Ricky Martin (Enrique Martín Morales) Quotes

When you take things too seriously, you get old. You have to be silly. Whenever people say, 'Hey, man, are you ever going to grow up?' That's when you know you're doing things right.

Ricky Martin

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• I was a regular hand when I was 7. I picked cotton. I drove tractors. Children grew up not thinking that this is what they must do. We thought this was the thing to do to help your family.

  

  B. B. King
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Children

• Anyone can wear any color. The question is about finding the right shade. There is a momentary trend to dark colors because when the financials are not that great, people go for black, navy and grey.

  

  Ozwald Boateng
  • People
  • Great
  • Black

• We're supposed to be an example of freedom, and if we are doing things that are injustice to people, then what is our statement?

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • People
  • Freedom
  • Injustice

• Of course we wish that more people involved in the leak of my true CIA identity had been prosecuted, but the system worked.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • People
  • True
  • Wish

• Journalists always explain that people are mad at them because they tell the truth, which is often unpleasant or uncomfortable to hear. However, they fail in situations where there is more than one truth.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • People
  • Truth
  • Always

• As murderous industrial magnates go, Alfred Nobel is right up there with Ray Kroc, franchiser of McDonald's.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Up
  • Go
  • Industrial

• The entertainment medium of film is particularly tuned to the present imaginations of people at large. A lot of fiction is intensely nostalgic.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • People
  • Present
  • Film

• What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up Like a raisin in the sun? Or does it explode?

  

  Langston Hughes
  • Up
  • Dream
  • Like

• Tolerance, openness to argument, openness to self-doubt, willingness to see other people's points of view - these are very liberal and enlightened values that people are right to hold, but we can't allow them to delude us to the point where we can't recognise people who are needlessly perpetrating human misery.

  

  Sam Harris
  • People
  • Doubt
  • Values

• When people connect to my work, it makes me feel great. A lot of that stuff is really deep, and when I play something and people feel what I feel, and use it in important situations in their lives, like at weddings or funerals, that's so powerful. It means I can connect with them on an important level.

  

  Xavier Rudd
  • People
  • Work
  • Great

• Anormal day looks like, you know, shower, put on the same jeans, the same tattered Gucci loafers I got at the thrift store, white socks, and my t-shirt and my very beat-up Helmut Lang blazer. I'm in the exact same outfit every day.

  

  Natasha Lyonne
  • Up
  • Day
  • Same

• I was scared, because I knew that in the political arena, you have to satisfy so many different types of people at once, and I wasn't sure that I could speak for everybody and be politically correct.

  

  Camryn Manheim
  • People
  • Different
  • Political

• You have good days and bad days.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Good
  • Bad
  • You

• Children up to the age of seven are like sponges. They look up to adults and copy what they do. So I thought if I could create a positive role model - a superhero, if you like - who moves around and has a balanced lifestyle - then they would be motivated to move more.

  

  Magnus Scheving
  • Up
  • Children
  • Age

• I motivate what I see in young people because we employ about forty thousand young people in our various Chick-fil-A units. Some of them come to work because they need to work; others just work because they just like to work. There's nothing wrong with that.

  

  S. Truett Cathy
  • People
  • Work
  • Young

• I think a first-time director always has to convince a lot of people that they're ready to do it.

  

  Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club
  • People
  • Time
  • Think

• When I'm playing a team sport, it's not about one individual, it's about everyone, from me to the other 23 people who were there, to all the support staff who've worked very hard behind the scenes.

  

  Gautam Gambhir
  • People
  • Team
  • Support

• Today, people idolize athletes and celebrities - and yes, highly successful and visionary business people like Bill Gates or Steve Jobs, but not the innovators who perhaps have not seen such high-flying levels of success. Can anyone name the inventors of GPS, which has such a huge impact on our lives today?

  

  Naveen Jain
  • People
  • Business
  • High

• I believe, for a long time, protracted wars test the will of any democracy, to be sure, and people will underwrite a protracted war if they see some progress. But if they don't see progress, and it appears to be futile and useless, then that political support begins to evaporate rather quickly.

  

  Jack Keane
  • People
  • Time
  • Believe

• And I think it's really easy for people to point out hypocrisy in people's lives.

  

  Elliot Page
  • People

• The reason some portraits don't look true to life is that some people make no effort to resemble their pictures.

  

  Salvador Dali
  • People
  • Life is
  • Pictures

• I have respect for my fellow journalists at the other networks, and I wish them all well. This is a tough business, so good for them.

  

  Megyn Kelly
  • Good
  • Business
  • Respect

• I don't know anybody as creative and unique and off the wall as Dia Frampton. She's always asking me, 'Am I too weird?' I just tell her, 'People don't think you're weird, they think you're cool.'

  

  Blake Shelton
  • People
  • She
  • Cool

• When you take things too seriously, you get old. You have to be silly. Whenever people say, 'Hey, man, are you ever going to grow up?' That's when you know you're doing things right.

  

  Ricky Martin
  • People
  • Up
  • Silly