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I'm from Puerto Rico. I know heat. -- Amaury Nolasco
You know what really fries my Puerto rican pancakes? -- Mark Gungor
I don't call myself Latin, I call myself Puerto Rican. -- Rosie Perez
My mom's Puerto Rican. That's why I'm so lively and colorful. -- Aubrey Plaza
Yet, individuals and corporations in Puerto Rico pay no federal income tax. -- Dick Thornburgh
Stop throwing us all together like some sort of Puerto Ricaminican Tex-Mex buffet. -- Al Madrigal
My heart is half Puerto Rican, half Canadian. That is how I feel. -- Roberto Alomar
I grew up dancing salsa - you know, a traditional Puerto Rican dance. -- Gina Rodriguez
They (the people of Puerto Rico) are truly the sweetest people on earth. -- Johnny Depp
Federal program and services outlay in Puerto Rico is approximately $10 billion per year. -- Dick Thornburgh
American imperialism is often traced to the takeover of Cuba, Puerto Rico, and Hawaii in 1898. -- Noam Chomsky
I'm proud of who I am, and I'm proud I grew up in Puerto Rico. -- Raul Labrador
Over 90 percent of parents in Puerto Rico want their children to be totally fluent in English. -- Luis Fortuno
The first Latin music that blew my mind was bumba, which was a Puerto Rican beat. -- David Johansen
A black, a Puerto Rican and a Mexican are in a car. Who's driving? The police. -- Muhammad Ali
The Puerto Rican doctor, who wrote all his prescriptions with spray paint. Never got a dinner! -- Red Buttons
I had such a great upbringing in Puerto Rico, and it was just a very normal life. -- Roselyn Sanchez
We're going to Puerto Rico, where we're gonna close. And we're so excited, we can't see straight. -- Chita Rivera
I'm glad I escaped the clutches of those evil gnomes... I'm talking, of course, about Puerto Ricans. -- Thom Yorke
I like them brown, yellow, Puerto Rican, or Haitian Name is Phife Dawg from the Zulu nation -- Phife Dawg
I am willing to bet that there are some Puerto Ricans who don't know about [their status]. -- Sonia Sotomayor
You know, you may not be born in Puerto Rico, but Puerto Rican is definitely born in you. -- Rosie Perez
Without question, so many people, throughout my life, never think of Puerto Rico as part of the United States. -- Sonia Sotomayor
I'm a little bit of everything. Sometimes people think I'm not Puerto Rican, because my name doesn't sound Spanish. -- Joan Smalls
I didn't know I had this many fans in Puerto Rico. I'm going to carry this memory to my grave. -- Allen Iverson
The Puerto Rican fans have supported me and it means a lot. I'm a Puerto Rican just like they are. -- Danny Garcia
What was the competition? Well, I remember this Puerto Rican who came out in a short skirt and a gun. -- Sarah Vaughan
Dick Dart emerged from the ether during a flight from New York with my wife and children to Puerto Rico. -- Peter Straub
Drugs in a disco are great for white people because it allows them to feel more Puerto Rican while dancing. -- Dov Davidoff
When I left Chicago, people said, 'Careful with that Texas heat'. I'm like, 'I'm from Puerto Rico. I know heat. -- Amaury Nolasco
Puerto Ricans are many colors - we are Spanish, we're French, we're Thai, Indian, we're almost black, some of us. -- Rita Moreno
When I left Chicago, people said, 'Careful with that Texas heat'. I'm like, 'I'm from Puerto Rico. I know heat.' -- Amaury Nolasco
But the only comparison that I want to Lenny Bruce is that I'm funny. I'm Freddie Prinze, Puerto Rican all the way. -- Freddie Prinze
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
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
When I married Wilnelia, one of the first things I wanted to know about Puerto Rico was the quality of the golf courses. -- Bruce Forsyth
I like to make Arroz con Gandules, rice with pigeon peas. My husband loves it. It's a Puerto Rican dish my mother taught me. -- Essence Atkins
Peter Minuet, who said to the Indians in modern-day Manhattan, Will you accept a check from a Puerto Rican bank? Never got a dinner! -- Red Buttons
Puerto Rico has two divergent paths forward. After a reasonable transition period, it could become a state. Or it can become a sovereign nation. -- Pedro Pierluisi
