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The grandmother, the mother, the worker, the student, the intellectual, the professional, the unemployed, everybody identified with the songs because they were descriptions of life in the city.


Ruben Blades

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KELLY JONES From the point of view of a spiritual life, it is not what you do that matters most, but the way in ...
THE MOTHER Dive into the river of the present, but don't thrash about, go with the flow.
JIM GENOVESE When you live in the present, the past is forgotten & the future takes care of itself.
MANDY HALE She said 'Over my dead body!' so I took her at her word.
DIANA WYNNE JONES The end of the world is a strange concept. The world is always ending, and the end is always being a...
NEIL GAIMAN What is the Other?" they ask.
The Other is the one who taught me whatI should be like, but not ...
PAULO COELHO Hail to you gods, on that day of the great reckoning. Behold me, I have come to you, without sin, wi...
THE BOOK OF THE DEAD When a man takes one step toward God, God takes more steps toward that man than there are sands in t...
THE WORK OF THE CHARIOT Look, my friends!' he called. 'Here's a pretty hobbit-skin to wrap an elven princeling in! If it wer...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN The universe seeks equilibriums; it prefers to disperse energy, disrupt organization, and maximize c...
SIDDHARTHA MUKHERJEE Here was one with an air of high nobility such as Aragorn at times revealed, less high perhaps, yet ...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN All day long you sit and sew,
Stitch life down for fear it grow,

Stitch life down fo...
EDITH SITWELL It's not about what it is, it's about what it can become.
DR. SEUSS And so castles made of sand fall in the sea, eventually.
JIMI HENDRIX Savor the moment. Set a goal that you value and plan the steps to of getting there in a way that you...
TERENCE T. GORSKI She herself is a haunted house. She does not possess herself; her ancestors sometimes come and peer ...
ANGELA CARTER The profound ability to use aural and written language has enabled our species to collectively explo...
KATHERINE VUCICEVIC No, sweet one. See, my precious: if we has it, then we can escape, even from Him, eh? Perhaps we gro...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Life begins somewhere and ends somewhere with time but to get somewhere with the life you have depen...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH From the Kindle Book Reflections in the Mirror of Life:
“In a slum somewhere in India
As...
THE PROPHET OF LIFE For my generation, the bomber jacket is like a replacement for the suit jacket. It's a piece tha...
THE WEEKND I'm the most boring person to talk to.
THE WEEKND Fish die when they are out of water, and people die without law and order.
THE TALMUD He who promises runs in debt.
THE TALMUD For me, bomber jackets are smart, but they are also street and have a lot of attitude.
THE WEEKND Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not ...
THE BIBLE Who is a wise man? He who learns of all men.
THE TALMUD Who is wise? One who learns from all.
THE TALMUD The end result of wisdom is... good deeds.
THE TALMUD Starting a band is the easy part. Once you've formed the band, you have to tell a story, and tha...
THE EDGE Join the company of lions rather than assume the lead among foxes.
THE TALMUD No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.
THE TALMUD If one man says to thee, Thou art a donkey, pay no heed. If two speak thus, purchase a saddle.
THE TALMUD Every blade of grass has its angel that bends over it and whispers, grow, grow.
THE TALMUD This is the punishment of a liar: he is not believed, even when he speaks the truth.
THE TALMUD Prayer carries us half way to God, fasting brings us to the door of His palace, and alms-giving proc...
THE KORAN When you teach your son, you teach your son's son.
THE TALMUD This is the sum of all -- righteousness. In causing pleasure or in giving pain, in doing good or inj...
THE MAHABHARTA The sun will set without thy assistance.
THE TALMUD A person will be called to account on Judgment Day for every permissible thing he might have enjoyed...
THE TALMUD Thy friend has a friend, and thy friend's friend has a friend; be discreet.
THE TALMUD Everyone whose deeds are more than his wisdom, his wisdom endures; and everyone whose wisdom is more...
THE TALMUD Loving kindness is greater than laws; and the charities of life are more than all ceremonies.
THE TALMUD The deeper the sorrow the less the tongue has it.
THE TALMUD A quotation at the right moment is like bread to the famished.
