52 Quotes by Cristina Saralegui

To realize the American dream, the most important thing to understand is that it belongs to everybody. It's a human dream. If you understand this and work very hard, it is possible.

America was the place that said, 'It doesn't matter where you come from, it doesn't matter what your last name is, it doesn't matter if you drink cortaditos, or lattes, or coffee with milk. Here, if you work hard, anything is possible.

The world is not ideal, and the only weapon we can give our children is information. Information which is not pretty, but honest.

I'm very, very Spanish. I have fat cheeks on both ends. I'm sitting on my Spanish part. And it's my heart, the way I am, the way I speak. It has nothing to do with the way I look.

Like most Latinas, I'm not afraid to speak my mind.

We Latin women are liberated from the neck up, not the neck down.

My hope is to see Tom Cruise jumping on my couch.

You have to eat right. That does not mean that I don't drink Cuban coffee. That does not mean that I do not have two cigarettes a day - that's what I'm down to. I drink wine - you know, I'm normal. But I do eat well.

I want to make sure I'm not a dilettante. Decorating has been a passion all my life. I love it.