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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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I'm like a sight gag.
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I believe in aging gracefully.
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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.
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Quality attracts quality. People want to be on a good show.
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I would rather lose a good earring than be caught without make-up.
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Sometimes I'm more stubborn than I am smart.
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I'd probably put myself in the top 1% in knowledge of blight in the city of Detroit.
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But what I really like are old Hollywood movies. Very often I watch AMC.
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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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I try to make my mood uplifting and peaceful, then watch the world around me reflect that mood.
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Fellini was a little lofty for a teenage boy, but certainly he was a huge influence.
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I tend to look for the good in bad people and the bad in good people, to make them human. 'Cause I don't think that people generally are that black and white. Maybe in movie-land they can be... but that isn't necessarily all there is.
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It's counterproductive to lower my price, because I have to sell more units to make up for that lost revenue. Generating brand-new products can take a long time. Improving service is typically the quickest way that I can take market share. So aligning technology strategy to better service customers becomes an essential path to revenue growth.
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She had the power to destroy. I had only seen the power to love. When you discovered both, who could figure out what to do with that?
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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.
