Top 100 Perez's Quotes
#1. Iloved Ashley Hope Perez's heartbreaking Out of Darkness set in late the 1930s in a small town Texas. It should win all the YA awards.
Justine Larbalestier
#2. I've built walls too steep for any man to climb. I'm caged. My heart is that cage. It's always been my strength and weakness. Unfortunately, feeling emotions so strongly has worked against me most of my life. There's
Kathryn Perez
#3. It's often pointed out that in Cuban cinema there are too many comedies, but a sense of humor is so much part of the Cuban idiosyncrasy. Curiously, the films that have been censored the most have been humorous.
Fernando Perez
#4. That's what so strange and tragic about all of this,' he said. 'Friends fighting friends, kin against kin....It's all so wrong and unnatural. Here we are, two armies desperate to win, and all the time there's this queer....respect.....between us.
N.A. Perez
#5. In all of my movies I've tried to address the need for man - not just Cubans - to have a dream and to fight for that dream, even when he doesn't achieve it. It's a form of happiness.
Fernando Perez
#6. It's fun to challenge yourself and take advantage of all the opportunities that present themselves.
Perez Hilton
#7. I had the luxury of skipping the cabinet meeting to attend my daughter's graduation. So many people don't have the luxury of taking an hour away from the workplace to attend indispensable family commitments. We have to change that dynamic.
Thomas Perez
#8. found out later that he lived alone, surrounded by books, both his own and other people's, and that as well as being a hired hunter of books he was an expert on Napoleon's battles. He could set out on a board, from memory, the exact positions of troops on the eve of Waterloo. A
Arturo Perez-Reverte
#9. The base of artistic pursuit is ambivalence and complexity. And that's what I try to do.
Fernando Perez
#10. I read fiction all the time. It's true that I don't like fantasy or science fiction. I like "realistic" novels, particularly those in which nothing much ever happens.
Gustavo Perez Firmat
#11. An obscure flesh-and-blood Gascon, forgotten by History, transformed into a legendary giant by the novelist's genius
Arturo Perez-Reverte
#12. I imagine he's married. Or was ... He seems damaged in the way that only we women can damage men.
Arturo Perez-Reverte
#13. Cuban public is special - they participate, generate a lot of energy, both in a positive and negative sense. It's always an expressive audience.
Fernando Perez
#14. The best power of all is to be free, but Obama is not a free person. He is a prisoner of a military system. He talked about closing Guantanamo and ending the war in Iraq. Now he's taken on another war. What's happening?
Adolfo Perez Esquivel
#15. A reader is the total of all he's read, in addition to all the films and television he's seen.
Arturo Perez-Reverte
#16. Face dance means you don't know what the hell the rest of your body was doing but your face is fierce. That's face dancing.
Rosie Perez
#17. On July 2, 1964, President Johnson signed into law the Civil Rights Act. Its enactment, following the longest continuous debate in the history of the U.S. Senate, enshrined into law the basic principle upon which our country was founded - that all people are created equal.
Thomas Perez
#18. You can make a text mean anything, especially if it's old and full of ambiguities.
Arturo Perez-Reverte
#19. We're building a movement. It's undeniably a work in progress, but there's a fundamental desire to see capitalism to do something different.
Thomas Perez
#20. The racism, the sexism, I never let it be my problem. It's their problem. If I see a door comin' my way, I'm knockin' it down. And if I can't knock down the door, I'm sliding through the window. I'll never let it stop me from what I wanna do.
Rosie Perez
#21. Consider in 1945, when the United Nations was first formed, there were something like fifty-one original member countries. Now the United Nations is made up of 193 nations, but it follows the same structure in which five nations control it. It's an anti-democratic structure.
Adolfo Perez Esquivel
#22. Employers have recognized for some time that it's smart business to have a diverse workforce - one in which many views are represented and everyone's talents are valued. Well, disability is part of diversity.
Thomas Perez
#23. I met a woman working 30 hours a week, trying to make ends meet, three children. And she slept the night before I met her in her car because she's homeless. We can do better. We can build a nation of shared prosperity.
Thomas Perez
#24. If you cannot seat where they sit, you have no right to tell them what's good for them.
