Celia Cruz Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
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?
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
I love to be in front of big galleries.
-
If you want to do something, what does it matter where you are ranked?
-
Before, boxing was something that I did. Now, boxing is who I am.
Mandy Bujold -
Every man is his own hell.
-
I love tuning into Radio 1 on a Friday night after training and hearing the new stuff.
-
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.
-
Just as dyed hair makes older men less attractive, it is what you do to hide your weaknesses that makes them repugnant.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
I still think in a parallel universe, I became a mathematician.
-
Show business is my life.
-
Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious.
-
We haven't had any fatalities with this particular product, ... But whenever we see broken limbs, particularly when it's in a situation where it's your bed, it's a very serious problem.
-
I will say that I appreciate Hillary Clinton's awareness and passion for women. I think she is overqualified in the sense that she's been in the White House, so she knows the drill. I am hopeful that she will continue to support minorities and create better opportunities.
-
When opportunity presents itself grab it. Hold on tight and don’t let go.