Teen Beach Movie' was a lot of fun because we were in Puerto Rico on an island - you can't even call it work! -- Ross Lynch
'Teen Beach Movie' was a lot of fun because we were in Puerto Rico on an island - you can't even call it work! -- Ross Lynch
We took dancehall and hip-hop and mixed it in the middle. I knew we had something. I thought, 'This sound is Puerto Rican sound.' -- Daddy Yankee
You can't take no Chinese man and give him no Puerto Rican woman and talking like they're in love and emotionally in love and physically. -- Muhammad Ali
I was aware that my nomination was drawing a lot of attention, particularly in the Latino world, not just in Puerto Rico. It was touching. -- Sonia Sotomayor
I like to cook Puerto Rican food. That's what I grew up on: rice, beans, meat, some Italian-American food. I know my way around the kitchen. -- Jennifer Lopez
I want people to hear musicians like Joe Cuba. He has done things to whole masses of Puerto Rican people. The music is fantastic and important. -- David Bowie
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
Back then, Lisa Lisa was somebody that I liked. She was Puerto Rican, and I related to her somewhat. I was a little bit of a fan. -- Angie Martinez
Javy [Baez] grew up in Puerto Rico, played a lot of baseball as a youth, played a lot of winter ball. He's been taught properly and well. -- Joe Maddon
If you are black, if you are Puerto Rican or Hispanic, be proud of that. But don't let it become a problem. Let it become somebody else's problem. -- Colin Powell
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
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
If Francoise Sagan hadn't written a book called A Chateau in Sweden, I would certainly write a short story called A Chateau in Puerto Rico. And I may yet. -- Truman Capote
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
Same way I have my entire life. Keep my family and friends close. My Latino friends close. I visit the island [Puerto Rico] as often as I humanly can. -- Sonia Sotomayor
My mother's Puerto Rican and my father's Russian-Jewish, so we consider ourselves to be Jewricans or Puertojews. I think Puertojew sounds like a kosher bathroom, so I prefer Jewrican. -- Rachel Ticotin
Puerto Rico is one of those places you can be as quiet or as crazy as you want, because there's so much nightlife. I have to take the craziness carefully. -- Bruce Forsyth
I think I became funny because I grew up in the Bronx. I was small and weak and Jewish instead of large and fierce and Puerto Rican. You need something. -- Dave Barry
When I was 11, I went to Puerto Rico for a month to stay with my grandmother. To see the way people lived there and experience my own culture was wonderful. -- Andrea Navedo
Being Puerto Rican, born and raised on the streets of New York, you go, 'Wow, you're still friends with your ex, man? Really? That's weird.' I don't play that -- Marc Anthony
Being Puerto Rican, born and raised on the streets of New York, you go, 'Wow, you're still friends with your ex, man? Really? That's weird.' I don't play that. -- Marc Anthony
In historical and constitutional terms, the recent political status vote in Puerto Rico was a necessary but obviously not decisive step on the road of self-determination leading to full self-government. -- Dick Thornburgh
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
I am eternally grateful to all of the Latino groups outside of the Puerto -Rican community, but including the Puerto-Rican community, who came to support me during the process [of nomination]. -- Sonia Sotomayor
I'm always talking about the issue of Puerto Rico.I also spoke about it on the Senate floor, and I think it should be given the importance, the priority it deserves. -- Marco Rubio
You want a lesson? I'll give you a lesson. How about a geography lesson? My father's from Puerto Rico. My mother's from El Salvador. And neither one of those is Mexico. -- Jennifer Esposito
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
However, the sovereignty of the states is constitutionally defined and recognized, while the powers of the local government in Puerto Rico are defined by, and subject to alteration under, federal statutory law. -- Dick Thornburgh
