"Ry Cooder for me is a master, a great master that has a wonderful feel for Cuban music. He's also paid tribute my talent a bit, even though I don't know half of what he knows."

-- Compay Segundo

#Half Quotes #Talent Quotes #Wonderful Quotes

“I think that generally New Zealand is respected for the positions it takes because it thinks them through.”
“I'm ensuring my place in heaven.”
“I'd like to live in a world where immigration is just called moving.”
“Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.”
“If you ask [my brother Frank Shamrock], I smoke crack, I do ***** and I cut myself (to get out of the Kimbo Slice fight). I mean you name it, I've done it -- just ask him.”
“It gets better. It gets so much easier to be in your skin no matter what size that skin is. If you do something that you're good at and that makes you happy, that's the best outlet that I could ever suggest to anybody....if you are able to just enjoy who you are, and if you can learn to love who you are, then you'll just be a much happier person.”

Source : "The secret diary of Claire Danes" by Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. April 1, 2011.
“TV tends to look for the living equivalents of squeaky-clean Kens and Barbies, but with my dial I'm more like Ken's dirty old uncle.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Charity is not a potency of the soul, because if it were it would be natural. Nor is it a passion, because it is not in a sensitive potency in which are all passions. Nor is it a habit, because a habit is removed with difficulty; charity, however, is easily lost through one act of mortal sin. Therefore charity is not something created in the soul.”

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