Gloria Estefan Quotes
I wanted to talk to very young kids about self-image and about being different and how that can be your strength, especially from the immigrant perspective.
Quotes to Explore
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Yes, all fundamentalists feel that in a secular society, God has been relegated to the margin, to the periphery and they are all in different ways seeking to drag him out of that peripheral position, back to center stage.
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The good news is that parents are the leading influence on kids' decision not to drink alcohol.
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To die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.
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Appropriate assessments are a crucial part of effectively educating students. But they only measure a narrow segment of what kids need to learn.
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What I find so interesting about people is the choices they make, and how that effects their behavior, their sense of self and their relationships.
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Music rhythms are mathematical patterns. When you hear a song and your body starts moving with it, your body is doing math. The kids in their parents' garage practicing to be a band may not realize it, but they're also practicing math.
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Doing a TV show is different because it's more of a TV version of something. A more focused take on things.
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Dave Chappelle is one of my comedic inspirations. His perspective is crazy, and he's super sharp.
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My time at Shell was a most valuable experience because it taught me to look at the world in a long-term way. Shell takes a 20-year view on events and plans for different scenarios. It makes you see the world as a kind of large matrix.
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If you are playing someone living, it is a different type of judgment. However much work you do, it is not a documentary. There will be things you can't get right, and ultimately, you have to take a leap because - you weren't there.
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My wife and I have a tradition of popcorn and videos with our kids on Friday evenings.
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Nobody talks about how Puffy went to Howard University or about Lil Wayne attending the University of Houston. All the young kids know is what they see on the videos. They don't realize that these guys have taken managerial and business courses, and know how to brand and how to market themselves. They're very smart.
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I think it's difficult for young people to acknowledge being smart, to knowledge being a reader. I see kids who are embarrassed to read books. They're embarrassed to have people see them doing it.
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I really have no preference between TV and film. I think that each individual project is its own thing and has a very different style.
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I wanted to make good records. But my problem is I've got a low boredom threshold, so I wanted it to look and sound different with each album, which is really tantamount to suicide, cause people lose it, they lose it - they say: 'I like that, and that's not this.'
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Anyone who still supports George Bush would still let Michael Jackson babysit their kids.
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We are all several different people. There are different aspects of our nature that are competing.
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I'm a little skeptical of foreign coaches in our league and in U.S. Soccer just because of how different our league is and our players are than other players around the world.
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It's nice to have a few names. I use a few names myself. I use a few different surnames. I call myself James sometimes. I actually use my mother's name as a professional name. But if someone calls me Mr. Murphy or Mr. Gillen, I don't like that. I don't like being called 'mister,' and I don't like being called 'sir.'
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I don't view myself as a musician anymore - I view myself as a human being that functions as a musician when I'm functioning as a musician, but that's not 24 hours a day. That's really opened me up to even more perspectives because now I look at music, not from the standpoint of being a musician, but from the standpoint of being a human being.
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Back when the EPA proposed phasing out ozone-depleting CFCs, the chemical industry howled that refrigerators would fail in America's supermarkets, hospitals and schools.
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Let your diet be spare, your wants moderate, your needs few. So, living modestly, with no distracting desires, you will find content.
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I wanted to talk to very young kids about self-image and about being different and how that can be your strength, especially from the immigrant perspective.
