Compay Segundo Quotes
I'm still strong and in the best shape to continue living my life.
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People that are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.
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I think I began to like writing a lot more, and to be a better writer, when I did it for a while alone. It made me a little more confident about my style.
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I've made a decision and now I must face the consequences.
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You know something, if you're not acting, you're not an actor - you've gotta work. No way around it.
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What makes me really happy is a walk in the English countryside. A nice sunset, that British countryside - it means I'm home.
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The really wonderful thing that happened to me when I was in space was this feeling of belonging to the entire universe.
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I think black Americans expect too much from individual black Americans in terms of changing the status quo.
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Business is war! Its leaders are strategic commanders, who boldly snatch victory from the jaws of defeat - and who perform other acts of derring-do. This kind of talk sounds great in the boardroom, and, for that matter, in the bookstore, where dozens of authors counsel would-be corporate warriors.
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Vegetarians in general don't like me.
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I was very close to my mother, and her death, which left a gaping hole in my life, has been very difficult for me and my father in a lot of ways.
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I am the middle child with an older and younger brother.
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For some, being involved in a scene is a great thing because the social element can drive creativity. For me, though, it's never really been like that. It's the opposite. I've always had this instinct to escape.
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It would be curious to discover who it is to whom one writes in a diary. Possibly to some mysterious personification of one's own identity.
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The importance of poetry is not measured, finally, by what the poet says but by how he says it.
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I can see quite clearly that if there was a single event that launched me on the road to ultimate involvement at the heart of South African politics, it was an assault on an African woman by her white employer in a kitchen in Fort Hare.
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What ObamaCare did was take some of the things we did for the poor and expanded the government to basically the whole marketplace.
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If I'm not doing anything, I get really antsy and bored.
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I used to be six foot four. Now that I'm old, I slouch. So, I'm six foot three.
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When you have a song on the radio your career and your life changes maybe for the better and maybe for the not so good depending on how it's going that day.
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Paradoxically, life is worth living for those who have something for which they will gladly give up life.
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I may think I have inalienable rights to be alive and happy but I don't - life is a blessing.
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The one great thing about a continuing collaboration is that they know you. And if you're really lucky, they really believe in you and think that your talent has some unending bounds to it.
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I cannot say whether in the middle of December we will or will not reach a deal, but it certainly will not be for want of trying.
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I'm still strong and in the best shape to continue living my life.
