Jenni Rivera Quotes
Mexican music runs through my veins. I loved it. Growing up, my father didn't allow us to listen to English music at home. That's all I heard. I had no choice.
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As with the onset of sudden celebrity, for the newly rich, the world often becomes a darker, narrower, less generous place; a paradox that elicits scant sympathy, but is nonetheless true.
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Loyalty will not permit envy, hate, and uncharitableness to creep into our public thinking.
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I'm from New York, so I'm not a big driver.
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I always say that I'm at my best when there's no example of what the character is supposed to be. I thrive when there's not much and I have to create it.
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I don't have business with any politicians.
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I call Washington 'the city of the perishable.'
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Once a song's out there, it's no longer mine. And that's the whole purpose of music: to belong to people.
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Before every show, we get into a circle, hold hands, and someone makes a speech. Most bands are too cool for that.
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What can you do? You're never going to be - I'm sure there are people out there who think Cindy Crawford isn't pretty.
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The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.
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A museum should not just be a place for fancy paintings but should be a place where we can communicate our lives through our everyday objects.
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What I particularly like about Broadway is the camaraderie and the friendship of other people in other shows. Everybody knows you're opening and cares about you. There's a real village atmosphere.
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For some reason, I spent my early thirties reading as much postwar Hungarian fiction as I could get my hands on.
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When I found this opportunity to answer the ad, I got the job and I've been there ever since.
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The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.
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I decided it was time to pay tribute to my own songs, to give them the opportunity to mature and be adult.
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I'm not musically inclined. It blows my mind that people can write music. I don't have that talent; I look up to the people that do.
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You can't get there alone. People have to help you, and I do believe in karma. I believe in paybacks. You get people to help you by telling the truth, by being earnest.
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I sort of missed one big thing, to touch first base. I hope I didn't act foolish, but this is history.
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We've got to protect the music and make sure it never gets exploited.
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I could sit there and eat pasta all day long and not worry about it when I was younger, and now I really have to focus on making sure I set a good example for my kids.
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I had always loved expressionist painting, like every European. In fact I admired it all the more because these were precisely the paintings despised by my father's generation.
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My father's music is all I remember from my childhood.
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Mexican music runs through my veins. I loved it. Growing up, my father didn't allow us to listen to English music at home. That's all I heard. I had no choice.
