Ruben Santiago-Hudson quote: "I try to create an environment where it's okay to make a mistake, though it's not okay to be unfocused or come in unprepared. I'm challenging and demanding, but very patient. I don't tell you how to get there and I don't show you what to do, though I'll ask leading questions."

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

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

I'm a handsome, caramel-colored Latino from the Bronx.
RAY SANTIAGO

Esto sí era rescatar ("liberar de un peligro, daño, trabajo, molestia, opresión,etc.", según el ...
SANTIAGO POSTEGUILLO

I've never been in any country for more than four years, and I'm learning different language...
SANTIAGO CABRERA

Doolittle was a major influence on the Seattle grunge scene, which emerged in the early 1990s.
JOEY SANTIAGO

If you don't risk anything it doesn't mean you won't lose, it just means you'll never win.
STEPHANIE SANTIAGO

It's always nice to end your sentences with an exclamation mark, and not a comma.
JOEY SANTIAGO

My English teacher always gave me scripts for plays, but I was into sports. My friend said there wer...
SANTIAGO CABRERA

It's easy. You draw a red line on the ground, right? Then you wait for a chicken to come along. ...
JOEY SANTIAGO

I wanted to do a very slender building, and a very transparent one.
SANTIAGO CALATRAVA

It's very atmospheric. It's not a building that is a severe statement in the skyline. We need the he...
SANTIAGO CALATRAVA

There was a wish to get something exceptional. I also wanted to deliver something technically unique...
SANTIAGO CALATRAVA

On a practical level, the design creates a new direct link to Governors Island for both tourists and...
SANTIAGO CALATRAVA

It's all very well organized. The whole set-up process takes about five hours.
ANITA SANTIAGO

Everyone knows exactly what their job is. It's like clockwork.
ANITA SANTIAGO

The project will increase China's pipeline gas transmission capacity from 12 billion cubic meters a ...
CLAUDI SANTIAGO

I'm turning on the A/C and putting a vacancy sign up. We're really lucky. The sun is coming out. We'...
MONA SANTIAGO

How can you know what you're capable of if you don't embrace the unkown?
ESMERALDA SANTIAGO

Intel has a slew of products coming out within a span of the next two or three quarters that could h...
LES SANTIAGO

Hey - how can I find a head of wild lettuce? Where does it grow?
JOEY SANTIAGO

Here is my theory on this one. If you write things down, if there is a mystery and you try and expla...
JOEY SANTIAGO

You flip a coin and you lie in bed and that's a long good-bye - you know?
JOEY SANTIAGO

When you meet your friends, especially, you notice how different you are. Everything from your cloth...
JOEY SANTIAGO

The last note felt really good.
JOEY SANTIAGO

This is exactly the kind of performance we were hoping for during the season. We saw flashes of it e...
CHRIS SANTIAGO

People do ask, 'Are you going to embellish this stuff?' I wouldn't change any of my guit...
JOEY SANTIAGO

We know the construction won't last forever, but some nights we don't get to the (Newburgh-Beacon) b...
CARMEN SANTIAGO

Working with the circus has been a great way for me to learn about so many cultures and languages.
ANITA SANTIAGO

So someday, it is possible that our water resources may be controlled by Singapore or other countrie...
CHARLES SANTIAGO

They have no achievements of their own. They've made nothing, created nothing, worked at nothing. Th...
ESMERALDA SANTIAGO

I just found the word 'Pixies' in a dictionary and it sounded like rock 'n' roll.
JOEY SANTIAGO

The saddest thing is that when I sat down to rehearse for the Pixies, I couldn't believe that I ...
JOEY SANTIAGO

The only way to prevent our resources from being controlled by foreign entities is for them to be pl...
CHARLES SANTIAGO

This agreement states that if a service like water is provided on a commercial and profit basis, the...
CHARLES SANTIAGO

Nobody understood why the Stewart bus couldn't wait for us to get in at 6:09, since the drivers were...
CARMEN SANTIAGO

