Even after I got some recognition and success, I still had to work hard and prove myself.

In this life, to earn your place you have to fight for it.

You can't achieve anything in life without a small amount of sacrifice.

I prefer an ugly truth to a pretty lie. If someone is telling me the truth that is when I will give my heart.

There's no better makeup than self-confidence.

Scars remind me of just how far that I've come.

I am trying to make my accent so it won't bother anyone, but I am not going to drive myself crazy trying to pretend I am an American girl when I am from Colombia.

It doesn't matter if you are a musician, a business leader, a president or a student. We all have a responsibility to give back.

I can be like a lioness when defending my people.

Education affects every major challenge we face in society. It creates economic growth, paves the way for peace and stability and helps erase the legacy of marginalization.

Live your life to the fullest.

One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose.

Flying in a modern jet airplane doses the human with levels of radiation comparable to those found in nuclear disaster zones.

It rewrites the contract, I'd read somewhere. Your self's no longer central. This thing comes out of you and drags half your soul along after it like a blanket.

I think Canadian humor is a little less broad than American humor.

Any reflection about poetry should begin, or end, with this question: who and how many read poetry books?

Yeah, I've had the privilege to know a lot of really talented people.

Vermont is the only place in America where I ever hear thrift spoken of with respect.

I'd rather hug Magic Johnson after he rolled around in barbed wire.

But let me tell you what happens when regulations go too far, when they seem to exist only for the purpose of justifying the existence of a regulator. It kills the people trying to start a business.

Well, I would say that Shake It Up was a chance for me to do two things I really love: acting and dancing.