Lauren Velez Quotes

#1. When I first came out to L.A., Hollywood's idea of a Latina was Mexican. It was almost like they had never seen or heard of an Afro-Latina before.

Lauren Velez

#2. Textbooks in economics, which explain the economic purpose of money (a unit of account, a store of value, and a means of exchange), usually neglect to mention the chief role of money in America: a source of entertainment.

Michael Lewis

#3. A man who believes everything can be explained by science is just as ignorant as someone who believes everything can be explained by religion.

Zack W. Van

#4. After 'Dexter' and 'La Lupe', I would love to return to theater. I'm just ready for more.

Lauren Velez

#5. We're just different."
"Yeah," I say. "I'm mute and you have verbal diarrhea.

Janet Gurtler

#6. I don't have children, but I have 17 nieces and nephews, and they more than make up for anything that I can do. I have a stepdaughter, and I adore her to pieces, and I think about adoption. There are so many kids at different ages and stages that need families.

Lauren Velez

#7. Tea tempers the spirits and harmonizes the mind, dispels lassitude and relieves fatigue, awakens thought and prevents drowsiness, lightens or refreshes the body, and clears the perceptive faculties.

Lu Yu

#8. Yoga is the practice of quieting the mind.

Patanjali

#9. The more value you create for others, the more your life will work. Commit yourself to doing good. To get more from life, you must give more to life.

Robin S. Sharma

#10. They dashed on towards that thin red line tipped with steel.

William Howard Russell

#11. If you want to be a good conversationalist, be a good listener. To be interesting, be interested.

Dale Carnegie

#12. Recession, terrorism, debts, political turmoil, disease, famine, mortality... screw it, I'm putting googly eyes on things.

Charles R.L. Guthrie

#13. I'm kind of a reluctant Anglophile. My mother's a children's librarian, and all of the children's literature I read was from her childhood - E. Nesbit and Dickens, which isn't children's literature at all, but I was sort of steeped in English literature. I thought I was of that world.

Jefferson Mays

#14. I'm much more ambitious than I'd like to admit.

Lauren Velez

#15. 'La Lupe' is my passion project. I've done it as a one-woman show, but I'm raising money to turn it into a film. It's a story of a Cuban singer who became the Queen of Latin Soul, the first woman on the N.Y. salsa scene.

Lauren Velez

#16. Investors should be cautiously positioned as the global economy and markets face major uncertainties. The downgrade will be a further headwind to growth and job creation in the U.S.

Mohamed El-Erian

#17. Whenever an answer, a solution, or a creative idea is needed, stop thinking for a moment by focusing attention on your inner energy field ... When you resume thinking, it will be fresh and creative.

Eckhart Tolle