J.A. Perez
#25. I'm tired of looking for something that will never be there. I've looked for it on the edge of a blade and at the bottom of a bottle. It's not there. It's just ... gone.
Kathryn Perez
#26. I think that this necessity to travel, to see, it's part of human nature.
Fernando Perez
#27. It was one of Diego Alatriste's virtues that he could make friends in Hell.
Arturo Perez-Reverte
#28. Have you ever loved something so much that you never had to even think about whether you did or not? That's how I love him.
R. YS Perez
#30. I don't have much history - I've got Rosie Perez, Jennifer Lopez, Rita Moreno. That's it. That's the history of Latin women in Hollywood, really.
Michelle Rodriguez
#31. It's a reality check. These other countries took it seriously. You have to realize that other countries play the game and that anything can happen in a three-game series. It's do, or die.
Eduardo Perez
#32. Let's drive our
Volvo into a brick wall to make
Rosie Perez feel better.
Donora A. Rihn
#33. My father's death took me to a place I had never been and a place I had never left. In his absence, I've had to rely more on myself.
Gustavo Perez Firmat
#34. There's a myth out there that you have to genuflect at the altar of quarterly earnings. But it's a false choice that you can either be a good fiduciary or promote values such as environmental sustainability.
Thomas Perez
#35. I am like a doctor. I have written a prescription to help the patient. If the patient doesn't want all the pills I've recommended, that's up to him. But I must warn that next time I will have to come as a surgeon with a knife.
Javier Perez De Cuellar
#36. The labor movement is our brother's keeper! The labor movement is our sister's keeper!
Thomas Perez
#37. I started lying about my age when I was 18 to be older. When I turned 21, I started lying that I was 18. It's a weakness in me.
Rosie Perez
#38. My truth is everyone else's lies. My lies are their comfort. Telling the truth makes people uncomfortable. Who am I to cause anyone discomfort on purpose? Lying works. Lying makes it all better. Lying is my gift to everyone around me. They never even say thank you.
Kathryn Perez
#39. When homosexuals were repressed, you got Tennessee Williams. Today's tolerance got you Hilton Perez.
Lenny Bruce
#40. Now you've seen a hero," he said. "And that's worth something." - Eckermann, CONVERSATIONS WITH GOETHE
Arturo Perez-Reverte
#41. I think I just have this need to be a storyteller. That's why I wasn't a great dancer - I couldn't articulate a story. I was a better choreographer. I have the need to to just express myself in that way. I can't explain it.
Rosie Perez
#42. There's a long bipartisan tradition of civil rights enforcement.
Thomas Perez
#43. One of the best ways to grow this economy is to put money in people's pockets.
Thomas Perez
#44. If you're one car accident away from poverty, you're on a high wire without a safety net. And that's a challenging proposition.
Thomas Perez
#45. The majority of Latin actresses in Hollywood were always playing either spitfires or maids. Now here is a woman who comes in and does leads opposite white people and black people and other Spanish people, and she's comfortable in her skin? Gasp! How dare she?
Rosie Perez
#46. What's the point of these demagogic campaigns if these hungry kids are still here on the road? All little ones deserve protection, food, love and peace.
Carla Perez
#47. I love music and I love musicians. I separate them. I'm a big fan of Lily Allen's music, but I'm not a fan of her personality. I differentiate the two.
Perez Hilton
#48. The employers who do best are employers who reject these false choices. It's not a zero-sum world where you either take care of your workers or you take care of your shareholders. You can do good and do well, too.
Thomas Perez
#49. I have to take the positives from 2012 and the negatives as well because you learn more than you do from the positives. It has been a great season last year, a lot of learning, and now it's another approach. The way I will approach this year is totally different, so we are ready to fight for it.
Sergio Perez
#50. When I see something I end up making a song about it and that's the way it is. There have been plenty of times when I've been in the studio and they were like, "Hey, why don't you make a song about such and such," and I just can't. I've gotta have it in my heart.
Amanda Perez
#51. Apprenticeships are a particularly effective way to create career pathways with upward mobility and strong earning potential. Because apprentices receive a paycheck, it's a great option for those with families to support, including many veterans.
Thomas Perez
#52. I wonder what's worse-the invisible scars they leave or the visible scars I inflict upon myself?
