Celia Cruz Quotes

When opportunity presents itself grab it. Hold on tight and don’t let go.

Celia Cruz

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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?

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • Long
  • Kids
  • Together

• 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.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • People
  • Culture
  • Sometimes

• 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.

  

  Yul Brynner
  • Men
  • Women
  • Smart

• 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.

  

  FKA twigs
  • People
  • Life
  • Sense

• 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.

  

  Maira Kalman
  • Good
  • Music
  • Happy

• 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.

  

  Eberhard Weber
  • World
  • Business
  • Problem

• I love to be in front of big galleries.

  

  Natalie Gulbis
  • Big
  • Front
  • Galleries

• If you want to do something, what does it matter where you are ranked?

  

  Kalpana Chawla
  • Want
  • You
  • Matter

• Before, boxing was something that I did. Now, boxing is who I am.

  Mandy Bujold
  • Boxing

• Every man is his own hell.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Man
  • Hell
  • Every Man

• I love tuning into Radio 1 on a Friday night after training and hearing the new stuff.

  

  Adam Peaty
  • Love
  • Night
  • Training

• 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.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Think
  • Career
  • Look

• Just as dyed hair makes older men less attractive, it is what you do to hide your weaknesses that makes them repugnant.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Men
  • Hair

• 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.

  

  Jacob Bronowski
  • Mind
  • Reality
  • Words

• 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.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Habit

• Let me tell you, when you're pregnant with the first one, it's great of course, all new and 'Yay!' With the second one it's still okay; you can pay attention to number one and she can share in the joy of the pregnancy.

  

  Angie Harmon
  • Great
  • She
  • Attention

• 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.

  

  Blake Griffin
  • Up
  • Guy
  • Free

• I still think in a parallel universe, I became a mathematician.

  

  Ken Liu
  • Universe

• To join a great club is nice and all, but you have to play the games.

  

  Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang
  • Great
  • Nice

• The one thing that I cannot live without when I'm traveling is a small container of tea tree oil. It's not the most glamorous thing, but if you get a cut, a mosquito bite, a small breakout, no matter what it is, it's my little cure-all. It's inexpensive, it's small enough to carry on, and I bring it with me all the time.

  

  Meghan Markle
  • Time
  • Live
  • Small

• I don't think the record company is aware of it. Because they just bury my albums and don't release them.

  

  Les Baxter

• So, practice, particularly after you've attained a job, any kind of job, like playing with a four piece band, that's... an opportunity to develop.

  

  Buddy Rich
  • Job
  • Opportunity
  • Band

• When opportunity presents itself grab it. Hold on tight and don’t let go.

  

  Celia Cruz
  • Opportunity