Tricia Helfer Quotes

I've never gone for the smooth, suave Latin or French lover. That usually makes me think they're trying to pull one over on me.

Tricia Helfer

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• The most important thing Paris gave me was a perspective on Latin America. It taught me the differences between Latin America and Europe and among the Latin American countries themselves through the Latins I met there.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Important
  • American
  • America

• For fiction, I'm not particularly nationalistic. I'm not like the Hugo Chavez of Latin American letters, you know? I want people to read good work.

  

  Daniel Alarcon
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• Arab civilizations had been of an abstract nature, moral and intellectual rather than applied; and their lack of public spirit made their excellent private qualities futile. They were fortunate in their epoch: Europe had fallen barbarous; and the memory of Greek and Latin learning was fading from men's minds.

  

  T. E. Lawrence
  • Men
  • Nature
  • Learning

• There's lots of things you pull out lipstick for.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • You
  • Lipstick
  • Pull

• Also, there are now new laws in Brazil which create incentives for Argentine and Latin American films to be premiered and distributed in Brazil and vice versa.

  

  Walter Salles
  • American
  • New
  • Now

• Europe, Latin America, and the Caribbean share a cultural heritage based on centuries of common history. And what is more, we share the same values and world view. We believe in a world order that is based on cooperation, on regionalism, on multilateralism.

  

  Federica Mogherini
  • World
  • Believe
  • America

• I must try and break through the cliches about Latin America. Superpowers and other outsiders have fought over us for centuries in ways that have nothing to do with our problems. In reality we are all alone.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • America
  • Reality
  • Alone

• Growing up in Miami, I had all these great, strong influences. You know, being Cuban and the Latin influence, but also the strong hip-hop influence.

  

  Kat Dahlia
  • Up
  • Great
  • Strong

• People think of Latina women as being fiery and fierce, which is usually true. But I think the quality that so many Latinas possess is strength. I'm very proud to have Latin blood.

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • People
  • Women
  • True

• When I was a teenager, I worked in New Orleans for a chef named Paul Prudhomme. That was a very important time in my life as a chef. I developed my palate and learned a lot. And here I am now. I specialize in modern Mexican and contemporary Latin cuisines.

  

  Aaron Sanchez
  • Life
  • Time
  • Important

• Language is often changed by writers. We speak English today because Chaucer chose to write in the language of the common people, rather than the Latin or French used by those who were educated. James Joyce had an almost equally profound effect on language when he wrote about the inner self, rather than the outer self.

  

  Madeleine L'Engle
  • People
  • Today
  • English

• One night I'll be in Los Angeles and it'll be a Latin crowd, and then another night I'll go to Fresno and it'll be an all-black crowd. To me, that's the beauty of the music.

  

  Pitbull
  • Music
  • Night
  • Black

• It would be very ungrateful of me to turn my back or stop doing work in Latin America.

  

  Jaime Federico Said Camil Saldaña da Gama
  • Work
  • America
  • Stop

• I'm often mistaken for Spanish or Latin descent.

  

  Rita Ora
  • Spanish
  • Latin

• Somebody told me once I wasn't Latin enough, and that made me laugh.

  

  Chita Rivera
  • Latin

• Dancing is part of me now! The Latin dances are where my passions are.

  

  Jake Pavelka
  • Latin

• My Latin temper blows up pretty fast, but it goes down just as fast. Maybe that's why you seldom hear of ulcers in Latin America.

  

  Desiderio Alberto Arnaz y de Acha III
  • Up
  • Why
  • America

• According to the study, approximately 16.7 million U.S. workers born in Latin America had a combined gross income of $450 billion last year, of which 93 percent was spent locally.

  

  Luis Gutierrez
  • America
  • Study
  • Latin

• It's a no-news day so we've been tied to the behavior of Latin American markets and U.S. indexes. Volume's really low.

  

  Antonio Machado
  • American
  • Latin
  • Markets

• Obedience to God's will is the secret of spiritual knowledge and insight. It is not willingness to know, but willingness to DO (obey) God's will that brings certainty.

  

  Eric Liddell
  • Knowledge
  • Obedience
  • God's Will

• When I came to Congress, like our first panel, small business people, 64 percent of the people had health insurance. We'd buy it. Now, we're down to about 34 percent. That's why we have to do something on health care in this country because the cost is killing us.

  

  Bart Stupak
  • People
  • Country
  • Why

• Art is never the voice of a country, it is an even more precious thing, the voice of the individual, doing its best to speak, not comfort of any sort, but truth. And the art that speaks it most unmistakably, most directly, most variously, most fully, is fiction.

  

  Eudora Welty
  • Country
  • Art
  • Individual

• I've never gone for the smooth, suave Latin or French lover. That usually makes me think they're trying to pull one over on me.

  

  Tricia Helfer
  • Latin
  • Lover
  • Pull