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 got a degree in math, from not a good school in Texas, and then I went to work as a software engineer. Just not glamorous at all.
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I wouldn't want to write a biography of anyone. I'd feel too inhibited by the facts and too much pressure to do the subject's life justice.
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There's not many models in the U.S. that have my depth - like, really dark skin - that are also plus size. Skin color has been one of those things we haven't really, really addressed on a large, widespread scale.
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The problem with not saving is it can often mean you're - a crisis away from, as we've seen in some cases, living in your car or losing your home or - having your lights shut off.
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The current state of music journalism is not bad, but it's not great at all. Some of the hip-hop stuff people get into is exciting, because there's a passion and there's something to explain to a more mainstream audience, so you get these passionate writers who want to express their love for rap and hip-hop, which is cool. But there are too many magazines, and the access has been diminished, so the quality of profiles has gone way down. Internet stuff can be really good, though. I like the dialogue between fans on the Internet. I think that's the best rock writing that's going on right now.
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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.