It's been a long time coming, and we're very appreciative. It's going to make for a shorter commute,...
CARMEN SANTIAGO

I won't ask you to tell me who has spoken ill of me, but I would like to know who has spoken favorab...
SANTIAGO RONCAGLIOLO

I'm not technical. When I listen to music, I gravitate more toward the sonic aspect of it. The t...
JOEY SANTIAGO

We were just a bunch of high school kids who got into the Ramones together.
SANTIAGO DURANGO

Expanding the gas flow in the pipeline requires the installation of a relatively large number of uni...
CLAUDI SANTIAGO

I never in my life wanted to live through something like this. There are no words to describe it.
GUADALUPE SANTIAGO

But if they learn that the employer is making an effort to protect them at the work site, they'll fe...
ESTHER SANTIAGO

They're so anxious to finish the work quickly so they can make money, they will risk their lives.
ESTHER SANTIAGO

Forklift accidents are preventable; each year, however, powered industrial trucks are involved in th...
LUIS SANTIAGO

I told my sister that I didn't trust him.
LUIS SANTIAGO

Kids often imitate everything that they see. They try to imitate the shooting and the cops. . . . Th...
LUIS SANTIAGO

Cranes do fail because of deficiency on the equipment or operator error.
LUIS SANTIAGO

I don't, either. Some people complain, but I just don't feel it. It's not my country, you know?
LUIS SANTIAGO

Our checks indicate that AMD continues to gain share in desktops and notebooks in addition to contin...
LES SANTIAGO

We believe that Intel's lead in [the] 65nm transition should provide it a limited performance boost ...
LES SANTIAGO

These stocks have been tied to the computing market for the past few years but now that you have con...
LES SANTIAGO

It's not right. They want to work. They're not doing nothing wrong. They want for (the children) to ...
JUAN SANTIAGO

Everybody thinks we are terrorists, and we are working guys. They don't give me a chance.
JUAN SANTIAGO

He didn't realize he hit her. He was totally shocked.
JUAN SANTIAGO

I was basically eking it out. (The reunion) couldn't have come at a better time.
JOEY SANTIAGO

Am I right in thinking people come and ask us (America) for help or do we just do it? I don't know a...
JOEY SANTIAGO

It's easy. You draw a red line on the ground, right? Then you wait for a chicken to come along. When...
JOEY SANTIAGO

It's not an ego thing. It just seems like an interesting thing to do. I'd like to go down to the Phi...
JOEY SANTIAGO

I started playing football when I was in seventh grade, but I just didn't like it, and I liked socce...
MIKE SANTIAGO

I ask her why she had to put me through so much trouble. And I tell her I'm sorry and that I love he...
NIXZALIZ SANTIAGO

In New York, everyone is always working.
SANTIAGO MOLINA

He taught readers that they deserve beauty and meaning and must demand it in their cities. He taught...
SANTIAGO CALATRAVA

We will never stop illegal immigration until this country has a comprehensive, realistic immigration...
RUBEN HINOJOSA

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

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 think being born in Panama was a blessing because Panama is a port city. It's a really - the m...
RUBEN BLADES

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...
RUBEN STUDDARD

Farms and ranches contend with much more than quarterly reports and profit margins - the weather can...
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.
RUBEN HINOJOSA

Currently, only 70 percent of our high school students earn diplomas with their peers, and less than...
RUBEN HINOJOSA

A person's credit report is one of the most important tools consumers can use to maintain their ...
RUBEN HINOJOSA

High bankruptcy rates, increased credit card debt, and identity theft make it imperative that all of...
RUBEN HINOJOSA

So that I saw music as a way of documenting realities from the urban cities of Latin America.
RUBEN BLADES

The grandmother, the mother, the worker, the student, the intellectual, the professional, the unempl...
RUBEN BLADES

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

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

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

I was the first person to come into New York with a Latin American point of view which was also very...
RUBEN BLADES

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

And, he'd seen me in Panama, and he talked about maybe doing something in New York so I hooked i...
RUBEN BLADES

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

Basically, I would like to be considered for roles that are well-written. I think that part of the p...
RUBEN BLADES

