Compay Segundo Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
The contributions of African Americans, Native Americans, and immigrants throughout our nation's history are undeniable, but the tendency to overlook their gallant efforts is pervasive and persistent.
-
I'm kind of obsessed with cool girls.
-
At first my publisher had reservations about publishing it in the form you are familiar with.
-
I believe in peace. I believe in mercy.
-
I won't join another band again.
-
Children should neither be seen or heard from - ever again.
-
The great thing about a culture of givers is that's not a delusion - it's reality.
-
I don't like baseball movies. I like movies about moral courage and people who are indomitable and courageous and right.
-
It is a debt we owe to the purity of our religion to show that it is at variance with that law which warrants slavery.
-
I love basketball.
-
No account of the Renaissance can be complete without some notice of the attempt made by certain Italian scholars of the fifteenth century to reconcile Christianity with the religion of ancient Greece.
-
The most annoying and full-of-crap thing a writer says is, 'I write only for myself, I don't care if anyone reads it.' A writer without a reader doesn't exist.
-
I really like to experiment. That's the only way I can work. It's instinctive.
-
When you're bad in the NBA, you're in the lottery. When you're great in college, you get multiple lottery picks.
-
I'm a black Catholic raised in Decatur, Georgia, which was very gang-infested. Then, I went to an all-white private high school and excelled in sports and wrote poetry, then played football at the University of Georgia, minoring in drama.
-
The Greek city-states politicised citizen and subject, creating institutions that were way ahead of anything in China or India. The politicians of antiquity exercised a political and military, if not economic, hegemony on the culture as a whole. The idea of democracy was first born and practised here.
-
I definitely would not do a reality show.
-
When I started as a child actor, my father didn't tell me anything.
-
We all need a story. It just turns out that the story we have been told for years - that people are naturally and primarily competitive and self-interested and that life is best shaped around that bleak fact - is bunkum.
-
Even without mandatory sentences, judges are still capable of levying tough penalties for serious offenses - and just as in states like Texas that have 'tough on crime' reputations, this can be done without jeopardizing public safety.
-
My philosophy is generally to keep things as simple as possible.
-
I never thought I would work in mainstream superhero comics or Valiant or Marvel. I just set out to make the kinds of stories I wanted to make, which at the beginning was small personal stuff like 'Essex County.'
-
The biggest in the world is small in its beginning.
-
I am still simple, just as if I were beginning.
