Gloria Estefan Quotes
Wherever there's a human being there's going to be somebody that tries to hold you back.
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There are two of my favorite books, 'The Great Gatsby' and 'Gone With The Wind', that were made into movies. And I love those movies as much as I love the books. That's really rare.
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Attention may sound dull, but it is an essential aspect of consciousness. In fact, it governs what it is that we turn out to be conscious of, and therefore plays a part in the coming into being of whatever exists for us.
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At the end of the day, I remain a country boy inside.
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In L.A., wives can fly on the plane; with the Yankees, they can't. With other teams, the wives always have functions to bring them together. Not here. You don't know what half the wives look like.
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In Ethiopia, democracy is in its infancy and it must be nurtured along by its leaders.
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No one knows quite the reason, but surgically severing the corpus callosum can reduce the rate and intensity of seizures. So in the early 1960s, a few patients with severe epilepsy had their corpus callosums cut, turning them into split-brain people.
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The WWE is based on, I think, reaction. You know, if you can't get a reaction, that means you can't put butts in the seats.
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I insist, that if there is any thing which it is the duty of the whole people to never entrust to any hands but their own, that thing is the preservation and perpetuity, of their own liberties, and institutions.
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Elections have consequences, and at the end of the day, I won. So I think on that one I trump you.
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Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is always Judas who writes the biography.
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Laws are made with such attention to protecting women that, if a man's constitutional rights conflict with a woman's protection, his rights disintegrate before her protection disintegrates.
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Even on the most solemn occasions I got away without wearing socks and hid that lack of civilisation in high boots.
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We've seen the hubris. And now we're seeing the scandals.
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A defining moment takes a long time to get over, if you ever do.
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The way I run my business seems to be easier than the way I run my life.
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I think it's your mental attitude. So many of us start dreading age in high school and that's a waste of a lovely life. 'Oh... I'm 30, oh, I'm 40, oh, 50.' Make the most of it.
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In Quakerism, your understanding of God is revised in light of your own experience, while in research science, you revise your model in light of data from experiments.
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Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted than when we read it in the original author?
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Wisdom and eloquence are not always united.
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I think we have a moral obligation to our children that can be easily summarized: number one, protect them from harm.
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Wittgenstein's ruler: 'Unless you have confidence in the ruler's reliability, if you use a ruler to measure a table you may also be using the table to measure the ruler.' (page 224)
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I have a doggy, a Japanese Akita, who I live to play with.
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We were the daughters of the post-World War II American dream, the daughters of those idealized fifties sitcom families in which father knew best and mother knew her place and a kind of disappointment, and tense, unspoken sexuality rattled around like ice cubes in their nightly cocktails.
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Wherever there's a human being there's going to be somebody that tries to hold you back.
