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I don't call myself Latin, I call myself Puerto Rican.


Rosie Perez
Tags: Myself Call Latin
I'm a little bit of everything. Sometimes people think I'm not Puerto Rican, because my name doesn't sound Spanish.
Joan Smalls
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Theatre is immediate gratification.


Chita Rivera
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Baseball has been very good to me.


Roberto Clemente
Tags: Good Me Very
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I think my favorite thing is songwriting.


Carlos Ponce
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I was born to play baseball.


Roberto Clemente
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I used to be so embarrassed by salsa; I wasn't into it.


La India
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I have always believed that you win fights round by round.


Miguel Cotto
Tags: You Always Win
After one hundred years of federal rule, the United States House of Representatives has moved to provide for the first meaningful route to self-determination for the Puerto Rican people under our federal system.
Dick Thornburgh
Tags: People Our First
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I'd like to get the word out there, the word has to be spread.


Chita Rivera
Tags: Like Get Out
One-third of all professional baseball players come from Latin America, and Sosa is following role models such as the late Roberto Clemente, a Puerto Rican, from whom he adopted the No. 21. Now he is a model for others.
Bill Dedman
Tags: He Now Come
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After about 15 minutes, you feel that you're winning them over.


Chita Rivera
Tags: You About Them
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I was busy welcoming a new experience. I had never done a movie before.


Chita Rivera
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I love 'I Love Lucy,' and I have the DVD set of 'I Love Lucy.'


Ramon Rodriguez
Tags: Love I Love Dvd
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I am convinced that God wanted me to be a baseball player.


Roberto Clemente
Tags: God Me Am
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Basketball paid for four years of my education, and I am so proud of that.


Ramon Rodriguez
Tags: Education Am I Am
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'Dangerous' is an album that I was very dedicated to. I wanted every song to be a hit.


Yandel
Tags: Very Every Wanted
To be the first Puerto Rican to win a world title in four divisions would be an achievement. Gomez, Benitez, there have been a lot of good fighters from Puerto Rico before me. When I started boxing, Tito Trinidad was our big star.
Miguel Cotto
Tags: Good Me Been
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As a composer, I'm basically trying to represent myself through my music in an honest way.


Miguel Zenon
Tags: Music Way Myself
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Fashion is part of our culture, and it's about more than just a pretty dress.


Joan Smalls
Tags: About Just More
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Trust me, you have to fight. When people are wrong, you've got to let them know it.


Orlando Cepeda
Tags: Trust You People
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You just see a good project and want to be involved in it, and that's what 'Dexter' was.


David Zayas
Tags: Good You Just
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On the streets, hanging out with the fellows, there are things you learn that no book can teach you.


Ramon Rodriguez
Tags: You Out Things
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When was the last time you saw a musical about people at war with each other?


Rita Moreno
Tags: Time War You
I am half Puerto Rican, a quarter German and a quarter black. That was always a big issue for me - being mixed race - because casting directors tended to be very like, 'OK, are you Hispanic for this role?' 'Or is she going to be African American?'
Naya Rivera
Tags: You Me Like
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Go learn the language. Go take some acting lessons. Start from zero like everybody else.


Roselyn Sanchez
Tags: Like Go Some
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I enjoy being in New York. I have so many fans here that sing all my songs from start to finish.


Yandel
Tags: Being Many New
Charlie Parker is my greatest inspiration as a saxophone player - anything that involves him entails a large amount of respect.
Miguel Zenon
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I love someone who can make me laugh. And someone who's secure - I think that's sexy.


Roselyn Sanchez
Tags: Me Think Who
Always be your husband's best friend, make him laugh and give him a little bit of freedom - you can't suffocate him.
Roselyn Sanchez
Tags: Best Freedom You
If I would be happy, I would be a very bad ball player. With me, when I get mad, it puts energy in my body.
Roberto Clemente
Tags: Me Get Very
You can feel whether an audience is tightened up and pulled back. Of course the opposite is an audience like we've been having in LA, which is fabulous.
Chita Rivera
Tags: You Like Up
To be honest, a lot of ride-alongs are not that great. There might be one or two calls on the radio - not a lot - depending on what time you go.
Ramon Rodriguez
Tags: Time Great You
I'd say it's even harder to cater to Hispanics than to the lesbian or gay community. We're so culturally separated: Puerto Ricans, Dominicans, Mexicans, Venezuelans. We're all so different.
Carlos Ponce
Tags: Than Say Even
I come from a pop background, but I'm also a Puerto Rican and I do feel this music. My approach to salsa is a humble one, and I defy anybody to prove that I'm faking it.
Marc Anthony
Tags: Music Feel Come
I played college basketball in West Virginia for two years, and then I graduated from NYU with a sports management degree because I realized the NBA's not going to happen.
Ramon Rodriguez
I admire them for making their way up and opening new opportunities for other Latin newcomers. Latinos have come a long way and the roles and opportunities just seem to be improving.
Roselyn Sanchez
Tags: Just Up Them
Growing up in New York City, my car culture is minimal. I rode on the train, the bus. I walked; I rode my bike, and when I was younger, I rode my skateboard.
Ramon Rodriguez
Tags: Car Up New
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.
La India
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.
La India
Tags: Very Want Love
Thanksgiving is one of my favorite days of the year because it reminds us to give thanks and to count our blessings. Suddenly, so many things become so little when we realize how blessed and lucky we are.
Joyce Giraud
There were a lot of kids from Puerto Rico at my high school in Florida; people always assumed I was Puerto Rican. Even now in California, I get talked to on the street in Spanish constantly!
Torrey DeVitto
Tags: People Get Always
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.
Jorge Posada
Tags: Like Who Will
From 1997 through 1999, I had gained so much. People don't realize how something like weight gain can make you sad. Losing weight has changed my life. If you can take control of your life, you can lose weight.
La India
Tags: Sad You People
A career high was when I did a cover for 'W Magazine's July issue with Steven Meisel. So few girls shoot with Meisel in their career, and a lot of people had told me I would never achieve that, so it was a dream come true.
Joan Smalls
Tags: People Me Had
I think it's nice to know that people in the industry are paying attention to all of the hard work you've done throughout the years and rewarding you for it. It reminds you to keep doing it, to keep pushing yourself, and to always remain that way.
Joan Smalls
Tags: Work You People
I'm a half-breed. You know, I'm Puerto Rican and Norwegian from descent, and I grew up, born and raised in New York City, and I stood out amongst my friends in my community. I was very blond-haired, white, and 'Lemonhead' was the name that they gave me.
Lemon Andersen
Tags: You Me Out
I don't want to be named myself as one of the elite boxers of Puerto Rico. That's for the fans and for the people that know about boxing. I just want to do my job the best I can, and I am going to do that the rest of my career.
Miguel Cotto
Tags: Best People About
I am a product of affirmative action. I am the perfect affirmative action baby. I am Puerto Rican, born and raised in the south Bronx. My test scores were not comparable to my colleagues at Princeton and Yale. Not so far off so that I wasn't able to succeed at those institutions.
Sonia Sotomayor
Tags: Were Am I Am
I became obsessed watching fashion TV shows when I was a teenager and recognized that I had the height and body frame. I especially became hooked when I saw on 'E! True Hollywood Story' how much a model can make and how I can achieve a better living for my family and me.
Joan Smalls
Tags: Family Me Had