Top 661 Quotes & Sayings by Puerto Rican Authors - Page 2

When I was a child, I was very shy and insecure. My mother was very over protective of me. I was a dreamer.

Honestly, I always believed in myself. For real, for real.

When you want something so bad and when something great happens, I think it's instinct that you say, 'This is gonna be the moment that's gonna change everything. Everybody is gonna see me a different way.'

I have stamina, and I have energy.

Thank god 'Real' was successful, but I feel like 'Emmanuel' will be even more successful. All my ideas, I could put them to work myself, on my own time. I had more control, and it shows.

I wasn't ready for the majors when I joined the Pirates in 1955. I was too young and didn't know my way around.

In my player, I have a Luis Miguel CD as well as a Brian McKnight CD. I'm known for my very romantic ballads as well as the fun, up-tempo pop songs.

Money does not change people, people change.

In the '90s, I think that Bill Clinton would have won in Puerto Rico. I think in the 2000s, George Bush would have won in Puerto Rico.

I love it and it is a blessing to be able to have seventy-five to eighty episodes to develop a character and find your voice. You have a similar through voice, and yet you are making different decisions, and so you act differently and you make different choices, as that is what your character would do.

Wisin Y Yandel are legends. They're very smart and really humble.

I am 100% proud Puerto Rican but have lived two-thirds of my life in the United States. So, there will be some things I write in English, but my main way of conversing with my audience is in Spanish because, at the end of the day, I'm a Latino.

Music changes constantly, especially when you're a 'pop' artist. What's mainstream or pop always has new influences, new sounds, and I love that challenge of keeping up with it, which is important as a pop artist.

I don't just record to record.

It's kind of heartbreaking when I talk about it now, I still get very moved by the lack of opportunities that were available to myself and to the very few others who were Hispanic young actresses.

I grew up in a rural area called Vega Baja and I'm the first of so many talented people in this area to make it out. I take great pride to represent where I come from and I am able to show my fans, and everyone who listens and watches me, that anything is possible.

When you dare me to do something, I will say, 'Watch me'. That is what I say to critics. 'Watch me'.

You take a plug and put it in a socket, and that's what the theatre is-it lights up right away. You speak, and they respond immediately.

I was always being athletic, climbing trees and running after boys, just being trouble. It was always in me.

When I made 'Real,' I recorded it over the phone in prison. I did it in a week. I had no idea what it was going to sound like. I couldn't even listen to the masters before it came out, I couldn't listen to 90% of the beats. I recorded 21 songs in seven days.

I would like to be remembered as a boxer who tried to do his best.

I own thousands of capes and suits that are a fashion designer's dream. They will eventually be displayed in a museum. The colors, styles, outfits, boots, and brooches of my wardrobe were representative of the signs of the zodiac.

I sang in a group for four years, and you just kind of get used to it. You don't really think about being by yourself.

I love someone who can make me laugh. And someone who's secure - I think that's sexy.

I like to listen to other songs to get a different point of view and to learn.

When I was in my teens and into my early 20s, I had acne. I used to get those big purple jobs, but not a lot of them, thank goodness, because you really couldn't see them in the films that I did.

My first American experience was in the harbor of New York City when I saw that amazing big, tall lady. I remember thinking, 'Oh my goodness, a lady runs this country.'

Broadband, wireless, and technology services have become a vibrant sector of our national economy with the potential to both empower and invest in our communities.

Always be your husband's best friend, make him laugh and give him a little bit of freedom - you can't suffocate him.

There were screaming girls, I had to learn as a blind person how to run to a limousine otherwise they'd take my clothes off and stuff. I thought to myself 'how could this happen?' I mean I could see it, Frank Sinatra, Elvis Presley, The Beatles, but Jose Feliciano? It was a mystery to me.

Everybody has their cliques, and I was very shy. I'm still very shy. Music opened up doors. I would get to my choir class, and I was sort of one of the better kids... I could read music. That's when I realized how good El Coro de San Juan was. I felt, for once, like, hey, I can fit in.

My father was a musician, a songwriter and he played at bars and restaurants and my mom was a secretary for an insurance company.

My style of singing is very much Latin jazz meets Latin and a little bit of rhythm and blues. When I do ballads, my fans love it. They want to listen to my classics. They want to party.

Some people wanted me deported - as if you can be deported to Puerto Rico.

Part of an actor's job, in my opinion, is adjust to the characteristics of the director and try to understand to how he tries to work.

My eyes were bad. I stuttered. I had hepatitis, double pneumonia, even anemia. When I was 7, my family took me on a trip to Cuba, and all my ailments disappeared. Cuba gave me health, so I've been deeply attached to Cubans ever since.

You know how when people lose their grandma or grandpa, people they say they're sorry? They do mean it, but... there's nothing to say. There's a void that cannot be filled.

I never imagined my career would take off this fast.

At first, because this genre of music was so urban, sometimes we would sing songs that were so aggressive. And my parents didn't like it. They would break my cassettes and say, 'That music is garbage.'

People are really surprised by the fact that I keep in touch with the latest trends rather than retreating to the distant past.

I don't think you know how much you can do until you try.

My parents did not want us to lose our culture and our language. And that was a good thing.

I thank God for giving me help to play this game.

Performing on Broadway is an honor and a challenge for any artist.

Just when you think we're living in a little bit of a divided world, music brings us together.

I'm one of the happiest people I know. I truly am. And it's genuine.

Roc Nation has an army. I'm happy because this is what I needed. I have the music, but they have the muscle.

St. Louis is home, so if anybody has anything bad to say about my home I'm going to be there for us.

'Dangerous' is an album that I was very dedicated to. I wanted every song to be a hit.

Even though there is randomness and improvisation in my music, I want to have some concrete idea that I can hold onto.

It's always good to get in contact, get involved with your teammates.

If you have a brother or sister, tell them you love them every day - that's the most beautiful thing. I told my sister how much I loved her every day. That's the only reason I'm OK right now.

Coming from Puerto Rico and having that be my musical universe for the majority of my life no doubt strongly impacts my music.

My hairdresser and I found ourselves shopping at Bloomingdale's with nothing to do for days.

I am Pisces, with Aries on the ascent. I couldn't have done all I've done in my life if it hadn't been for Aries.

There will never be another Mariano Rivera. He was a friend and a champion of a teammate. He really cared about the game of baseball, the way it was played, and whatever it took to win that night.

Everything happens within God's perfect plan.

I like to do something good every day of my life, and I wanna leave the earth better than I found it.

Theatre is immediate gratification.

There's so many other things I want to do. I don't want to do them to be different or just for a challenge, but because my heart and soul tell me to.