THE TALMUD To break an oral agreement which is not legally binding is morally wrong
THE TALMUD Man has three friends on whose company he relies. First, wealth - which goes with him only while goo...
THE TALMUD Join the company of lions rather than assume the lead among foxes.
THE TALMUD The doctrines of religion are resolved into carefulness; carefulness into vigorousness; vigorousnes...
THE TALMUD Greater even than the pious man is he who eats that which is the fruit of his own toil; for scriptur...
THE TALMUD Sin is sweet in the beginning, but bitter in the end.
THE TALMUD A wrathful man stirreth up strife: but he that is slow to anger appeaseth strife.
THE BIBLE Know Ye not ... that the spirit of God dwelleth within you?
THE BIBLE If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before [it hated] you.
THE BIBLE Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise: Which having no guide, overseer, or ru...
THE BIBLE Surely the serpent will bite without enchantment; and a babbler is no better. The words of a wise ma...
THE BIBLE A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver.
THE BIBLE Strength and honor are her clothing: and she shall rejoice in time to come.
THE BIBLE And we are witnesses of all things which he did both in the land of the Jews, and in Jerusalem; whom...
THE BIBLE And they said one to another, Did not our heart burn within us while he talked with us by the way, a...
THE BIBLE But Jesus beheld them, and said unto them, With men this is impossible; but with God all things are ...
THE BIBLE Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee: rebuke a wise man, and he will love thee.
THE BIBLE A wise man is strong; yea, a man of knowledge increaseth strength.
THE BIBLE Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!
THE BIBLE Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding. For the merchandise of...
THE BIBLE When wisdom entereth into thine heart, and knowledge is pleasant unto thy soul; Discretion shall pre...
THE BIBLE For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He taketh the wise in their...
THE BIBLE The words of wise men are heard in quiet more than the cry of him that ruleth among fools. Wisdom is...
THE BIBLE So that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom, and apply thine heart to understanding; Yea, if thou cri...
THE BIBLE Wisdom is the principle thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding.
THE BIBLE Wisdom is better than weapons of war: but one sinner destroyeth much good.
THE BIBLE A wise man's heart is at his right hand; but a fool's heart at his left.
THE BIBLE There was a little city, and few men within it; and there came a great king against it, and besieged...
THE BIBLE And when he was entered into a ship, his disciples followed him. And, behold, there arose a great te...
THE BIBLE Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see t...
THE BIBLE He who works his land will have abundant food.
THE BIBLE God helps those who persevere.
THE KORAN Live well. It is the greatest revenge.
THE TALMUD And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords...
THE BIBLE The highest form of wisdom is kindness
THE TALMUD The burden is equal to the horse's strength.
THE TALMUD Be eager to fulfill the smallest duty and flee from transgression for one duty includes another and ...
THE TALMUD Beware of too much laughter, for it deadens the mind and produces oblivion.
THE TALMUD Sheep follow sheep.
THE TALMUD Live well. It is the greatest revenge.
THE TALMUD When you're traveling constantly, every day you become inspired, and it shows in my work, sonica...
THE WEEKND This is our world now... the world of the electron and the switch, the beauty of the baud. We make u...
THE MENTOR For an Ethiopian mother, if you have a chubby kid, it means you're doing something good.
THE WEEKND The Joker that Christopher Nolan created in 'The Dark Knight' had the scar across his mouth,...
THE WEEKND 'Trilogy' was more of a claustrophobic body of work. Before it was released, I hadn't le...
THE WEEKND The big cop-out would be to accept popularity rather than opting to try to create potent work. It...
THE EDGE It wasn’t that everything was going my way, but I began to believe that the way it was going was p...
THE HIPPIE Take that rage, put it on a page, take the page to the stage, blow the roof off the place.
THE SCRIPT It was strange that in some sort of Jeffrey Dahmer meets Ghandi way I was
able to love myself f...
THE HIPPIE I don't think I'd ever apologise for music I make, no.
THE WEEKND My closet is like Bart Simpson's.
THE WEEKND I knew the second I finished the first record - 'House Of Balloons' - and had all this mater...
THE WEEKND Prince turned experimental music into pop music. 'When Doves Cry,' the whole 'Purple Rai...
