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" Not everybody goes to government to serve themselves and not their country. "

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" I'm planning to retire from salsa. I'm planning to do a farewell tour. "

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" It doesn't make sense for me to be a lawyer in a place where there is no law. "

" I didn't do drugs, I never did do drugs. Never. I don't have any story of drugs, you know, to speak of. Never did drugs, never was interested in drugs and then I wasn't interested in the people around the drugs. "

" Basically, I would like to be considered for roles that are well-written. I think that part of the problem that we've had as actors is that they insist on looking at us as Latino actors and not as actors, period. "

" So everything that ever happened, we knew about in Panama. "

" You know, it was uncomfortable doing the same thing. I don't like a rut. "

" So I went to Miami in '74 with my family and while I was there it became obvious that we needed money and we needed to do something, because my family, we left without anything really, and we didn't have any money to begin with. "

" In general, both in Spanish and English, the quality of the entertainment media is horrible. "

" I think we risk becoming the best informed society that has ever died of ignorance. "

" I think being born in Panama was a blessing because Panama is a port city. It's a really - the mentality is that - I remember that of admitting things in. You know, ports, ideas come in and out all the time. "

" In those days the big U.S. labels didn't have any particular interest in the Latin market. "

" It's almost as if people think that in Latin America we're not hip to what's happening here. "

" There's something about the tango that brings even more emotion out of the lyrics. "

" People are a lot smarter than anyone gives them credit for being. "

" I was a kid, and I remember my mother singing. She was also a radio soap opera actress, but my mother sang. "

" I was born in Panama, the Republic of Panama, on July 16, 1948 in Panama City, in an area called San Felipe. "

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" So that when I came to New York again, it was, I'm not too sure right now, but it was '74 or '75. I went to Miami in '74 and then I came to New York, I think, at the end of '74. "

" What I do not accept is the fact that so many people's talents were ripped off. "

" What is interesting in this is the exchange of music that occurred between New Orleans and Cuba, I mean, they had ferries that would go from one port to another. "

" 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. "

" I decided we should book ourselves, so I started booking the band. "

" And, he'd seen me in Panama, and he talked about maybe doing something in New York so I hooked it up when I came here and I recorded in 1969 my first album with Pete Rodriguez. "

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" Rock is young music, it is youth oriented. It just speaks for a generation. "

" There was no television, so the radio provided you with everything. "