Erik Estrada Quotes
My grandfather taught me generosity. He sold snow cones in Harlem. I went with him at 5 and he let me hand out the change and snow cones. I learned a lot in the couple of years that we did that.
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I almost laughed about the Machiavellian plans of the presidents of the United States.
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Both my parents are immigrants. I've seen different struggles they've had. There's a reason you don't see me using accents. I don't do impressions of my folks. When I'm doing a crappy impression of my folks, and you're laughing, I'm thinking, 'When my parents talk to people, when they walk away do people do impressions of them? Do they laugh?'
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I can tell you Donald Trump's products may not be made in America, but Donald Trump was made in America.
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I wanted to be a rock star when I grew up, or at least a singer/songwriter.
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I love fire. As a child I loved setting light to things. I'd always be in the forest putting matches to pieces of wood. I've always regarded fire as my friend.
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I actually have no style whatsoever. I'm the worst. I have people I talk to, and I say, 'Please tell me how to dress because I don't know what I'm doing.' The biggest thing for me is my mom. I'm like, 'Mom, do I look good?' If she says yes, I'm good to go.
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I am not trying to be a historian and a dramatist; I'm a dramatist, a dramatic historian, or one who does a dramatic interpretation of history.
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Music is my balance... center of my life.
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250,000 people turned up in Dublin to cheer me on an open-topped bus along O'Connell St after my world title winning fight in 1985. I'll never forget the sea of smiling faces that greeted me that day.
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Zef is the underbelly of the Afrikaans culture, but it also, like, is Afrikaans culture.
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True love ennobles and dignifies the material labors of life; and homely services rendered for love's sake have in them a poetry that is immortal.
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What is it but a low form of prayer when he or Les or anybody else God-damns everything? I can't believe God recognizes any form of blasphemy. It's a prissy word invented by the clergy.
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Orpheus melted the heart of Persephone, but I never had yours I followed you back to the end of the path, but I never found the door
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It is well-known that the friend of a conqueror is but the last victim.
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If you have someone who is paying 88 percent of her income on rent, and we have laws that allow a landlord to evict a tenant who falls behind under those circumstances, eviction becomes an inevitability.
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I'm terrible with decisions. And I can't make myself do something I don't like. I can't knuckle under.
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My job is all about defending the people that I play.
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The piano is the X factor. People have a tough time following the structures when there's no piano there, spelling it out. It makes it more easily understood, particularly to people who don't know as much about music.
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I can't play guitar if I blow my arm out.
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The Internet is the vehicle we're driving to share our visuals, outrage, and ideas around the world.
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More than 100 years after he first appeared, Holmes remains the template for the fictional detective.
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There are two singles I did with Noah Breakfast, ["Talkin Greezy" and "New Phone (Who Dis),"] which was a cool experience. So it's cool either way, I think. It depends on the relationship you have with the other person - not everybody is going to work the same way.
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I'm glad to have a couple a quid in my pocket to be able to enjoy life.
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My grandfather taught me generosity. He sold snow cones in Harlem. I went with him at 5 and he let me hand out the change and snow cones. I learned a lot in the couple of years that we did that.
