Ruben Blades Quotes

At a certain point, people in Panama thought that everything was going to be solved as soon as Noriega was gone. Of course, the disappointment was huge.

Ruben Blades

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PeopleDisappointmentThoughtGone

Back in 2011, I was kind of shy. I wasn't as good because that was the year, also, when I started playing basketball.

Joel Embiid

GoodBasketballYearBackKindShy

We were in the same band, but we're two completely different people. People have asked me to make comparisons with our albums, and I can't, because there's no comparison. Her album's okay. I don't think she's the best singer on Earth, but she's okay.

Melanie Chisholm

BestPeopleMeThinkEarthOkay

Thinkers too often disparage men of action in ways that do them no credit.

Michael Ignatieff

MenActionCreditThinkersWaysToo

What has changed is that people have stopped working together.

Michael Bloomberg

Working TogetherTogetherPeople

I love the theater as much as music, and the whole idea of getting across to an audience and making them laugh, making them cry - just making them feel - is paramount to me.

Stephen Sondheim

LoveMusicMeFeelLaughCry

A significant event for me was learning Hank Williams, reconnecting with his music's simplicity, which inspired me to inhabit the same territory. It's different, because I grew up on Led Zeppelin, The Stooges and punk, so in that sense I'm mutating country and folk more than a few degrees.

Stone Gossard

LearningMusicSimplicityMeCountry

A lot of the new people they choose on shows like 'American Idol' and things like that - I don't ever hear lead singers. They always seem to choose to pick people that are great singers, fabulous singers, but they've never got the voice that makes a great lead singer.

Roger Daltrey

GreatPeopleVoiceAmericanChoose

I have never had a problem with national service. I am not sure the draft is the way to go about it, but I am positive that you live in a society and you take from this society, which every citizen here does. You owe something back to this country, and that should be paid back in some form of national service.

Montel Williams

PositiveLiveServiceI AmSociety

If you win while scoring goals, then you leave happy, but the most important thing is always the team. I do not think just of me.

Luis Suarez

GoalsHappyMeTeamWinThink

I'm one of these people who doesn't say that objectivity is not within our reach. I think if you're a pro, and you're a reporter, you do it. Whether you agree with the guy or not is just quite incidental. It doesn't count at all, really.

Liz Trotta

PeopleThinkReachYouSayCount

I need to get a tiny bit more 'woke.'

Jorja Smith

MoreNeedWokeGetTinyBit

It's nice to say let's be bipartisan. But we're a partisan nation. We were raised as a partisan nation.

Colin Powell

NiceSayNationPartisanRaised

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