Al Lopez Quotes
My own style influences have to do with where I grew up, in the Bronx, and I still like to wear bangles and big hoops!
I didn't come from a background where I saw a lot of loving couples. All my aunts and uncles were either split up or fighting all the time. The only healthy relationships I saw were on TV.
It's a shame to call somebody a 'diva' simply because they work harder than everybody else.
Beauty is only skin deep. I think what's really important is finding a balance of mind, body and spirit.
The infrastructure, institutions and social fabric of Venezuela are deteriorating, and people realize the Chavez government has been the problem, not the solution.
You have to remember the value of your individuality - that you have something special and different to offer that nobody else can.
One thing you learn from surfing is how to operate in the present. It's really what the surfing experience is all about.
A national primary election would electrify the people and give them a larger stake in the outcome.
The fundamental problem is that there's no credibility in the judicial system, which is a system that's been completely politicized. This is retaliation and selective repression.
It's not even about black and white anymore, because so many people are from mixed backgrounds and mixed ethnicities, and it's just a great time to be able to pull all that together.
The land is like poetry: it is inexplicably coherent, it is transcendent in its meaning, and it has the power to elevate a consideration of human life.
I swear to God, I don't remember anything Gwyneth Paltrow was in. Some people get hot by association. I heard more about her and Brad Pitt and I ever heard about her work.
My parents wanted me to be a lawyer. But I don't think I would have been very happy. I'd be in front of the jury singing.
If stories come to you, care for them. And learn to give them away where they are needed. Sometimes a person needs a story more than food to stay alive.
Just because you dress sexy doesn't mean you're a bad girl; it just means you know how to dress.
We cannot, of course, save the World because we do not have authority over its parts. We can serve the world though. That is everyone's calling, to lead a life that helps.
Like they say, you can learn more from a guide in one day than you can in three months fishing alone.
Nurses quietly go about their work in a noble profession, uncelebrated soldiers toiling through the days and nights in service to the sick, the injured and the dying.
The interior landscape responds to the character and subtlety of the exterior landscape; the shape of the individual mind is affected by the land as it is by genes.
Everyone gets caught inside when surfing. You have 2 options. Give up or paddle outside. Life is the same. Keep paddling!
Love to me is someone telling me, 'I want to be with you for the rest of my life, and if you needed me to I'd jump out of a plane for you.'
Everything is held together with stories. That is all that is holding us together, stories and compassion.
You've gotta do things that make you happy. As women, we tend to give away a lot. We take care of a lot of people, and we can't forget to take care of ourselves.
You've got to love yourself first. You've got to be okay on your own before you can be okay with somebody else.
Sometimes you have to explore the darkness to get to the light and get back to who you are.
People equate sexy with promiscuous. They think that because I'm shaped this way, I must be scandalous - like running around and bringing men into my hotel room. But it's just the opposite.
The land gets inside of us; and we must decide one way or another what this means, what we will do about it.
When I was 10 there wasnt trampolines and cartoon charaters, I never went to Chuck E Cheese! My mom said 'You wanna see a mouse pull the refrigerator Out!'
With hard work, living a good life, you can do anything. You will be rewarded for that.
We simply do not understand our place in the universe and have not the courage to admit it.