If U.S. national sovereignty continues, it is only as a state that Puerto Rico will have permanent 10th Amendment powers over its non-federal affairs, as well as voting power in Congress. -- Dick Thornburgh
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
Puerto Rico is the perfect meeting place between Spain, the country I come from, and America, the country where I now belong. The meeting point of two worlds where magic can happen. -- Jose Andres Puerta
My parents always talk about Puerto Rico. My dad's whole family lives in Puerto Rico. My great grandma lives in Puerto Rico and I got to meet her a couple years ago. -- Danny Garcia
I was very skinny and very lanky and kind of awkward. In Puerto Rico, everybody is a little more voluptuous, with these beautiful bodies, and there I was, the skinny, lanky girl. -- Joyce Giraud
I choose to be American, I choose to live in the Lower East Side of Manhattan, I choose to have Puerto Rican/Jewish neighbors, and I choose to maintain my Chinese identity. -- Eddie Huang
I hope I will live to see a final meeting of the minds between Puerto Rico and statehood, but [even] if I don't live that long, I am certain it will happen. -- Luis A. Ferre
My brother, Mario, is in show business and so are all my cousins on my dad's side. We come from a family of musicians. My grandmother's sister in Puerto Rico plays five instruments. -- Irene Cara
I used to watch my grandmother make fancy, Julia Child-style beef bourguignon. And growing up in New York City, I was exposed to many cultures. I experimented with Puerto Rican and Jamaican food. -- Debi Mazar
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
That is why, with optimism instead of fear, all those who want to see Puerto Rico's status resolved should seek the truth about each option, including the upside and the downside of each. -- Dick Thornburgh
In Texas, if your name is Carlos, you're a Mexican. In Florida, you're a Cuban. In New York, you're a Puerto Rican. And I come here and I find out I'm an Eskimo. -- Carlos Mencia
In terms of the revolution, I believe that the revolution will be a revolution of dispossessed people in this country: that's the Mexican American, the Puerto Rican American, the American Indian, and black people. -- H. Rap Brown
Once I walked out of my house into to the Puerto Rican Day parade. It was usually a five-minute walk to work, but that day it took me a half-hour to get to 30 Rock. -- Jason Sudeikis
Internal self-government under a local constitution was authorized by Congress and approved by the residents in 1952, but federal law is supreme in Puerto Rico and residents do not have voting representation in the Congress. -- Dick Thornburgh
We have a pride of who we are as Latinos, regardless if we're Puerto Rican, Dominican, Venezuelan, and we're very proud of our customs and our history and our traditions and who we are. -- Juan Luis Guerra
My mother was born in San Juan. So I'm Puerto Rican, Jewish, colored and married to a white woman. When I move into a neighborhood, people start running four ways at the same time. -- Sammy Davis, Jr.
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
I said I deserved a home fight, either Philly or Puerto Rico, since I'm always going to someone else's place to fight. Everyone thought it was a great idea to go back to Puerto Rico. -- Danny Garcia
I had the pleasure, as Robin said, to live a childhood dream as many young Americans and Puerto Rican children live that play youth baseball. And I feel honored and very thankful for that opportunity. -- Nolan Ryan
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
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
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
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
Apparently tired of waiting for clear direction from Congress, the people of Puerto Rico have used the tools provided by their own local constitution to schedule a vote for Dec. 13 on the status of the island. -- Dick Thornburgh
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.