THE WEEKND 'House of Balloons' was special because I had no deadlines, and nobody knew me, so there wer...
THE WEEKND

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RUBEN BLADES And, he'd seen me in Panama, and he talked about maybe doing something in New York so I hooked i...
RUBEN BLADES Basically, I would like to be considered for roles that are well-written. I think that part of the p...
RUBEN BLADES Tango was very popular in Panama at the time when I was growing up. In the Fifties in Panama, the ra...
RUBEN BLADES I was never particularly a part of the following of tango; I just liked it... most of all, I recogni...
RUBEN BLADES There's something about the tango that brings even more emotion out of the lyrics.
RUBEN BLADES I was a kid, and I remember my mother singing. She was also a radio soap opera actress, but my mothe...
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JOAN BLADES We put together a one-sentence petition asking Congress to censure President Clinton and move on to ...
JOAN BLADES People think of us as an information distributor because that's how they relate to the Internet....
JOAN BLADES I'm a mediator by training and inclination.
JOAN BLADES Moveon is not a one-way broadcast media. The Internet, when used best, is a two-way media. We have a...
JOAN BLADES When we compile a petition, we often have members go to their representative's or Senator's ...
JOAN BLADES I find it odd that there's such strong objection to what is a clear way to assure that our elect...
JOAN BLADES Because they had to keep it so secret I didn't even know about it until yesterday. It was definitely...
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JOSH BLADES You can't get much more Republican than that.
JOSH BLADES We will never stop illegal immigration until this country has a comprehensive, realistic immigration...
RUBEN HINOJOSA You don't want to get the same kind of advice from everyone on your board.
RUBEN CARDENAS We must stop talking about the American dream and start listening to the dreams of the Americans.
RUBEN ASKEW You can be confident and secure and know that you do a good job at what you do. But you don't know t...
RUBEN STUDDARD I'm racing against me. As long as I come across the finish, I'll be okay.
RUBEN STUDDARD We need to work together, on a bipartisan basis, to create new jobs, increase job training, enact re...
RUBEN HINOJOSA I've been blessed because there are a lot of great singers out there that didn't make it pas...
RUBEN STUDDARD I want to be around for a long time. I don't want to be a one-hit wonder.
RUBEN STUDDARD We became somewhat household names really quickly, within a matter of - what? - three, four months. ...
RUBEN STUDDARD You know, Simon he's an artist representative, but Randy and Paula actually were in the industry...
RUBEN STUDDARD All of them had so much to offer us as far as, you know, knowledge in the music industry, and especi...
RUBEN STUDDARD So I've never in my whole life really been teased about my weight.
RUBEN STUDDARD You know, I played football, I was offensive tackle in college.
RUBEN STUDDARD Simon is cool. You know, it's different if you ever see him around his mom. He acts totally diff...
RUBEN STUDDARD I like doing theaters. I like being up close and personal with the fans. It's really cool.
RUBEN STUDDARD I don't want to be a one-hit wonder.
RUBEN STUDDARD I think I look good. I think I look real good.
RUBEN STUDDARD I've never had any health problems and I'm Ruben, man, all the way through.
RUBEN STUDDARD When one person does something that works, everyone else wants to do it. So it didn't surprise m...
RUBEN STUDDARD I don't have any concerns about my weight. I've always been healthy. I eat right. I'm ju...
RUBEN STUDDARD I want to make sure I continue to make good music that my mom and everybody around me can be proud o...
RUBEN STUDDARD I have a greater goal - to empower young people through music education.
RUBEN STUDDARD The only thing about my life that's really changed is the fact that a lot of people know me now....
RUBEN STUDDARD Because I gave myself - I left school after the second semester of my junior year to pursue a career...
RUBEN STUDDARD My mother always taught me, even my dad, just never let other people's opinions of you shape you...
RUBEN STUDDARD And I just pray that god gives me longevity in the music industry.
RUBEN STUDDARD I never want to try to be a spokesperson for health and wellness because I most definitely am not th...
RUBEN STUDDARD People just take your kindness for weakness sometimes, and that's just the bottom line.
RUBEN STUDDARD I'm in the process of brainstorming with my marketing team and all that stuff, trying to come up...
