Quotes About Independence

Puerto Ricans are United States citizens, and I think that the issue of statehood or independence needs to be addressed and needs to be resolved.

Puerto Rico is a powerful island.

I was ballet dancing at four, playing piano by six, and doing commercials by 12. When I was 21, I was on the number one live comedy show in Puerto Rico. I told my parents, 'I'm going to New York to become a performer.' And I left.

Umm... I don't judge my relationship with Puff or Bad Boy according to other people or past artists. At the end of the day, you are in charge of your career, and you can't depend on no man to do anything for you. I've learned to judge relationships with a person on myself and that person, not what they have done with previous people.

I don't want to sound like Ross; I don't want to sound like Puff. I want to make my own music: French Montana.

Everyone who knows Puff knows Puff rolls with himself. His hustle is money. That's what he does.

I think, when you are growing up, you have to pull apart from what your mother wants or needs. You've got to go your own way, and that's what I did.

If we see too much of one person, even though we like that person, we start to kind of pull for other people.

You get a lot of people requesting photographs but I tend to keep myself to myself, pull my cap down.

I just want to make films that have enough of a budget to pull off high-level imagery but also have a budget that is low enough that I can do what I want.

Anybody can get bigheaded once they know the seat cannot be pulled out from under them.

Pulling away from your parents, that's the natural thing to do; that's how life progresses.

President Obama is casting his lot in the middle of a debate as old as America itself: Are we rugged individualists pulling ourselves up by the bootstraps? Or are we a nation of community, all connected and counting on one another?

Musicians are kind of like pirates, you know? You have to be free to follow whatever your muse is, or wherever life is pulling you - especially if you aren't in, like, U2, and making millions and millions of dollars.

What I like about Kickstarter is it helps games that people want to play still get made, even if you don't pump $20 million dollars into it to try and meet all the stupid bells and whistles that publishers feel must be in games nowadays.

Mother always said that even when I was 3, I used to get the 6- and 7-year-old kids on the block and punch them and say, 'Listen to me.'

For me to be able to punch above my weight creatively, to actually take a stand for what I was doing, I had to take on everything. I had to be the person who says, 'I wrote it. I directed it.'

When, no matter what you do, everybody's going to punch holes in it, then you just go and you do what you want. And that's the most freeing place to be.

To some people, the fact that I am not married, or don't have children, would be the reason I have written a book on punctuation.

I tend not to read the papers or listen to what the pundits say about me.

In America, educators punish those who actually think for themselves. There is only acceptance for popular opinion.

Coming from college, where they tell you exactly what you have to do, and they tell you have to be at this at this time, you kind of get punishment for that. Now you're in the NFL, and you have to do it on your own.

I'm not anti-fashion, but I've always had a bit of a punk attitude. That's important, I think. I do my own thing.

People can have their punk ideals, but I don't really care about that kind of thing.