Ricardo Montalban Quotes

I found enormous opposition to my religion. It's like if you want to strengthen your biceps, you lift heavy weight, as heavy as you can handle, and work your muscles against resistance until it grows strong. I had to do that with my religion.

Ricardo Montalban

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: mexican
  • Birth: November 25, 1920 - January 14, 2009

Topics

WorkReligionStrongYouLiftWant

We're all about pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps, et cetera - I think that's a harmful mythology, that the choices that we make and the things that we do in our lives are not connected to anything else. So I'd like to help to debunk that.

Jesmyn Ward

ChoicesThinkHelpConnectedUp

I believe that we are here for each other, not against each other. Everything comes from an understanding that you are a gift in my life - whoever you are, whatever our differences.

John Denver

LifeBelieveGiftMy LifeYou

Postmodernism surely requires an even greater grasp of symbolism, as it's increasingly an art of gesture alone.

Andrew Eldritch

AloneArtSymbolismGreaterGesture

Everyone has something unique to bring to this world. And if you understand that, if you cherish that, if you embrace who you are and then capture that with your clothes... then that is when fashion can make a powerful statement about who you are and what you are about.

Matt Czuchry

WorldFashionClothesYouPowerful

Without television and mass communication, that knowledge wouldn't exist. So I think it actually has the possibility of turning people into more understanding and more empathetic people.

John Warnock

CommunicationKnowledgePeopleThink

Having a Christian worldview shapes my decision-making with respect to all aspects of my life. I always respect people in public life who are principled, and those principles have to be connected to something. And my faith is what serves as the anchor and directs my actions.

John Thune

LifeFaithRespectPeopleMy Life

Kind 'Guardian' readers have been forwarding me round robin Christmas newsletters for years now: lengthy missives full of perfect children, exotic holidays, talented pets and endless, tedious detail. The notes that accompanied them revealed they had inspired in the original recipients everything from mild irritation to absolute rage.

Simon Hoggart

ChildrenMeDetailHolidaysPerfect

What I am best at is reading a book and then writing a critical essay.

Rivers Cuomo

BestI AmWritingBookReadingThen

I mainly cook British food with a few things I've had on my holidays. I went to the Canary Islands a few years ago, and we had all sorts of different mushrooms on brioche with pancetta on top, and it was delicious. I had it most days for lunch, so I thought, 'I'll do that when I get back,' and now it's in my cookbook, an absolute favourite.

Mary Berry

FoodLunchThoughtHolidaysBack

I think sometimes I write to impress my influences. Whether they're actually acquaintances of mine, people that I think will hear the record or not, I still write - not to imitate my influences - but to write something that would live up to their standards.

Jason Isbell

LivePeopleThinkSometimesImpress

Well, I can't remember not being able to read. I was told I could read by myself very well at the age of three.

Diana Gabaldon

AgeMyselfRememberThreeWellAble

I'd like to get a degree. You ever see the movie 'Back to School?' I'll go back with my kids.

Derek Jeter

SchoolYouBackGoSeeDegree

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