Ricans Quotes

#1. But just know that there is evil in the world. Real evil. You can fight it, or you can hide and pretend it doesn't exist.

Scott Snyder

#2. The most popular single in the world was "Livin' la Vida Loca," a song about how Pro Tools made Puerto Ricans gay.

Chuck Klosterman

#3. You think we live in Norway or something? Amir Jordan is Pakistani. There's also an Asian guy, some Puerto Ricans, and the starting left wing has, like, carrot-hair. he must be Irish. It's the whole UN over there.

Sarah Ockler

#4. I hate every human being on earth. I feel that everyone is beneath me, and I feel they should all worship me. That's what I told my kids.

Roseanne Barr

#5. I am willing to bet that there are some Puerto Ricans who don't know about [their status].

Sonia Sotomayor

#6. I was used to heat but this place was so dry the trees were bribing the dogs.

Irvine Welsh

#7. We want to allow Costa Ricans to make a qualitative leap in our development and go to an economy based on innovation and developing a broadband infrastructure in order to overcome the barrier of 15 per cent penetration.

Laura Chinchilla

#8. The Puerto Ricans who come to our cities today have no place to roast pigs outdoors...

Jane Jacobs

#9. I want the sea to carry my unceasing love to their still bodies,

Simon Van Booy

#10. SoHo was called Hell's Hundred Acres because it was full of sweatshops - without fire escapes. Completely not up to code. Every once in a while, these buildings would burn and 26 Puerto Ricans would be killed.

Carl Andre

#11. Because the picture is called 'Veronica Guerin,' you expect a biopic. But it's really about the last two years of her life.

Cate Blanchett

#12. Many people say, "Oh, we have nothing against Puerto Ricans," and I wanted a way to unmask the people that say that they have nothing against gay people.

Luis Negron

#13. Why can't we have racism that's ignorant but nice? You could have stereotypes that are positive about race. You could say, "Those Chinese people, they can fly!" "You know about the Puerto Ricans? They're made of candy!"

Louis C.K.

#14. Baseball lasts as long as it takes. Like life, like love, baseball exists in real time.

Carol Tavris

#15. Whoever you hate will end up in your family. You don't like gays?
You're gonna have a gay son. You don't like Puerto Ricans? Your
daughter's gonna come home with Livin' La Vida Loca!

Chris Rock

#16. What do you think would have happened to me if a neighborhood of Puerto Ricans saw a scary-looking black dude trying to kick down the door of one of their fellow countrymen?

Charles Ramsey

#17. What's gone, and what's past help Should be past grief. - William Shakespeare

M.C. Beaton

#18. 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

#19. What switched me to films was the flood of American pictures into Paris after the Liberation.

Francois Truffaut

#20. I want to thank the pioneering women who years ago opened the doors of politics in Costa Rica. My government will be open to all Costa Ricans of good faith.

Laura Chinchilla

#21. Daft Punk wouldn't have normally fit into anything that was pop on the radio, but they just did it.

Danger Mouse

#22. The purpose of our practice is just to be yourself.

Shunryu Suzuki

#23. You trip over a word while carrying
a tray of vocabulary out to the pool
only to discover that broken glass
is a good topic.

Billy Collins

#24. It is quite understandable that Puerto Ricans seek to preserve a cultural sense of identity without separating politically from U.S. national sovereignty.

Dick Thornburgh

#25. The only way to retrieve a secret,once known, is to replace it with a lie.

Orson Scott Card

#26. I'm glad I escaped the clutches of those evil gnomes ... I'm talking, of course, about Puerto Ricans.

Thom Yorke

#27. I grew up in a neighborhood with blacks and Puerto Ricans and Italians, the whole gamut, so conveying unity has always meant a lot to me.

Carmine Giovinazzo

#28. When I heard Puerto Ricans in New York City, it sounded very strange. And the first time I heard someone from Spain, I thought they had a speech impediment!

Viggo Mortensen

#29. Do you have a husband concealed about you?

Georgette Heyer

#30. The Wilmington, Delaware, television station that bills itself as The Family Minded Station is Channel 69.

Jonathan Carroll

#31. The Puerto Ricans forming the ranks of the gallant 65th Infantry on the battlefields of Korea ... are writing a brilliant record of achievement in battle and I am proud indeed to have them in this command. I wish that we might have many more like them.

Douglas MacArthur

#32. Projects meant living with blacks and Puerto Ricans, but that's what we wanted. Living in the projects, we've met so many wonderful, wonderful people.

Yuri Kochiyama

#33. Art is about the moment we haven't experienced yet.

Sharon Pomerantz

#34. That at the end of the XX century many Puerto Ricans don't know who he is, nor acknowledge him as their Father is a real pity, that other Puerto Ricans that can never be compared to Dr. Betances be praised as illustrious Puerto Ricans, and his name is omitted makes one think why.

Armando Pacheco Matos

#35. Not only are Puerto Ricans citizens by birth, but one would be hard-pressed to find a Puerto Rican without a sister in New York or a son in Chicago, a cousin in Orlando or a daughter in Honolulu or Oklahoma City.

Luis A. Ferre