RUBEN STUDDARD I'm always happy for people when I see God blessing them the way he's blessed me.
RUBEN STUDDARD Closing the gap for women entrepreneurs should be a priority for the federal government - and yet th...
RUBEN HINOJOSA While I do commend the Administration on its commitment and focus on high school reform, I believe t...
RUBEN HINOJOSA Our record number of teenagers must become our record number of high school and college graduates an...
RUBEN HINOJOSA I'm not in the best shape, but I want to prove to myself I can do something that seems insurmoun...
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RUBEN HINOJOSA At their core, Americans all want the same basic things: a quality education for their children, a g...
RUBEN HINOJOSA Right now, America's middle class is struggling to meet their basic needs.
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RUBEN HINOJOSA High bankruptcy rates, increased credit card debt, and identity theft make it imperative that all of...
RUBEN HINOJOSA It is incumbent upon all of us to build communities with the educational opportunities and support s...
RUBEN HINOJOSA You have to learn that if you start making sure you feel good, everything will be okay.
RUBEN STUDDARD People don't have to like or support you, so you always have to say thank you.
RUBEN STUDDARD I just never let anything bother me, man. I know myself really well. Nobody's opinion of me can shak...
RUBEN STUDDARD We constantly and maximally invest ourselves into our children to realize OUR vision of happiness - ...
RUBEN PAPIAN Intuition is a perfectly natural process, not only for you, but also for something as small as a bug...
RUBEN PAPIAN As problems like identity theft become more prevalent, now more than ever, Americans need to take th...
RUBEN HINOJOSA The conditions are becoming increasingly adverse. It is grave, and being realistic, we think the sit...
RUBEN ESCUDERO If we keep playing like we played tonight, we might mess up and get put out in the first round. It's...
RUBEN PATTERSON Humans are very weird creatures. Perhaps stupidity is the smartest thing they are capable of conjuri...
RUBEN PAPIAN Your whole strength is inside you. Whatever you wish, whatever you want, it’s in you head. I am ju...
RUBEN PAPIAN The sole fact of survival is enough for the entire system to start treasuring every minute of life.
RUBEN PAPIAN That was a blooper down the line and I was playing him in the gap, ... You would never expect him to...
RUBEN SIERRA A human has to be that smart, to know how stupid he needs to be.
RUBEN PAPIAN Correct emotional state is a stimulative factor to everything. If you chose love, go ahead; just lea...
RUBEN PAPAIN A lie is not necessarily a fraud. Lie doesn’t even exist. There is however hope, faith, fantasy…
RUBEN PAPIAN You are driving a car and it will maybe eventually start going in the wrong direction. But it is you...
RUBEN PAPIAN Try to record your own silence. Listen to it when you are alone, but be careful! You could go insane...
RUBEN PAPIAN We're accepting no more changes. Our problem is, we can't get to a baseline.
RUBEN COLLAZO If he was away getting something he needed or having a meal, he wouldn't be under the rubble, but we...
RUBEN ESCUDERO Doubt exists in every step you make. It allows you to foresee the dangers ahead.
RUBEN PAPIAN Money and finances are completely artificial categories - in natural conditions, they don't exist. M...
RUBEN PAPIAN The real picture of you is just a code for reality...
RUBEN PAPIAN The future is a precise plan and you are just following the signals towards it.
RUBEN PAPIAN Emotional threads are woven like a spider web, gentry, fast and everywhere...After a while they turn...
RUBEN PAPIAN I think I can be ready to pinch-hit or go in the game. But if not, I'm going to let them know that I...
RUBEN SIERRA Rarely are people redu to look at love itself and see it for what it really is –a dynamic changeab...
RUBEN PAPIAN Believe in yourself! Do not let doubt, fear, panic, hysteria or even extreme faith to get in your wa...
RUBEN PAPIAN You cannot control your brain activities. It works all the time and it is completely automated proce...
RUBEN PAPIAN comes closest to what Mexico wants.
RUBEN AGUILAR We hope that in coming weeks and months, relations cool off so that we can re-establish them to thei...
RUBEN AGUILAR Turn the page. There are many more important things to look at.