We are getting thousands and thousands of professionals, very highly-trained people, from Puerto Rico who are now living in Florida, and who have obviously contributed a lot to this state, but the island is losing that population. -- Marco Rubio
My mother's mother is Jewish and African, so I guess that would be considered Creole. My mother's father was Cherokee Indian and something else. My dad's mother's Puerto Rican and black, and his father was from Barbados. -- Meagan Good
I love all Puerto Rican food. I love rice and beans. I like anything with steak, chicken, pork. But I like chocolate and potato chips, too. I eat that when my wife goes away and isn't looking. -- Jorge Posada
I'd work to make it hip again to spend time in our fabled and fabulous land. But with a Puerto Rican father and a Jewish mother, I would probably be better suited as mayor of New York. -- Geraldo Rivera
But being on location and shooting, whether its in Puerto Rico or Atlanta, it always reminds me of how really cool my job can be. Interacting with the fans is one of the best parts of it. -- Dwayne Johnson
Puerto Rico loses out on billions of dollars annually because it is treated unequally under a range of federal programs, including tax credits available to millions of households in the States that do not pay federal income taxes. -- Pedro Pierluisi
Fifty thousand people in Mexico have been murdered. Puerto Penasco, 60 miles south of our border, just had five people and a police officer killed. That is like part of Arizona, and it is spilling over into our state. -- Jan Brewer
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
My mother likes what I cook, but doesn't think it's French. My wife is Puerto Rican and Cuban, so I eat rice and beans. We have a place in Mexico, but people think I'm the quintessential French chef. -- Jacques Pepin
I am Puerto Rican. I think Latinas are sexy, and being one, it has influenced a lot of my style, but being an official Los Angelite, this town has influenced most of my daily style, which is relaxed & easy. -- Nadine Velazquez
I'm your idol, the highest title, Numero Uno, I'm not a Puerto Rican, but I'm speakin so that you know, And understand, I got the gift of speech, And it's a blessin, so listen to the lesson I preach... -- Special Ed
I got a message from one of my friends in Puerto Rico, who said, 'Sonia, there's nobody working in Puerto Rico - they're all glued to the television'. And I got a similar message from a friend in Spain. -- Sonia Sotomayor
I think crisis starts with the government of Puerto Rico. It has to take measures to solve the fiscal problems that it has, which are very serious. It's very basic: it's the same thing that is happening in Washington. -- Marco Rubio
Puerto Rico has a stray dog problem. Tens of thousands of homeless canines - hundreds of thousands, by some estimates - live and die on the streets and beaches all over this Caribbean island of almost four million people. -- Juliana Hatfield
Baby names are a big debate in my family. Like true Colombian and Puerto Rican families, everybody and their mother is putting their two cents in - everything from Jose to Francisco to Victorio to Rain has been suggested. -- Paula Garces
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
Jesse Jackson's wife was arrested in Puerto Rico while protesting the naval bombings there. Jesse said he was holding a meeting with four of his secretaries to decide what to do and that these meetings could run well into the night. -- Jay Leno
It's going to be crazy. I'm guessing when we play against the Dominicans, half the field will be Dominican fans and half will be Puerto Rican fans. With all the big-time players in the World Classic, it's going to be huge. -- Carlos Beltran
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
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
[The Land] is a film that just happens to be directed and written by a Puerto Rican guy with a black dad. It seemed like a very natural, human interaction between people who all just came from one common cesspool of bad luck. -- Erykah Badu
Actually, I am asking for this: for something to be done. I think that if it had been one of the 50 states, something would have already been done. Unfortunately, you know, Puerto Rico is a territory. Very often they forget about Puerto Rico. -- Marco Rubio
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
Yet, Puerto Rico's 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
After four centuries of Spanish rule, Puerto Rico was ceded to the United States in 1898. Residents were granted U.S. citizenship in 1917, and the federal government has allowed Puerto Rico to exercise authority over its local affairs in a manner similar to the 50 states. -- Pedro Pierluisi
I'm very used to hurricanes. I'm from Puerto Rico and we have 3 or 4 a year. When you have no power, no light, no email, no place to go, you realize who your loved ones are and where you are in your life at that moment. -- Luis D. Ortiz

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