Gloria Estefan Quotes
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So people think I'm lying about my age all the time? It's the records that are wrong. I've never told anyone how old I am. The minute they ask me, I say 'That's none of your business.' So that means I've never once lied about my age. Now that's true!
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I'm regularly speaking at London Business School and Harvard Business School. They're the next generation of leaders in the fashion industry.
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Startups on the inside are always badly broken.
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Every child matters. If we fail our children, we are bound to fail our present, our future, faith, cultures, and civilisations as well.
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To win Olympic gold has been a dream for me for seven or eight years now, so it was amazing to actually achieve that.
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I became so consumed with trying to live up to what the public expected that I lost myself. I don't know of anyone else who can say this.
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When my babe was born, they said it was premature. It weighed only four pounds; but God let it live.
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If you've been married for 400 years, as I have, it's nice to experience first love again and you can vicariously through a book.
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I love writers who limit themselves, who write beneath their intelligence.
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'…Just you bloody hypocrites with your four wives and your ten thousand houris in heaven?…'
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I don't ever put down bands.
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It is heartrending to read the entries in many an old family Bible - the records of suffering, distress, and blasted hopes.
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When I read the diary of former 'Daily Mirror' editor Piers Morgan, I realised it was a tough old world to be part of.
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I got into writing to become a 'Star Trek' writer. I was a rabid fan. I had shelves and shelves and shelves of action figures in my bedroom that scared away more dates than I care to admit to.
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I don't like to use the words 'real women,' honestly. I like to use the word 'woman.' And I say that because there are so many women out there who are naturally thin or are naturally curvy, and I think when we start putting a label on the type of woman, it gets misconstrued and starts to offend people.
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All our words and acts are passing in review before God.
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I don't want to be the angry guy.
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The first time I heard Tom Waits, it was like everything just flipped. It was just this fascination with him. My cousin showed me 'Small Change,' and I just couldn't get over that this was a white guy singing.
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The constitution is the ultimate custodian of social will and its making should be accorded all due diligence.
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A pessimist is a person who is always right but doesn't get any enjoyment out of it, while an optimist, is one who imagines that the future is uncertain. It is a duty to be an optimist, because if you imagine that the future is uncertain, then you mu
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Intellectuals tend to be arrogant. Intelligence, like money, is a good servant but a bad master. When practicing pranayama, the yogi [makes] himself humble and without pride in his intellectual attainments.
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If we look long enough and hard enough ... we will begin to see the connections that bind us together, and when we recognize those connections, we will begin to change the world.
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I love Gershwin. I love musicals.