Kathryn Perez
#53. Actually loneliness has a kind of fascination; it's a state of egotistical, inner grace that you can achieve only by standing guard on old, forgotten roads that no one travels anymore.
Arturo Perez-Reverte
#54. My grandmother's idea of a mixed marriage is a Methodist who marries a Baptist. Although she'd never admit it, in her heart, I know she believes Jesus was Methodist.
L. King Perez
#55. I say that being a smart writer doesn't make you a good writer. There's obviously a difference between talent and intelligence. And it may be that at some point intelligence begins to impinge on talent, or talent on intelligence.
Gustavo Perez Firmat
#56. As far as a Latin explosion, I'm sorry, I'm the only Latino who's going to say it, but there is no Latin explosion. I'm sorry. Four or five top box office people do not make it an explosion, and it's disgusting to me that people will perceive it that way.
Rosie Perez
#57. I got the sense of it, because Dan's eyes are not so much as those of a young boy, but there's knowledge in his perspective.
Sandra Perez Gluschankoff
#58. My family background is Mexican, and I was born in Chicago. It's pretty much family tradition every time we get together for Christmas and major holidays to sing. Our family time is centered around the food and a little bit of performing for one another.
Ailyn Perez
#59. You lucky bitch. He's packing and eats pussy like it's his job. What's that website again?
Kathryn Perez
#60. I did not try to conform to anybody's ideal of what a Latin celebrity or movie star should be. I took a lot of hits for it.
Rosie Perez
#61. There definitely is an appearance issue, ... Now whether or not there's a reality issue, I don't know.
Jorge M. Perez
#62. There's a Cuban saying: Bicho malo nunca muere. Loose translation: The good die young but the wicked live forever. It seems to apply to Fidel. I hope it applies to me.
Gustavo Perez Firmat
#63. My parents, fleeing a repressive regime in the Dominican Republic, were embraced by this country and taught us to love it in return. After my father served proudly in the U.S. Army, they settled in Buffalo, N.Y., and were able to live the American Dream.
Thomas Perez
#64. There was a time when emigration from Cuba was a definitive separation. There were no visits. In the '80s, '90s, it was incredibly difficult. I'm not the only one interested in this as a filmmaker - other Cuban filmmakers have dealt with it, too, because it's such a part of our reality.
Fernando Perez
#65. I see explicit covers on magazines, and they're getting even more explicit, and it's like, Are women being empowered, or is this just what sells magazines? Are they feeling pressured, or have they really come into themselves and are saying, 'I am woman, hear me roar?'
Rosie Perez
#66. Part of me relates to Perez Hilton because he's an outcast. I don't have a lot of friends who are actresses. They're catty, and they'll cut you down. I like that Perez is proud of who he is and doesn't care what anybody thinks.
Amanda Bynes
#67. It's a given that we'll have sex. I know it sounds horrible, but I don't feel bad about it. Guys want it, and if you don't give it to them, they don't want you. I want him to want me, so sex is necessary. I just want to be wanted. Loved. After
Kathryn Perez
#68. There's no matter here you can't re-matter into love.
Laurie Perez
#70. It's scary how you can be haunted by someone who is still alive.
R. YS Perez
#71. Paco Montegrifo was the sort of man who decides, as soon as he's old enough to make such decisions, that black socks are strictly for chauffeurs and waiters and opts instead for socks of only the darkest navy blue.
Arturo Perez-Reverte
#72. Jessica, falling in love can't always be a happily ever after or a once in a lifetime kind of story. Those happen in books, in movies. This is life and it's real. Life has no script, no outline. We broke the rules of love long ago. All I know for sure is that with you, the rules will never apply.
Kathryn Perez
#73. It is not possible that it is God's will that women are making 77 cents on a dollar.
Thomas Perez
#74. Raising the minimum wage to $10.10 will benefit about 28 million workers across the country. And it will help businesses, too - raising the wage will put more money in people's pockets, which they will pump back into the economy by spending it on goods and services in their communities.
Thomas Perez
#75. It's a false choice to say we either have job safety or job growth. It's a false choice to suggest that the only way for a business to survive is to make sure workers have low wages and little or no benefits. There are ample models across this country where we've demonstrated the contrary.
