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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He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.
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Effective translation of natural languages comes awfully close to requiring a sentient translator program.
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Sir, I see a lot of documents in my day-to-day business, and I can't tell you every document that I've seen. It may have passed across my desk. It may not have passed across my desk. I truthfully cannot answer that question, other than to say I don't remember.
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I think the reason I choose the comic approach so often is because it's harder, therefore affording me the opportunity to show off.
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Don't wait for the right opportunity: create it.
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When opportunity presents itself grab it. Hold on tight and don’t let go.
