Famous Quotes & Sayings

Salma Hayek

I love to cook when I have the time. I don't cook French or Mexican food with exact recipes. I just go to the supermarket and buy things that look good, and I mix it all together and invent something. Ninety-five percent of the time, I'm lucky. Sometimes not so lucky, and I say, 'Let's go out to dinner.'

Salma Hayek

I had to endure the worst time of all in terms of racial discrimination in Hollywood when I first started out. It was inconcievable to American directors and producers that a Mexican woman could have a lead role.

Sandra Cisneros

I usually say Latina, Mexican-American or American Mexican, and in certain contexts, Chicana, depending on whether my audience understands the term or not.

Linda Ronstadt

I grew up singing Mexican music, and that's based on indigenous Mexican rhythms. Mexican music also has an overlay of West African music, based on huapango drums, and it's kind of like a 6/8 time signature, but it really is a very syncopated 6/8. And that's how I attack vocals.

Lee Trevino

You're Mexican until you make money and then you're Spanish.

Joe Arpaio

Now everybody is mafia. You got the Russian mafia, the Mexican mafia. Everybody is mafia these days.

Gael Garcia Bernal

When confronted with a clear definition of what it is to be Mexican, we encounter ourselves in a never ending allegory of mixes and chaos.

George Lopez

We're Mexican not Mexican't!

Jake Peavy

This Mexican team, they're not running out slop. They've got proven major-league talent.

Noam Chomsky

International relations bears more than a slight resemblance to the mafia.

Fidel Castro

This mafia not only operates from Miami. It has set up an organization that operates from Mexico, using remote places for new routes.

Piero Grasso

With this arrest, the Mafia has been beheaded.

Douglas Horton

Desperation is like stealing from the Mafia: you stand a good chance of attracting the wrong attention.

Davy Jones

The Monkees are like the mafia. You're in for life. Nobody gets out.

Davy Jones

Once you're in, you're in. It's like the Mafia. Once a Monkee, always a Monkee.

Nora Roberts

And still she felt more confident at the prospect of taking on the Russian Mafia than she did attending a backyard barbecue.

James Carafano

You don't need to buy a $7 billion company to penetrate maritime security. The Mafia doesn't buy FedEx to smuggle.

Gerald Celente

The IMF is the International Mafia Federation. They're the loansharks of last resort.

Richard Louv

These days, unplugged places are getting hard to find.

Wellington Mara

These days I'm pretty much a businessman.

Miguel Syjuco

It kills me how these days everyone has clinical justification for their strangeness.

Eric Topol

I am prescribing a lot more apps than medications these days.

Christopher Plummer

I would rather not know about how one gets parts in movies these days.

Ethel Merman

Who's happy these days?

Jack Levine

Impulses are hard to come by these days.

Carl Rogers

With the price of life these days, you've got to get everything for free you can.