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

• When you say you're not a feminist, if feminism hadn't existed, and you didn't live in a feminist world, you wouldn't be saying that, because you'd be too busy scrubbing out the toilets in back while cooking up your husband's tea and dying in childbirth at the age of 34.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Up
  • World
  • Live

• I love feminine soft shades for summers - I like pastels and bright hues, too. I like summer dresses and tank tops; I think they never go out of style. As much as I'm happy with Western wear for red carpet and social dos, I also like Indian ethnic wear for special occasions.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Love
  • Happy
  • Style

• It's just cool for a girl to be able to do her own thing. I do a lot of movies, and I'm very lucky, and I'm not complaining. But in movies, alongside big action men, we've always got to take a step back and let the men shine.

  

  Maggie Q
  • Men
  • Girl
  • Action

• Y'know, I think, inherently, when you hear something like a teenage narrative come into play, even the idea that it's being called 'teenage' is a notion that it's being reduced to a problem that's not quite adult. That's a problematic thing to say about a narrative that could actually be dangerous, could be hurtful, could be upsetting.

  

  Cole Sprouse

• There is no rustic so rude but that, if he dreams or fancies anything, it must be the whisper of the Holy Ghost, and he himself a prophet.

  

  Martin Luther
  • Dreams
  • Whisper
  • Holy Ghost

• 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