Top 661 Quotes & Sayings by Puerto Rican Authors - Page 4

I wash my hair once a week. You can do that. I swear. My sister-in-law and all of my friends were like, 'I can't do that. It sounds gross.' Once you train your hair, it will do whatever you want it to do. And on day seven when it's too oily, you just put it in a ponytail.

I'm one of those performers who has done just about everything except juggle, and I'm working on that.

I like new challenges and new experiences.

I would love to continue working on animated films. Yeah, those are my ambitions. No doubt.

I am able to get up and dust myself off and keep moving forward. I'm very stubborn.

It taught the English to speak Spanish and it taught the Spanish to speak English. If we had more songs such as that, it would solve the immigration problem in a hurry. But there can't be another 'Feliz Navidad.'

Women see me as a figure they can respect. They know I've been through a lot. I'm not going to let no man put me under.

There is only one Mariano Rivera. There won't be another person who will come along and do what he did. No one does it like him. It was an honor to catch him and play alongside him for as long as I did.

I admire the Shabbat tradition, and no matter which faith you are of, there is nothing more wonderful than dedicating a certain day to spend time with your family and loved ones, absent of TV, phone, and other interruptions.

I think my favorite thing is songwriting.

I started rapping at the age of 12. That's when I wrote my first song, but I was more intrigued on learning how the recording process works: how do you create music and what materials I needed. So I educated myself musically so that I could focus on creating my own.

I loved being in the film called 'Carnal Knowledge' - the one with Jack Nicholson, which was very dark but a really brilliant movie. I loved being in 'The Ritz.' 'The Ritz' I think is just hilarious. I just saw it again recently and by God, it's still funny!

I want to look beautiful.

'Despacito' started with a melody hook that I had with my guitar only. The beat for this track came after I wrote the lyrics, which I wrote as if I was writing a ballad.

I hate being skinny and being a little weakling thing.

I felt pressure to follow in Madonna's footsteps, and I didn't want to base my career on sex. So I began to change how I saw myself.

With 'True Detective,' you have a lot of time. How I like to describe it... it's like you're filming a theater piece.

It's easy to work with someone who shares your same work ethic, who likes to create like you do.

I just want to continue to break barriers and to show the industry and the world that beauty is diverse, and you don't have to be a certain stereotype to be beautiful.

Mother never said to me, 'Stay out of trouble.' She didn't have to!

I'm not like other guitar players. In fact, I'm not even like most acoustic players because I use the nylon-string acoustic. I do play steel-string and the electric guitar, too, because I love rock 'n' roll and guitarists like Jimi Hendrix. But my bread and butter has always been the nylon-string.

I wanted to show people that I can do something besides street music.

I always had crazy, curly hair up in a bun, messy, running up and down, sweaty.

I was a teen idol in Latin America.

Love is the reason to live.

To say I was near our president, performing at the Nobel Peace Prize... I think that's an amazing thing.

If you have a chance to accomplish something that will make things better for people coming behind you, and you don't do that, you are wasting your time on this earth.

As a matter of comparative, the U.S. citizens - the Puerto Ricans that live in the United States - have much better incomes, more than twice as much, participate in the labor force of greater scales, have better results in the education system, and so forth.

I became a teen idol. At the time, it embarrassed me.

In Puerto Rico, we have a lot of traditions. We eat a very typical thing that's called 'pasteles' - it's almost like a tamale made of bananas, and we make it all together. Like, all the women of the family unite, and it's a very big deal, a very big thing.

San Francisco has just blown us all away. I also understand Angels in America didn't do well there.

Obviously black matches with everything.

When a man retires, his wife gets twice the husband but only half the income.

I'm getting so old, I don't even buy green bananas anymore.

Pageants were a platform for me, and they helped me get to where I am today. You suddenly stop being just another girl, and people want to listen to what you have to say.

My first celebrity crush... I had a huge crush on 'Cheetara' from 'ThunderCats.'

The accordion was the first instrument I played, when I was 7 years old.

Originally, I thought English was more my home. But Spanish is so much more romantic. I've had to learn new phrases. I've had to learn to be more secure about singing in Spanish. But I'm working on it.

To me, my guitar has always been my orchestra.

Redheads have a lightness, a craziness, a kookiness. Think of Lucille Ball.

When you go to an oasis, you go there to supply yourself with the vital things you are missing, things that you need.

The world can criticize me, but l can always criticize it back.

I call myself the hardware shelf. There's a lot of awards and honors there. And I have earned that. I didn't ask for it, I didn't beg for it, I didn't pay for it. I earned that. People see the accomplishments - but it's good to remind people that so much strife and labor and tears and heartbreak came before that, that it really is earned.

I loved singing rock-and-roll, jazz, anything on radio, anything commercial. I was able to do anything, but I didn't know what direction to go in.

Wisin is my brother. He always will be my brother. We are very happy as solo artists. We had a great musical trajectory together, which will be there forever. And for the future, we won't discard reuniting and making something new.

A lot of guys out here are very serious, and God bless them, that's their personality. It's not a sin to be business-like.

I was always very, very insecure about my height. Even as a 15-year-old I was a foot and a half taller than everyone.

When I did the anthem, I did it with the understanding in my heart and mind that I did it because I'm a patriot. I was trying to be a grateful patriot. I was expressing my feelings for America when I did the anthem my way instead of just singing it with an orchestra.

I am the happiest Hispanic I've ever met. Truly.

Charlie Parker is my greatest inspiration as a saxophone player - anything that involves him entails a large amount of respect.

It's communication - that's what theatre is all about.

The sky is love's muse.

I'm very proud being Puerto Rican. I'm American. That is what America is made of - people from different lands.

If you're going to make black movies only about black people, that's as bad as white movies only about white people.

I don't need a person to make me happy.

I live in the moment. The moment is the most important thing. That's my entire philosophy: Make the best of the good moments.

Whether my lyrics are about love or something else, I always make sure I'm connecting with my fans, and to see their support is definitely a motivation.

I don't diet. I'm Puerto Rican! You can never take my rice, pork, and beans away.

When I was 15, I became an avid fan of Andres Segovia. He brought so much respectability to the guitar.

I'm kind of iffy on the Latin Grammys because I think we fought so hard, for example, to get the American side of the Grammys to open categories for us... But I support the Latin Grammys in the sense I'm glad that we have them.