Celia Cruz Quotes
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To be honest, marriage doesn't scare me and that, it's just once you've been together for so long, if you haven't got any kids it's just a big expensive day out for everyone else to enjoy, isn't it?
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Sometimes there's a snobbery among literary types that these people don't really get it, but in a lot of ways they get it more than the literati. There's a culture in the background that they understand and know. They get that deeper level.
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Girls have an unfair advantage over men: if they can't get what they want by being smart, they can get it by being dumb.
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I love things that are harsh and things that are too loud. And I love lulling people into a false sense of security. That's life.
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There is no kind of music I don't listen to. Everything good is interesting. I am as happy with a Bach fugue as I am with a record by Thelonious Monk.
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The problem is that I don't want to add another record to the world that is not necessary to be published, except to make some business. There has to be a musical reason.
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If you want to do something, what does it matter where you are ranked?
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Before, boxing was something that I did. Now, boxing is who I am.
Mandy Bujold -
Every man is his own hell.
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I love tuning into Radio 1 on a Friday night after training and hearing the new stuff.
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Throughout my career I have been talked out of things I wanted to do, and when I look back, I think I should have followed my instincts.
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Just as dyed hair makes older men less attractive, it is what you do to hide your weaknesses that makes them repugnant.
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All our symbols have the same purpose; words are merely the symbols we use most commonly. The function of words in human thought is to stand for things which are not present to the senses, and allow the mind to manipulate them-things, concepts, ideas, everything that does not have a physical reality in front of us now.
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In the welter of conflicting fanaticisms, one of the few unifying forces is scientific truthfulness, by which I mean the habit of basing our beliefs upon observations and inferences as impersonal, and as much divested of local and temperamental bias, as is possible for human beings.
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The thing in basketball is you always want to be free. I don't want to be hugged up to my guy. When we're body to body, I want to control you.
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I still think in a parallel universe, I became a mathematician.
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It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.
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To join a great club is nice and all, but you have to play the games.
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I was in the playground, like, 'Let's imitate the Spice Girls and form a girl group!' I would go home and sing into my hairbrush and act like Britney Spears. I was no Mozart.
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This wisdom of crowds thing--it may be a cliche, but it's mostly true. What we're talking about here is a democracy, and it works, but you have to be careful before it gets out of control.
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Every child should have the opportunity to receive a quality education.
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The opportunities and threats existing in any situation always exceed the resources needed to exploit the opportunities or avoid the threats. Thus, strategy is essentially a problem of allocating resources. If strategy is to be successful, it must allocate superior resources against a decisive opportunity.
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When opportunity presents itself grab it. Hold on tight and don’t let go.
