Rico Quotes - Page 3

• I haven't traveled in Africa nearly as much as I'd like to. I've been there a few times, and I'd like to learn more about the various cultures in Africa. But that's the basis point of where all of the music that I love is based upon, from Africa to Cuba to Puerto Rico to South America.

  Chick Corea

  Love Is, America, Cuba

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• That is why, with optimism instead of fear, all those who want to see Puerto Rico's status resolved should seek the truth about each option, including the upside and the downside of each.

  Dick Thornburgh

  Optimism, Want, Should

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• The most important thing is to find the balance between city and nature. I have that 'hippie quality' - my husband is a super-hippie Los Angeles boy - so we'll have to make time to go to Puerto Rico, and upstate New York, and be sure we get to do outdoorsy stuff like that.

  Ana Ortiz

  New York, Husband, Hippie

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• Sin embargo, la soberanía de los estados está definida y reconocida constitucionalmente, mientras que los poderes del gobierno local de Puerto Rico están definidos por la ley estatutaria federal y sujetos a alteración en virtud de la misma.

  Dick Thornburgh

  Gobierno, Derecho, Estados

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• Aside from being a Latina, my family immigrated from Puerto Rico and Yugoslavia so I know all about that. I wouldn’t be able to do what I do today if they didn’t come to America. Everybody has an immigration story.

  Naya Rivera

  Yugoslavia, America, Immigration

  "Naya Rivera, Jamie-Lynn Sigler, Rocsi Diaz Take A Stand For Immigration In New PSAs", www.foxnews.com. July 14, 2014.

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• I was ballet dancing at four, playing piano by six, and doing commercials by 12. When I was 21, I was on the number one live comedy show in Puerto Rico. I told my parents, 'I'm going to New York to become a performer.' And I left.

  Roselyn Sánchez

  New York, Piano, Numbers

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I hope I will live to see a final meeting of the minds between Puerto Rico and statehood. But if I don’t live that long, I am certain it will happen.

  Luis A. Ferre

  Long, Mind, Finals

  "Ex-Puerto Rican Governor Ferre Dies at 99" by Ian James, apnews.com. October 22, 2003.

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• My brother, Mario, is in show business and so are all my cousins on my dad's side. We come from a family of musicians. My grandmother's sister in Puerto Rico plays five instruments.

  Irene Cara

  Cousin, Brother, Dad

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• Now that the there is a path for the people of Puerto Rico to express their self-determination on Puerto Rico's political status, there are some who seek to block that path.

  Dick Thornburgh

  Determination, Block, Self

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• Sin embargo, las personas físicas y jurídicas de Puerto Rico no pagan impuestos federales sobre la renta.

  Dick Thornburgh

  Income, Pay, Corporations

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• Federal program and services outlay in Puerto Rico is approximately $10 billion per year.

  Dick Thornburgh

  Years, Program, Puerto Rico

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• My mother always gives the best advice. When I left Puerto Rico to pursue my dreams, she always supported me and said to me, 'I'm never going to cut your wings, so don't let anyone else do that to you.' That has been my philosophy through life. I want to share that valuable lesson with my little girl someday.

  Roselyn Sánchez

  Niña, Madre, Sueño

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My grandfather came over from Puerto Rico and raised his kids speaking English so that it would be easier for them to assimilate.

  Aubrey Plaza

  Kids, Grandfather, Would Be

  "Biografía/Citas personales". www.imdb.com.

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• You know, you may not be born in Puerto Rico, but Puerto Rican is definitely born in you.

  Rosie Pérez

  May, Born, Puerto Rico

  "Rosie Perez' U.S.-Puerto Rico Documentary". Interview with Ed Gordon, www.npr.org. April 27, 2006.

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• No me sentí "malvado" cuando escribí anuncios para Puerto Rico. Ayudaban a atraer industria y turistas a un país que llevaba 400 años viviendo al borde de la inanición.

  David Ogilvy

  País, Años, Mal

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• we left about midnight and walked down the hill in silence. the night was muggy, and all around me i felt the same pressure, a sense of time rushing by while it seemed to be standing still. whenever i thought of time in puerto rico, i was reminded of those old magnetic clocks that hung on the walls of my classrooms in high school. every now and then a hand would not move for several minutes -- and if i watched it long enough, wondering if it had finally broken down, the sudden click of the hand jumping three for four notches would startle me when it came.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Wall, Moving, School

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “The Rum Diary: A Novel”, p.101, Simon and Schuster

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• (Talks about her grandmother Marjorie Finlay)"She was actually a recording star in Puerto Rico when my mom was growing up. My mom was always stuck sitting backstage somewhere or sitting in a front row, watching a performance her entire childhood. She thought that when her mom stopped performing she was relieved of those duties, but all I wanted to do was sing, ever since I was born, so she's always been backstage.

  Taylor Swift

  Mom, Stars, Growing Up

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• This is your heritage,' he said, as if from this dance we could know about his own childhood, about the flavor and grit of tenement buildings in Spanish Harlem, and projects in Red Hook, and dance halls, and city parks, and about how his own Paps, how he had beat him, how he taught him to dance, as if we could hear Spanish in his movements, as if Puerto Rico was a man in a bathrobe, grabbing another beer from the fridge and raising it to drink, his head back, still dancing, still steeping and snapping perfectly in time.

  Justin Torres

  Beer, Men, Cities

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• Los sábados por la mañana iba a la tienda de café Flavor Cup o Puerto Rico Importing a por mi café. A menudo estaba recién tostado y los granos aún estaban calientes. El café era mi néctar y mi ambrosía: Lo cuidaba mucho. Decantaba mis granos en cristal... y los molía en pequeñas tandas en mi molinillo.

  Laurie Colwin

  Morning, Coffee, Glasses

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• I had such a great upbringing in Puerto Rico, and it was just a very normal life.

  Roselyn Sánchez

  Normal, Puerto Rico, Upbringing

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Cuando tienes al jefe de gabinete del Comité Nacional Republicano y al director político de la campaña de Romney, y sus dos empresas reciben 150 millones de dólares al final de la campaña por el "fantástico" programa de captación de votos... algo de esto roza las violaciones de la ley RICO.

  Patrick Caddell

  Dos, Políticos, Directores

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• Muchas casas estaban todavía llenas de luz cuando, al cierre del 22 de marzo, la gente del Círculo regresó a sus hogares, que se alegraron con una alegría efímera por una hora de justicia -¡porque todavía hay muchos esclavos, blancos y negros, en Puerto Rico!

  José Martí

  Home, Black And White, Light

  "The Abolition of Slavery in Puerto Rico". Essay by Jose Marti, 1893.

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• I was very skinny and very lanky and kind of awkward. In Puerto Rico everybody is a little more voluptuous, with these beautiful bodies and there I was the skinny lanky girl.

  Joyce Giraud

  Beautiful, Girl, Awkward

  "5 Things You Didn’t Know About Rumored "Real Housewives of Beverly Hills" Star Joyce Giraud!". toofab.com. July 1, 2013.

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• Rico Gear. What a great-sounding name. He sounds like a drug dealer from Brazil.

  Murray Mexted

  Names, Drug, Sound

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• 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.

  Joyce Giraud

  Together, Typical, Tamales

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