoy doing it.

  

  Ikue Mori
  • Music
  • Done
  • Enjoy

• I hope somebody hits .400 soon. Then people can start pestering that guy with questions about the last guy to hit .400.

  

  Ted Williams
  • People
  • Hope
  • Guy

• It's like the brooding hen sitting over a china egg.

  

  Navjot Singh Sidhu
  • Like
  • China
  • Egg

• Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Girl
  • You
  • Waiting

• Once you've built the big machinery of political power, remember you won't always be the one to run it.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Power
  • Remember
  • Political

• I still think of myself really as a New Yorker.

  

  Parker Stevenson
  • Think
  • Myself
  • New

• I am very interested in what has been called bad taste. I believe the fear of displaying a soi-disant bad taste stops us from venturing into special cultural zones.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Taste
  • Cultural
  • Zones

• You lose the speed before the stamina.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • You
  • Lose
  • Speed

• The end is in the beginning and lies far ahead.

  

  Ralph Ellison
  • Beginning
  • Lies
  • End

• The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.

  

  Daniel Defoe
  • Soul
  • Body
  • Diamond

• It would be a sad story to get rid of religious belief, national identity, family, and even sexual identity. That's not freedom.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Family
  • Freedom
  • Religious

• I never listened to the Grateful Dead as a teen; the only exposure I got was what came through the walls when my sister was listening to them.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Listening
  • Sister
  • Grateful

• Some movies to me are like vampires – they suck all of the energy out of me and I don't like that. I like to give the audience energy if I can.

  

  Sam Raimi
  • Energy
  • Me
  • Audience

• I watched some serious '80s television. 'Alice,' 'Good Times,' 'The Jeffersons,' 'Family Ties,' 'Cheers'... every night it was eat dinner, watch 'Cheers.' I was actually on 'Jeopardy' with Rebecca Lobo and Dot Richardson, and we were laughing because I was just nailing every random '80s trivia question - sitcom, theme music, movie, you name it.

  

  Summer Sanders
  • Good
  • Music
  • Family

• I'm raising my family in The Church, and I'm proud of that.

  

  Brandon Flowers The Killers
  • Family
  • Church
  • Raising

• Set the cart before the hors.

  

  John Heywood

• ῥῆμα δ᾽ ἑργμάτων χρονιώτερον βιοτεύει

  

  Pindar

• I like to play with words and the sounds of words - that's extremely important to me.

  

  Bobbie Ann Mason
  • Important
  • Words

• We talk about what's important to Hispanics: education, family, creating an environment in which you can achieve what you want to achieve because there aren't going to be obstacles in your way.

  

  Lionel Sosa
  • Important
  • Family
  • Education