Gloria Estefan Quotes

[After a poor prognosis for recovery from her doctor following her 1990 bus accident] I said if it is up to me, I'm going to be OK.

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• I remember when I was growing up. My great wish was to understand who I was and how I fit in the world.

  

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• Broadway is really my life.

  

  Vanessa Williams
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• When I started off in England, HMV or Tower Records would come to meetings and be, like, 'We just don't know what this genre is.' I don't really fit in between Rihanna and Beyonce.

  

  M.I.A.
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• I'm honored that I'm in history, but I don't think it would mean anything if it doesn't change anything.

  

  Raha Moharrak
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• In some ways, my most comfortable feeling has been that of being an outsider coming in, but over the years I've tired of that and I'm ready to feel at home. That's what music gives me: a feeling of absolute home.

  

  Abigail Washburn
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• It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.

  

  Vidal Sassoon
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• The chemotherapy was very peculiar, something that makes you feel much worse than the cancer itself, a very nasty thing. I used to go to treatment on my own, and nearly everybody else was with somebody. I wouldn't have liked that. Why would you want to make anybody sit in those places?

  

  Maggie Smith
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• There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • World
  • Look
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• I'm like a sight gag.

  

  Adam Driver
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• I believe in aging gracefully.

  

  Tatjana Patitz
  • Believe
  • I Believe
  • Aging

• It's hard because I think I fall into this in-between space where there's something that's innately feminine about me, and there's also something that's kind of androgynous. I carry myself somewhere in between, and I think my music lends itself to that as well.

  

  Halsey
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• Quality attracts quality. People want to be on a good show.

  

  Oscar Nunez
  • People
  • Good
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• I would rather lose a good earring than be caught without make-up.

  

  Lana Turner
  • Up
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• Sometimes I'm more stubborn than I am smart.

  

  Pat Summitt
  • Smart
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• I'd probably put myself in the top 1% in knowledge of blight in the city of Detroit.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • Knowledge
  • City
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• But what I really like are old Hollywood movies. Very often I watch AMC.

  

  Olivier Martinez
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  • Old
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• I could probably give you a list of a dozen pet peeves I have about my own physicality and why I couldn't get a second date.

  

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• EmTech Asia brings together some of the brightest minds in technology and computer security.

  

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• When you're old, you are more certain of who you are, and that may be a good thing or a bad thing.

  

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• Life is like riding a bicycle: you don't fall off unless you stop pedaling.

  

  Claude Pepper
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  • Stop
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• American values, or Americanism, refers to what I call the 'American Trinity': 'Liberty,' 'In God We Trust,' and 'E Pluribus Unum' ('Out of Many, One'), the three values that appear on all American coins.

  

  Dennis Prager
  • God
  • American
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• What I see with the utility industry is, more and more, we're taking up this belief that our workforce, our leadership ranks, our board should be reflective of the community that we serve.

  

  Geisha Williams
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  • Leadership

• I'm a huge fan of Canadian rock-and-roll. When I was growing up, Rush came out with a record called Hemispheres, and I must have listened to that record for two years straight. Even when I was asleep I had it on. So, yeah, whenever I hear a Rush tune, the first thing I think of is Toronto.

  

  Kiefer Sutherland
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  • Growing
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• [After a poor prognosis for recovery from her doctor following her 1990 bus accident] I said if it is up to me, I'm going to be OK.

  

  Gloria Estefan Miami Sound Machine
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