Gloria Estefan Quotes
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Nuclear power plants must be prepared to withstand everything from earthquakes to tsunamis, from fires to floods to acts of terrorism.
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If you're thin-skinned, you don't belong doing what I do for a living.
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Most actors go, 'I read the script and fell in love with it'; I fall in love with the directors.
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Nobody can be exactly like me. Even I have trouble doing it.
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I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.
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I found one had to do some work every day, even at midnight, because either you're professional or you're not.
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Chicago is one city. We shall work as one people for our common good and our common goals.
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I don't think I can play Mr. Bachchan.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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I started traveling by myself as early as 5 to see my dad. I'd go to Toronto or Los Angeles, depending on what show he was doing, but most often New York, and we would hang out, and he'd take me to museums and Broadway plays. The ones that had the biggest impact on me were the George C. Wolfe productions.
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I had been impressed by the fact that biological systems were based on molecular machines and that we were learning to design and build these sorts of things.
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I feel like I'm not the greatest general manager in the history of general managers, but I do OK, and I'm learning as I go. I try to just do my best with it.
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I don't have to be a size zero anymore. But I still want to feel and look good.
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Spiritual infirmities such as tepidity are caused, not only by chills but also by fevers, that is, by excessive zeal.
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The truth only irritates those it enlightens, but does not convert.
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That's been the most exciting part of the show - incorporating the magic and the acrobats and the singing and dancing to make our 'Pippin.'
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I like music that's more offensive. I like it to sound like nails on a blackboard, get me wild.
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The main thing that you have to remember on this journey is, just be nice to everyone and always smile.
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I don't own an ABBA album, and I never had the urge to go and buy one. If you're just talking about well crafted pop songs, they were fantastic.
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The arts are what humanize science and history.
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Being a woman in music was fine, but when I wanted to direct, I was poking my head into a man's world.
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I'm a self-confessed geek, and my whole concept of music at first was entirely electronic. In many ways, it turned out to be an advantage. I was so green, so utterly naive about the nature of classical music, that I did things that made me look totally, deliberately unorthodox.
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I'm 5' 11" as I proudly say - just so I don't have to say six feet.
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My guitar and singing was my way of crying.
