Compay Segundo Quotes

Young people don't want to be second to anyone. Everyone wants to be an overnight star. Look how many years I had to wait, how many roads I had to travel, how many songs I had to sing. And now I'm just beginning, never ending.

Compay Segundo

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: musician
  • Nationality: cuban
  • Birth: November 18, 1907 - July 13, 2003

Topics

RoadsBeginningTravelPeopleWait

I like to be in the now, now. Sometimes musicians have to wait for me to be genuine with it. As an actor, I don't have that luxury. You have to make it legit when they say 'action.'

Jill Scott

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There are only individual people, different individual people, with their own individual lives. Using one of these people for the benefit of others uses him and benefits the others. Nothing more. What happens is that something is done to him for the sake of others. Talk of an overall social good covers this up.

Robert Nozick

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You got to keep your feet on the ground, and it is what it is.

Max Holloway

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I want to play the Green Lantern. I'd love to do a comic book hero. Go to the gym, get all buff, puff up. That would be a lot of fun.

Matthew Settle

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Pretty much, Apple and Dell are the only ones in this industry making money. They make it by being Wal-Mart. We make it by innovation.

Steve Jobs

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Show me an elitist, and I'll show you a loser.

Tom Clancy

MeLoserYouShowElitist

'Roc' was sort of an experiment because none of the lead actors on our show had any real television experience, especially in half-hour TV.

Rocky Carroll

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The Muslim world is threatened by religious fanaticism. The Western world is threatened by secular fanaticism.

Dennis Prager

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42 is a really boring age, isn't it?

Cillian Murphy

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By dimension, we simply mean an independent direction in which, in principle, you can move; in which motion can take place. In an everyday world, we have left-right as one dimension; we have back-forth as a second one; and we have up-down as a third.

Brian Greene

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I do not feel I have a legacy to protect.

Bret Easton Ellis

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Life is not quantifiable in terms of age, but I suppose in my fifties I am more grounded and more at ease in my own skin than when I was younger. I have a confidence that I didn't have before from the experiences I've had.

Annie Lennox

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