Gloria Estefan Quotes
[My mother] closed the school the next day [after a visit from Castro's soldiers], because she knew that the purpose of education was the broadening and opening of children's minds. And she couldn't be a party to the systematic closing of minds, borders, freedoms and ideals.
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I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.
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I think the next set of media companies are going to be created on the web and that YouTube is going to be a big part of that.
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Every movie, especially when you get involved... takes something out of you. You learn something, but you give something to the movie. And after the movie, if the experience has been intense and a true experience, you're a little different afterward.
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You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.
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I learn something not because I have to, but because I really want to. That's the same view I have for performing. I'm performing because I really want to, not because I have to bring bread back home.
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One of the strangest aspects of living with certain kinds of memory loss is knowing that the forgetting is happening.
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Environmental agencies in China are hamstrung by local officials who put economic growth ahead of environmental protection; even the courts are beholden to local officials, and they are not open to environmental litigation.
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Thank God for the potholes on memory lane.
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Television shows and movies that are all white, I can't watch them. They totally alienate me.
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Most artists I run into aren't that thrilled with what they do anyway. They are glad to have different versions out there to see which one the audience likes the best.
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In dating, the question is how many Tinder knockoffs are we going to have, and are any of them going to take off?
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Where I live, nobody who's fourteen is having sex and doing major drugs. And I think if you see it in the movies, you may be influenced by it. I think it's so important to preserve your innocence.
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I actually have an ice-skating background. I skated until I was 15, for about eight years. It was hardcore skating for about eight hours a day.
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I'd always wanted to do a Marvel project, and I'd always imagined getting to play one of the superheroes because it's such a hard thing to get. It's the parts that only go to a few people. The flip side of that is the antagonists are pretty awesome.
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I think I'd be a great mom, honestly. I don't think I'll have any problem giving them all the love in the world. Discipline will be the hard part.
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I am a very reserved person and have very few friends in the industry, while most of my close ones are from school and college.
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The woman with dark hair, wide hips, and a few extra pounds has always been the essence of beauty in Morocco.
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I was about to give up acting when I got the call about being short-listed for 'Dangal.'
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My parents opened a bank account for me when I was really little, and I think I paid for some of my university education with my savings. I've always been a bit of a saver.
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The voice of parents is the voice of gods, for to their children they are heaven's lieutenants.
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I said we needed to organize women around the world to push peace.
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If you say I'm great, thank you very much. But I know what I am. I could be better, man, you know?
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Self-esteem is the greatest sickness known to man or woman because it's conditional.
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[My mother] closed the school the next day [after a visit from Castro's soldiers], because she knew that the purpose of education was the broadening and opening of children's minds. And she couldn't be a party to the systematic closing of minds, borders, freedoms and ideals.