RUBEN AGUILAR In the frontal war against organized crime, the Mexican state will be victorious, but there will sti...
RUBEN AGUILAR We are keeping an eye on the situation in El Salvador.
RUBEN AGUILAR The government is not scared by this pressure from organized crime and we will have to continue figh...
RUBEN AGUILAR The initial information indicates that organized crime was involved in the killings of these two pub...
RUBEN AGUILAR The studies indicate that it could take several weeks and perhaps even months to get into the area w...
RUBEN AGUILAR A migratory reform that only addresses security will not resolve the bilateral immigration problem. ...
RUBEN AGUILAR We can not endorse a working document, a draft that has not been discussed nor had a final edit.
RUBEN AGUILAR However, the Administration's plan to privatize Social Security will undermine retirement securi...
RUBEN HINOJOSA The privatization plan weakens Social Security and threatens our economic security by creating trill...
RUBEN HINOJOSA If we do not get No Child Left Behind right for Limited English Proficient students, the law will be...
RUBEN HINOJOSA The future does not look at the past, it always looks at the future.
RUBEN PAPIAN Faith is always reshaping according to your conscious understanding.
RUBEN PAPIAN Humanity is still on the level where everyone’s “I” can be purchased with colored paper. It’...
RUBEN PAPIAN Everything is a consequence of something. The element of coincidence doesn't exist - we only think i...
RUBEN PAPIAN ... And hope says: "Come on, it's alright, just keep going." Hope encourages the strides to your goa...
RUBEN PAPIAN My grandson gets zero tolerance (in school), and addicts get a second chance. I understand they do t...
RUBEN HOPE Garbage can smell pleasantly - beauty can stink. Everything is far more different if you have the fl...
RUBEN PAPIAN The data indicates that the virus is being transmitted efficiently from dog to dog, and this indicat...
RUBEN DONIS The data indicate the virus is being transmitted efficiently from dog to dog. It is now well establi...
RUBEN DONIS Tragically, the White House Task Force on Disadvantaged Youth reported that one-quarter of our young...
RUBEN HINOJOSA I see the guys playing a lot harder when they see me and Reggie out there banging down on the floor,...
RUBEN PATTERSON This is just an act of solidarity between two peoples who are brothers.
RUBEN AGUILAR We implore you to understand this effort.
RUBEN ESCUDERO That's why he got all those millions -- he just has to be consistent. That's what big-time players d...
RUBEN PATTERSON People have gone over the area [before] but not as intensely as this time.
RUBEN TRAPENBERG He was the best player at 20 last year and the stats proves it. He was not elevated to the varsity t...
RUBEN RODRIGUEZ I'm an infant with Shakespeare; I'm kind of learning how to walk. I am trying to decipher th...
RUBEN SANTIAGO-HUDSON I am always going to be in the hood in my heart, but what I did was added on the masters of arts, fi...
RUBEN SANTIAGO-HUDSON I try to create an environment where it's okay to make a mistake, though it's not okay to be...
RUBEN SANTIAGO-HUDSON You know, I'm a father. I'm a brother. I'm a son. And I'm a grandfather. So many tim...
RUBEN SANTIAGO-HUDSON I've never considered being a cop. I could be a teacher, I could be a minister, a social worker ...
RUBEN SANTIAGO-HUDSON One was a regular virus like we have seen in poultry in Turkey before -- no surprises there.
DR. RUBEN DONIS We think he was probably doing that just to see if they would be receptive to that kind of behavior....
LT. RUBEN DIAZ I think she was just a victim of convenience. She worked with the football team as well. She was alw...
LT. RUBEN DIAZ It's easy to say that, but what happens if we start doing that continuously and then, all of a sudde...
LT. RUBEN DIAZ When we did the rape kit, there was physical evidence discovered that leads us to believe that she i...
LT. RUBEN DIAZ He told her that if she screamed or if she told anybody what he was doing, he was going to come back...
LT. RUBEN DIAZ Tom Gordon hasn't been in [the closer] role because he pitched in front of Mariano Rivera for the pa...
RUBEN AMARO JR Thanks to the AFI, who saved my life. I'm happy to be alive.
RUBEN OMAR ROMANO