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

Tango was very popular in Panama at the time when I was growing up. In the Fifties in Panama, the ra...
RUBEN BLADES

Tragically, the White House Task Force on Disadvantaged Youth reported that one-quarter of our young...
RUBEN HINOJOSA

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 see the guys playing a lot harder when they see me and Reggie out there banging down on the floor,...
RUBEN PATTERSON

I was a kid, and I remember my mother singing. She was also a radio soap opera actress, but my mothe...
RUBEN BLADES

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

Every poem is an infant labored into birth and I am drenched with sweating effort, tired from the pa...
JIMMY SANTIAGO BACA

Originally in the United States, there were no laws regulating behavioral advertising. As a result, ...
MIRIAM DEFENSOR-SANTIAGO

What makes me angry is when people know what is right but have, over the years, attuned themselves t...
MIRIAM DEFENSOR-SANTIAGO

Since we all know that death is inevitable, I don't really see the difference between dying now ...
MIRIAM DEFENSOR-SANTIAGO

I don't think so-called high technology matters in death. I think they had high technology befor...
MIRIAM DEFENSOR-SANTIAGO

The Dalai Lama has taught me that the best way to live life is to try and avoid desire. Desire is re...
MIRIAM DEFENSOR-SANTIAGO

The Philippines must ensure that it adopts, as much as possible, an equi-balancing strategy towards ...
MIRIAM DEFENSOR-SANTIAGO

Numerically, half of our high-ranking government officials should be women, and half should be men. ...
MIRIAM DEFENSOR-SANTIAGO

Research shows that when women are empowered as political leaders, countries often experience higher...
MIRIAM DEFENSOR-SANTIAGO

Obviously, the Philippines or any regional state can never match Chinese defense spending, but we wi...
MIRIAM DEFENSOR-SANTIAGO

I articulate the deepest need of the Filipino people, which is reform of a corrupt culture.
MIRIAM DEFENSOR-SANTIAGO

I refuse for any person or organized group to dictate to me what God is. That is really the height o...
MIRIAM DEFENSOR-SANTIAGO

Experience has shown us that attempts to control the Internet will invariably fail. We should be ins...
MIRIAM DEFENSOR-SANTIAGO

We are legislators, not public works contractors. People look up to us to make serious laws that cou...
MIRIAM DEFENSOR-SANTIAGO

There is nothing wrong with centralizing the budget in Manila. We are such a small country.
MIRIAM DEFENSOR-SANTIAGO

That's the very essence of pork barrelism, when you give a huge lump sum to a person and say, &#...
MIRIAM DEFENSOR-SANTIAGO

I believe they don?t want to put a stop to these investigations because they want to oust the Presid...
MIRIAM DEFENSOR SANTIAGO

Sexy is the attraction that is given as an encomium to women or men, or the capacity to attract the ...
MIRIAM DEFENSOR-SANTIAGO

Planet Earth is estimated to have a lifetime of nine billion years. And we're right smack in the...
MIRIAM DEFENSOR-SANTIAGO

I have no one at my side except God and His angels. I pray to God that He will turn my enemies into ...
MIRIAM DEFENSOR-SANTIAGO

The cancer that demands our urgent attention is corruption and poverty.
MIRIAM DEFENSOR-SANTIAGO

Society leaders have urged me to seek the presidency.
MIRIAM DEFENSOR-SANTIAGO

My father said, 'Aren't you going to do anything to help people? We have a whole rack of rel...
MIRIAM DEFENSOR-SANTIAGO

I want to be known as Terminator 2.
MIRIAM DEFENSOR-SANTIAGO

I do not have any strong desire to remain in government. When my task is done, I shall be happy to l...
MIRIAM DEFENSOR-SANTIAGO

I try to create an environment where it's okay to make a mistake, though it's not okay to be unfocused or come in unprepared. I'm challenging and demanding, but very patient. I don't tell you how to get there and I don't show you what to do, though I'll ask leading questions.

Ruben Santiago-Hudson

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