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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I am so lazy and sometimes will go as late as 9 A.M. to shoot.
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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 don't think of my life as a cliche, but I'm a cliche eccentric. Complete with a strange name - I mean, who's named Val? How many Vals do you know? I mean, really?
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I was in a hardcore band that had no melody, no chance of finding any success, and I was just trying to figure out what the hell I was going to do with my life. And that came out and changed my life forever - on an artistic level, and a lyrical level, for sure.
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My family's very, very mixed. I am, I guess, a kind of melting pot in a person.
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I'm not a workaholic, but I was a bit manic, I have to confess.
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I sometimes ponder on variation form and it seems to me it ought to be more restrained, purer.
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I'm still strong and in the best shape to continue living my life.
