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Heroes represent the best of ourselves, respecting that we are human beings. A hero can be anyone from Gandhi to your classroom teacher, anyone who can show courage when faced with a problem. A hero is someone who is willing to help others in his or her best capacity.

- Ricky Martin

Best, Show, Willing, Respecting

I eat everything, that's a problem. I don't have discipline. My favorite dish is the Caribbean. Meat, rice, lots of grains. But I do like to do exercises. Lately, I've been having capoeira classes and lots of cardiovascular exercises, such as jogging and cycling.

- Ricky Martin

Been, Cycling, Classes, Jogging

I am convinced that music, like philanthropy, bridges hope.

- Ricky Martin

Music, I Am, Convinced, Bridges

Buddha's teaching are very simple, you don't have to break your head to understand the message. The part that I like the most from Buddha's teachings and from His Holiness, The Dalai Lama, is that the most powerful weapon is to not attack, to be able to have self-control.

- Ricky Martin

Self-Control, Part, Very, Powerful Weapon

Every family is different. I am mom and I am dad and I'm going to do my best. You should be proud, walk through life saying I have the coolest family. I am part of a modern family.

- Ricky Martin

Proud, Through, Going, Modern Family

I want my children to be proud of their father and to say, 'My father is the best dad in the world.' And I want them to belong to a modern family, and live a path of happiness and calm.

- Ricky Martin

Proud, Belong, Dad, Modern Family

If I had spent a quarter of the time that I spent manipulating my sexuality in front of a piano instead, I would be the most gifted piano player of my lifetime.

- Ricky Martin

Lifetime, Sexuality, Spent, Piano Player

I believe Barack Obama has shown a deep conviction to help those most in need, even if their voices are not always the ones heard the loudest in Washington.

- Ricky Martin

Deep, Need, Always, Loudest

I've performed in China, France, New Delhi, and Indianapolis, and everybody just allows themselves to go at it and have a good time. I think that's what I'm doing through music. It's not about 'I'm from here and you're from there.' It's about unity.

- Ricky Martin

Through, Here, Everybody, Delhi

My priorities are: I need to be good; I need to be well within for my children to be well within; and then the creative process flows, organically and smoothly. I'm not looking to experience what I went through in the 'Livin' La Vida Loca' days again.

- Ricky Martin

Good, Experience, Through, Smoothly

For many years, there has been only one place where I am in touch with my emotions fearlessly, and that's the stage. Being on stage fills my soul in many ways, almost completely. It's my vice.

- Ricky Martin

Soul, Been, Almost, Fills

Every night, you fight for that standing ovation at the end of the night. And if you do something wrong, the domino effect is chaotic. And you must not allow yourself to make mistakes whatsoever. So in that case, theater, it's fascinating because of the discipline that you need.

- Ricky Martin

Mistakes, Discipline, Allow, Case

When I was 9 years old, I really wanted to be in the show business. I really wanted to be an artist. I would grab a wooden spoon and I would start singing, even if it was for my uncles and my aunts. And I would just sing any lah-lah song.

- Ricky Martin

Artist, Years, Show, Aunts

The rights of homosexual people are human rights, and human rights are for everyone.

- Ricky Martin

Rights, Everyone, Homosexual

The homosexual community wants me to be gay. The heterosexual community wants me to be straight. Every writer thinks, I'm the journalist who's going to make him talk. I pray for them. I pray that they get a life and stop living mine!

- Ricky Martin

Life, Him, Pray, Homosexual

Proud to say that I am a fortunate homosexual man.

- Ricky Martin

I Am, Proud, Say, Homosexual

I am a fortunate homosexual man. I am very blessed to be who I am.

- Ricky Martin

I Am, Blessed, Very, Homosexual

It was really intense for me to start having conversations with God, when according to the man-made laws in my religion - to be homosexual is evil.

- Ricky Martin

Start, Laws, Having, Homosexual

Sexuality and sensuality are completely different things. Sensuality is something that you're born with. But sexuality is something I leave for my own mirror.

- Ricky Martin

Mirror, Sexuality, My Own, Sensuality

People don't know this, but I'm going through a lot every time I walk on stage, which is part of doing theater. That's why it's so addictive, I must say.

- Ricky Martin

Doing, Through, Part, Addictive

When you take things too seriously, you get old. You have to be silly. Whenever people say, 'Hey, man, are you ever going to grow up?' That's when you know you're doing things right.

- Ricky Martin

Doing, Whenever, Too, Hey

You can be a sex symbol through music or film. Hey, there are some politicians that are sex symbols. Is that something you should fight? No. Sex is very natural.

- Ricky Martin

Through, Some, Symbol, Hey

One day I'm riding a bicycle in my neighborhood, the next day I auditioned for Menudo and was on a plane to perform in front of 200,000 people.

- Ricky Martin

Bicycle, Next, Plane, Neighborhood

A lot of people say, 'Wow, you're a single father of twin boys, that's crazy!' Two toddlers can get hectic, but I wouldn't change it for anything. Every day they teach me different things. The love is there. When you have a two-year-old saying every other hour, 'Papi, te amo. Papi, I love you,' it can't get better.

- Ricky Martin

Love, Other, Toddlers, Wow

When someone isn't ready we must not try to force them out. People are being bullied and committing suicide because they're gay and it's horrible.

- Ricky Martin

Suicide, Them, Committing, Bullied

Buddhism has a very beautiful teaching that says the worst thing you can do to your soul is to tell someone their faith is wrong.

- Ricky Martin

Soul, Worst Thing, Very, Buddhism

Honestly, I never needed a mask to go onstage. It was me who was there, and it was always what I felt, based on what I had learned at home, in my religion, and from society. I clung to that: 'This is me, it has to be me.' And if I had an encounter with someone of the same sex, I looked away.

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Away, Needed, Had, Mask

My goal is to think of nothing when I'm writing a song because too many influences could sabotage a potentially amazing song.

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Goal, Song, Think, Potentially

What I like about Broadway is that you are still entertaining. You're standing in front of an audience every night and the critics are not friends at all - and that's good for me as an entertainer because I want to grow. It also gives me the structure of remaining in one city so I can get creative in different ways.

- Ricky Martin

City, Broadway, Entertaining, Every Night

We all have to go through our own spiritual process. It is very difficult. Some people are struggling and they are in their teens. Some people are in their 50s and they're struggling. Some people go through life and die not being able to accept themselves. Tragic. But it's very individual. And it's about self-esteem.

- Ricky Martin

Through, Some, Very, Tragic

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