Gloria Estefan Quotes
My inspirations include the Beatles - love, love, love them - Elton John, Carole King, and Stevie Wonder.
Quotes to Explore
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'Heroes' really changed the game for me in a way that nothing before it had.
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In America, people think being South Asian is still kind of exotic. When you go outside New York and Chicago and L.A., there are people who have never tried Indian food... they've never even tasted it!
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When you're in your early 20s your love life seems to explode every 20 minutes or so. By the time you've reached your thirties, it is every five or ten years.
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From my tribe I take nothing, I am the maker of my own fortune.
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All the body wants to do biologically is decompose. Once you die, it's, 'Let me out here! I'm ready to shoot my atoms back into the universe!'
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I've never experienced complete terror, knock on wood, or running for my life or any of that.
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Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate.
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I always fall in love with qualities of people I work with.
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Whenever you're in a relationship, you have that favorite song that reminds you of when you first got together or when you first kissed, and then every time you hear that song, it reminds you of that person.
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The last paragraph, in which you tell what the story is about, is almost always best left out.
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We need to write books that publicists and marketers and booksellers and book club leaders and librarians and readers can get excited about. That have something about them that makes them stand out. That makes them shine.
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People review my comic books. People review every article I write - 'The Atlantic' even publishes them. A great deal of the critique of 'Between the World and Me' was from a feminist perspective. bell hooks pushed back, among others. Some of that has value. Some of it does not. I try my best to separate the wheat from the chaff.
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A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value.
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In Japan, there's a TV series called Jin. It deals with time travel. I like stories about time travel. It's a story about people living in modern day that travel back to the Edo era. Those things really interest me.
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I'm all for being in love and whenever I like someone, I end up pretty much completely smitten.
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I will never sell Flipkart.
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Collectivism and freedom are mortal enemies. Only one will survive.
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As supportive as my hometown is, in my high school, there are people who would probably walk up to me and punch me in the face. There's a select few that will never like me. They don't like what I stand for. They don't like somebody who stands for being sober, who stands for anything happy. They're going to be negative no matter what.
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In terms of experience with the police, everybody got those. It's such a reality.
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Bruce sees a lot of himself in Batman, you know? You could argue that something even worse than what happened to Bruce happened to Duke's parents, who are now Joker-ized. They're not just gone or irretrievably lost. And I'm NOT curing them, so you can put that out there! There's no relief from that.
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The quality I most loved in Warhol - it was his sense of wonder. I mean, he was - absolutely everything was, 'Oh my God, isn't that wonderful!'. You know, and so it wasn't that he was cool and kind of calculated at all. He was very childlike.
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It is a poor reverie which invites a nap. One must even wonder whether, in this "failing asleep", the subconscious itself does not undergo a decline in being.
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I am very big into superheroes.
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My inspirations include the Beatles - love, love, love them - Elton John, Carole King, and Stevie Wonder.
