"I grew up in a community that was……" — Jon Secada
"I grew up in a community that was bilingual. I've done it for a while, singing in both languages."
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26 Quotes by Jon Secada
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A real active music set, based and really concentrated on what the music's all about. That's what I'm all about…
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And my career, the things that have happened have happened because of my music education background.
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For me, there's still a lot of room to grow; I'm just happy that I have so much more to…
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I grew up speaking both languages, and for me that's really important.
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Having a college degree gave me the opportunity to be... well-rounded. Also, the people I met at the university, most…
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I have a bachelor's and a master's in jazz.
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I just lived it and did my own thing without looking over my shoulder. I think I'm very lucky, considering…
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It happened in Miami, in Coral Gables, a great big ol' Cuban wedding. It was pretty intense.
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If you write songs and if you write music that's very sincere and very honest, it's pop music, but it…
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I might be a Cuban American, but I'm also an Afro-Cuban American.
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I was a teacher for a long time. I taught at a community college: voice, theory, humanities. And nowadays, music…
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If there was any other place I would live, other than Miami, it would be California. It's beautiful. The weather…
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More Bilingual Quotes
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one of 24 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Every black American is bilingual. All of them. We speak street vernacular and we speak 'job interview.'
— Dave Chappelle
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We should replace bilingual education with immersion in English so people learn the common language of the country and they…
— Newt Gingrich
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All good poets of the past, almost without exception, were at least bilingual if not trilingual.
— Helen Vendler
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After all, enforced national bilingualism in this country isn't mere policy. It has attained the status of a religion. It's…
— Stephen Harper
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The best translators slip into the glove of a text and then turn it inside out into another language, and…
— Alma Guillermoprieto
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Sarah Buckley is precious, because she is bilingual. She can speak the language of a mother who gave birth to…
— Michel Odent
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He speaks English, Spanish, and he's bilingual too.
— Don King
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The latter. She had a good run, Sook said, doing a little shrug. It was his usual response to death…
— Lisa Lutz
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The guru, if he is gifted, reads the story as any bilingual person might. He does not translate-he understands.
— Bill Vaughan
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Make no mistake. Canada is not a bilingual country. In fact it is less bilingual today than it has ever…
— Stephen Harper
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All hockey players are bilingual. They know English and profanity.
— Gordie Howe
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My father was the son of immigrants, and he grew up bilingual, but English is what my father taught me…
— Ernest Istook
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