Rico Quotes - Page 3

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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They (the people of Puerto Rico) are truly the sweetest people on earth.

Johnny Depp

People, Earth, Puerto Rico

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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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If Congress does its job in this regard, the residents of Puerto Rico will be empowered to act in their own self-interest and express their future political status aspirations accordingly.

Dick Thornburgh

Jobs, Self, Empowering

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I've always been athletic. Growing up in Puerto Rico, and being in the countryside, I was always running around. I also played volleyball, basketball, and I ran track. I was always very conscious of my body.

Joan Smalls

Basketball, Running, Volleyball

"VIDEO: How to Work Out Like Joan Smalls". Interview, www.elle.com. September 16, 2014.

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Yet, Puerto Ricos economic convergence and political integration with the rest of the nation is in a state of arrest - even though the island has been within the national borders, political system and customs territory of the U.S. for a century.

Dick Thornburgh

Islands, Political, Borders

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Automobile in America,Chromium steel in America,Wire-spoke wheel in America,Very big deal in America!Immigrant goes to America,Many hellos in America,Nobody knows in America,Puerto Rico's in America!I like the shores of America!Comfort is yours in America!Knobs on the doors in America!Wall-to-wall floors in America!

Stephen Sondheim

Wall, Doors, America

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I didn't know I had this many fans in Puerto Rico. I'm going to carry this memory to my grave.

Allen Iverson

Memories, Fans, Graves

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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

"Biography/Personal Quotes". 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 Perez

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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I did not feel 'evil' when I wrote advertisements for Puerto Rico. They helped attract industry and tourists to a country which had been living on the edge of starvation for 400 years.

David Ogilvy

Country, Years, Evil

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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 Sanchez

Girl, Mother, Dream

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

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Yet, individuals and corporations in Puerto Rico pay no federal income tax.

Dick Thornburgh

Income, Pay, Corporations

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

Dick Thornburgh

Years, Program, Puerto Rico

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

Roselyn Sanchez

Normal, Puerto Rico, Upbringing

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

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On Saturday mornings I would walk to the Flavor Cup or Puerto Rico Importing coffee store to get my coffee. Often it was freshly roasted and the beans were still warm. Coffee was my nectar and my ambrosia: I was very careful about it. I decanted my beans into glass...and I ground them in little batches in my grinder.

Laurie Colwin

Morning, Coffee, Glasses

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Puerto Rico is an island separated by an ocean, a language, a culture. All of that put it in a position where it's like, "What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas," but what happened in Puerto Rico never happened at all. It's not like there was a decades-long conspiracy. It's just the aggregation of all these historical forces made it difficult for this information to exist in one place.

Nelson Antonio Denis

Ocean, Vegas, Islands

Source: www.motherjones.com

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When you have the Chief of Staff of the Republican National Committee and the political director of the Romney campaign, and their two companies get $150 million at the end of the campaign for the 'fantastic' get-out-the-vote program... some of this borders on RICO violations.

Patrick Caddell

Two, Political, Directors

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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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Without question, so many people, throughout my life, never think of Puerto Rico as part of the United States. Many people have no idea what the relationship is between Puerto Rico and the United States. And certainly, I have been asked if we are citizens.

Sonia Sotomayor

Thinking, Ideas, People

"Sotomayor on Puerto Rico, Not Speaking Spanish… and Poker". voicesofny.org. January 15, 2013.

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