Compay Segundo Quotes

In order to grow old, you have to experience everything, but in moderation.

Compay Segundo

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

ExperienceGrowYouOldEverything

Some nights it was a melee, literally, where I'd be standing trying to defend myself for what I was doing. People would be screaming at me to do my old act, and getting actually violent and angry at me.

Jim Carrey

MyselfAngryPeopleMeDoingTrying

A revolution in itself is not a blessing. The revolution accomplished by the French people is, indeed, a wonderful event - the most striking, in my opinion, in history; but it may lead to events which will make it a mighty evil.

John C. Calhoun

HistoryBlessingPeopleEvilOpinion

I think 1973 was the nadir of fashion. When you watch the coverage from that era, you're struck by the astonishing ugliness of the clothes.

John Malkovich

FashionThinkClothesYouWatchEra

The power of makeup is incredible, but the power of you is cray cray.

Anna Akana

PowerMakeupYouIncredible

It's self-centered to think that human beings, as limited as we are, can describe divinity.

John Templeton

ThinkHumanSelf-CenteredDivinity

In 2002, a year after 9-11, as a Congressman, I was banned from the White House by Karl Rove because I told the 'Washington Times' that if there is another terrorist attack on our homeland and we have done nothing more than Bush has done to date, 'Bush will have blood on his hands.'

Tom Tancredo

HandsYearHouseWhiteDoneNothing

You must recognize that the way to get the good out of your brother and your sister is not to return evil for evil.

Louis Farrakhan

GoodBrotherSisterEvilYouWay

What you hear mostly people gripe about adaptations is, 'They took out this scene,' or, 'They had to condense these characters.' I understand why they have to do that. But if you had a favorite character, and now they've been melded together with another one, it's disappointing.

Jay Asher

CharacterTogetherPeopleYouWhy

Ironically, the more intensive and far-reaching a historian's research, the greater the difficulty of citation. As the mountain of material grows, so does the possibility of error.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

MountainResearchMoreErrorGreater

I'm really excited to be a part of it and sharing the legacy, any documentary I look up at the sky and Kevin Burns did and Bryan did and showed me again you know the history that's in this character and you know.

Brandon Routh

CharacterHistorySkyMeLegacyYou

When 'Friday Night Lights' finished, I cried for a day. I have a problem.

Bojana Novakovic

DayNightFridayProblemLights

I just don't want to stop finding things interesting. I don't want to ever stop learning. I want to be a weird encyclopedia of bizarre knowledge.

Brie Larson

LearningKnowledgeWeirdInteresting

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