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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• 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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• A man is a very small thing, and the night is very large and full of wonders.

  

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• I do believe I begin to grasp the nature of miracles! For would it be a miracle, if there was any reason for it? Miracles have nothing to do with reason. Miracles contradict reason, they strike clean across mere human deserts, and deliver and save where they will. If they made sense, they would not be miracles.

  

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• When I grew up, my role model was my grandma because she's just the best.

  

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• I let the streets talk to me. The streets speak to you - how you find out what's new, what people are wearing, what people aren't wearing.

  

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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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