Thomas Perez
#77. The Labor Department's Hall of Honor recognizes men and women - like Cesar Chavez, Helen Keller and the Workers of the Memphis Sanitation Strike - who have made invaluable contributions to the welfare of American workers.
Thomas Perez
#78. In the wealthiest nation on Earth, no one who works a full time job should have to live in poverty. That's a fundamental value proposition, an article of faith in our country that I know an overwhelming majority of Americans agree on.
Thomas Perez
#79. It's true that in Cuba there are double standards, there's opportunism, and there is a lack of freedom in some ways.
Fernando Perez
#80. She loves you, loathes you, treats you well, then ill. Like a leech or a surgeon's knife, she's double-edged: sometimes she'll cure, but sometimes she will kill.
Arturo Perez-Reverte
#81. Sometimes," he said at last, as if it were an enormous effort to formulate his thoughts, "I wonder if chess is something man invented or if he merely discovered it. It's as if it were something that has always been there, since the beginning of the universe. Like whole numbers.
Arturo Perez-Reverte
#82. Raising the minimum wage isn't just pro-worker; it's pro-economic growth.
Thomas Perez
#83. Ale Perez What happened to your right hand?
TCKeller hucky made me finger-spell supercalifragilisticexpialidocious untill he got it right. it took an hour and a half. i still can't hold a fork. what's the favour.
Steve Kluger
#84. Immigration and travel certainly don't mean the same thing everywhere. Here in Cuba, the big wall isn't just the fact that it's an island, but the fact that we need an exit permit in order to leave, and the letters of invitation in order to visit another country.
Fernando Perez
#85. I'm not saying it will always be easy because we are human. Two people in love will always have uphill battles but it's how you handle those challenges that truly matter.
Kathryn Perez
#86. The fact that Perez Hilton calls me 'Saman' - it's the most homophobic thing ever. The perpetuation of [the idea that I'm] the man in the relationship! OK, yeah, my hair is short and I'm a DJ. But I'm a girl, I'm not a dude. I'm pretty feminine at the end of the day.
Samantha Ronson
#87. The Cuban public is hugely cinephile. It's a shame that most of the movie theaters are so deteriorated. The sense of spectacle has been lost a little, but even so, people continue to go.
Fernando Perez
#88. What is happiness to me is not necessarily for you. Someone once said, there are three truths: your truth, my truth and the truth. And I think that's true.
Fernando Perez
#89. Jessica, you're my here, my there, and my always everywhere. Together or apart, you've awakened a part of me that's been locked away for the past year. I love you and if loving you is wrong, then I don't ever want to be right.
Kathryn Perez
#90. Do you know what the Negro is? Animal right out of the jungle. Passion. Welfare. Easy life. That's the Negro.
Leander Perez
#91. Trips are part of humanity. Emigration is a part of humanity. And it's ever more dynamic due to globalization.
Fernando Perez
#92. Cubans joke and satirize everything that life gives them, and I think that's a positive characteristic.
Fernando Perez
#93. In Cuba and specifically in Havana there's a sort of energy that turns every situation into something unexpected.
Fernando Perez
#94. Full-time workers earning the current federal minimum wage of $7.25 only earn about $14,500 a year in wages - below the poverty line for a family of two. That's unacceptable.
Thomas Perez
#95. Labor Day 2013 is special. This year marks the centennial of the U.S. Department of Labor - 100 years of working for America's workers.
Thomas Perez
#96. Workers are baking the pie of prosperity, but they're not sharing in those dividends. That's unfair.
Thomas Perez
#97. I used to think I was in love with Mia because she was in love with me. Now when I watch her strutting down the runway, twisting and flouncing the way her mother trained her, I know she's just a human coat hanger. A wired body I hold late at night and try to fit into.
Laurie Perez
#98. Now, what's stirring in this murky sea of complexity and foolishness is an almost suffocating need to breathe fresh history.
Laurie Perez
#99. Chess is all about getting the king into check, you see. It's about killing the father. I would say that chess has more to do with the art of murder than it does with the art of war.
Arturo Perez-Reverte
#100. I think public sector workers, our teachers, our firefighters, our home health workers who work for states, they do God's work. They are some of our most important employees.
Thomas Perez
