Nicky Jam (Nick Rivera Caminero) Quotes

I love to see people's faces change when they hear me speak English and they realize how far I have been able to go.

Nicky Jam

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• Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Wisdom
  • Speak
  • Tongue

• I think it was a good challenge for me to get my reactions across without being able to speak.

  

  Verne Troyer
  • Good
  • Think
  • Challenge

• Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Country
  • Love
  • Man

• Too many jazz pianists limit themselves to a personal style, a trademark, so to speak. They confine themselves to one type of playing.

  

  Oscar Peterson
  • Style
  • Speak
  • Jazz

• I don't seek the counsel of God. God doesn't speak to me on what I should or shouldn't do.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • God
  • Me
  • Speak

• I didn't grow up around all white people; I never wanted to gentrify hip-hop, I've never wanted to speak to an all-white audience.

  

  G-Eazy
  • People
  • Up
  • Speak

• In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Men
  • May
  • Truth

• I speak two languages, Body and English.

  

  Mae West
  • English
  • Body
  • Speak

• Once I was condemned to three months' absolute silence. As I could not speak, I wrote a book.

  

  Nana Mouskouri
  • Book
  • Silence
  • Speak

• I read French much better than I speak.

  

  Cara Black
  • Better
  • Speak
  • Read

• He would still see it as his duty to shut up and get on with it, not cause any trouble. In our own time we've made a hero of the rebel, and it's more heroic to speak up.

  

  Eddie Campbell
  • Up
  • Time
  • Speak

• We do not have many intellectuals who can speak out for us internationally. We have no writers who are recognized, respected and loved outside the Arab world.

  

  Tahar Ben Jelloun
  • World
  • Speak
  • Loved

• Sometimes I'll go into a shop and speak in a different accent to see if I can pull it off. But then somebody will be like, 'Where did you say you were from again...?' And then I panic, and my accent dissolves, and I pretend like I wasn't doing it in the first place.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • Different
  • Doing
  • Speak

• Russians are not a very friendly people. It's hard to get them to speak nicely to the customers. It's just not in their culture.

  

  Maelle Gavet
  • People
  • Culture
  • Speak

• When you sing in English and Spanish, it's two completely different forms of expression and... even the people who don't speak Spanish love to hear me sing in Spanish.

  

  Gloria Estefan Miami Sound Machine
  • People
  • Different
  • English

• I don't think of myself as a folk singer per se, but I really like blues and string-band music. When I started listening to records when II've been writing about growing old for some time, really from the beginning of my career. It's something I'm apparently hung up about and now that I am old, hopefully I speak about it with some authority. was a teenager, the folk boom was going on.

  

  Loudon Wainwright III
  • Up
  • Time
  • Music

• Phyllis Schlafly speaks for all American women who oppose equal rights for themselves.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • Women
  • American
  • Speak

• If only, if only, the moon speaks no reply; Reflecting the sun and all that's gone by. Be strong my weary wolf, turn around boldly. Fly high, my baby bird, My angel, my only

  

  Louis Sachar
  • High
  • Strong
  • Baby

• The world taught women nothing skillful and then said her work was valueless. It permitted her no opinions and said she did not know how to think. It forbade her to speak in public and said the sex had no orators. It denied her the schools, and said the sex had no genius. It robbed her of every vestige of responsibility, and then called her weak. It taught her that every pleasure must come as a favor from men and when, to gain it, she decked herself in paint and fine feathers, as she had been taught to do, it called her vain.

  

  Carrie Chapman Catt
  • World
  • School
  • Responsibility

• Dwight is a sad clown. You've seen those paintings of sad clown.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • You
  • Sad
  • Clown

• I'm a light sleeper. I've never been one of those people who can put their head down and suddenly everything disappears. Nighttime is the time I get most scared, anxious or worried. In those darker moments before waking or sleeping is when I feel most, I don't know, I can turn on myself, and my imagination can take me dark places.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • People
  • Time
  • Light

• I love to see people's faces change when they hear me speak English and they realize how far I have been able to go.

  

  Nicky Jam
  • Speak
  • Realizing