Celia Cruz Quotes

My English is not very good-looking.

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• My view is that innovation has declined in the everyday processes that businesses tinker with incrementally as they try to become more productive over time.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Time
  • Everyday
  • Innovation

• Every decision to use military force is an excruciatingly difficult one.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Decision
  • Military
  • Force

• Mental health needs a great deal of attention. It's the final taboo and it needs to be faced and dealt with.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • Great
  • Attention
  • Health

• The purpose of a business is to create customers.

  

  Sam Wyly
  • Business
  • Purpose
  • Create

• One is sometimes meant to reassure the reader that she's qualified to write about a certain topic.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • She
  • Sometimes
  • Write

• We are in the entertainment business and we all know if you are top of the tree you get the big money. Those of us who have been in it are the fortunate ones but we understand that we probably don't deserve it as much as the nurses or teachers.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Money
  • Business
  • Tree

• Every stumble is not a fall, and every fall does not mean failure.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Fall
  • Mean
  • Failure

• It's hard to remember, when you look at a magazine or when you look at pictures of people, and you forget that those people are people like you. They have flaws and insecurities. That's so easy to forget, even for me, as somebody who's sometimes in those magazines.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • People
  • Remember
  • Me

• My grandmother got her law degree from Syracuse University in roughly 1911 and later co-founded with her husband an investment banking firm on Wall Street known as Lebenthal & Co.

  

  H. G. Bissinger
  • Law
  • Husband
  • Wall

• I have a lot of energy after 2 A.M. I like to sleep in the morning. I have some problems at the start of the day.

  

  Valentino Rossi
  • Energy
  • Day
  • Morning

• And I've always believed in what Martin Luther King, Jr. called 'the fierce urgency of now' - we should not fear change, we should embrace it.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Fear
  • King
  • Fierce

• I claim the right not to incriminate myself.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos

• Sound peculiarly appeals to memory.

  

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

• 'He is a lesser figure than X'-how it pleases an Englishman to say that! Never suspecting what basement that would put him in, a wood louse.

  

  Elias Canetti

• All explorers are seeking something they have lost. It is seldom that they find it, and more seldom still that the attainment brings them greater happiness than the quest.

  

  Arthur C. Clarke
  • Lost

• A positive pressure produces an attractive gravitational field... Positive pressures are just sort of normal pressures and attractive gravity is normal gravity, so normal pressures produce normal gravity, but it is possible to have negative pressures, and negative pressures produce repulsive gravity, and that's the secret of what makes inflation possible.

  

  Alan Guth
  • Positive

• I was ordered not to go out to Abu Ghraib after dark early on, because Abu Ghraib was extremely dangerous.

  

  Janis Karpinski
  • Dark

• I love my man as my fellow; but his scepter, real, or usurped, extends not to me, unless the reason of an individual demands my homage; and even then the submission is to reason, and not to man.

  

  Mary Wollstonecraft
  • Real

• I have seen players and coaches come and go, but through it all, I have always known Cleveland is where I want to retire. But life doesn't always work the way you want it to, and at the end of the day, the saying, 'This is a business,' is unfortunately true.

  

  Anderson Varejao
  • Life
  • Work
  • Business

• I lost my wife Barbara to cancer few years ago. I would give whatever time I have left to spend one more day with her.

  

  W. P. Kinsella
  • Time
  • Giving
  • Lost

• I do worry that it's impossible to write something original, that there's nothing that a human hasn't already thought of. But I can put it out of my mind and get on with what I'm doing.

  

  Arthur Phillips
  • Mind
  • Worry

• In writing 'The Satanic Verses,' I think I was writing for the first time from the whole of myself. The English part, the Indian part. The part of me that loves London, and the part that longs for Bombay. And at my typewriter, alone, I could indulge this.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Alone

• A lot of Latinos are like me: third generation, English speaking.

  

  Al Madrigal
  • English

• My English is not very good-looking.

  

  Celia Cruz
  • English