Gloria Estefan Quotes
Being Latin parents makes us extremely expressive with our affections.
Quotes to Explore
-
I felt unhappy and trapped. If I left baseball, where could I go, what could I do to earn enough money to help my mother and to marry Rachel? The solution to my problem was only days away in the hands of a tough, shrewd, courageous man called Branch Rickey, the president of the Brooklyn Dodgers.
-
We do high heels, and people know us for that, but the idea of wearing a flat from day to night feels special.
-
If monarchy is corrupting - and it is - wait till you see what overt empire does to us.
-
I don't get star-struck at all.
-
The rehearsal is where it all happens for an actor.
-
I travel a lot, and that makes it harder to date, but it also opens up opportunities for me to meet people where I wouldn't normally meet them.
-
Buying a matching blouse and skirt from the same store is a crime. A clever mix of chic and cheap hits the jackpot. Know how to mix styles and labels.
-
My mum was a child minder, but now she fosters. My dad was in the police force, and now he's a private detective.
-
I've dealt with a lot of couples over the years, and most cite the battle for closet and bathroom space as one of the most frequent causes of marital discord.
-
The Enlightenment, the Age of Reason, is seen as the beginning of modern depravity.
-
You can really taste the difference between a shop-bought and a good homemade mayo.
-
On my actual 16th birthday, on the actual day, I went home and I had chicken korma and Peshwari naan bread and pilau rice, and that was fantastic.
-
You know, we don't have any decorative sprigs of rosemary; we're not placing little matchstick radishes onto an hors d'oeuvre... The food's gotta taste good. The concept's gotta taste good.
-
We are like a woman with a difficult pregnancy. We have to rebuild the social classes in Egypt, and we must change the way things were.
-
I had a lousy marriage and I drank too much.
-
I support gay unions. I think the government should get out of the marriage business completely - leave marriages to the churches. And grant civil unions to gay couples, grant civil unions to a man and woman.
-
I am sometimes sad when I hear the personal stories of Tibetan refugees who have been tortured or beaten. Some irritation, some anger comes. But it never lasts long. I always try to think at a deeper level, to find ways to console.
-
Theatre is how I first encountered art on any level.
-
I had never done a roast, but I really wanted to, because it's so different from standup.
-
I don't mind being in studios, and I don't mind being out in nature. They're two different ways of making movies.
-
There's nothing that's impossible to me. You can ask my parents.
-
Like millions of parents, I chose to send my children to a religious school that shares my belief system, which is central to my life. I objected to changes in the school that, in my opinion, did not reflect that belief system.
-
I've been making Bass Communion music longer than any kind of other music. I don't know if you picked up a copy of a vinyl release I put out a couple of years ago of something called Altamont.
-
Being Latin parents makes us extremely expressive with our affections.
