Gloria Estefan Quotes
If you discover a word in my book that you don't understand, ask your parents so they can look it up in the dictionary for you.
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If I'm playing with Ozzy it's just a guitar thing. But with the vocals I feel like I'm studying for the SATs.
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For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.
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We artists have the dignity to tell the truth to the people, unlike politicians.
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I was always very determined and ambitious, and I knew I would do something that would let me travel and stuff, but I didn't know really know what I would do to get there.
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Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.
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Every burn on my body has had its own different personality. And all of them needed different things.
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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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I was quite keen on silviculture, the growing of trees, and that was something I gave a lot of thought to. Maybe I could've gone in that direction. But it just so happened that while I was trying to make up my mind, I enrolled in art school, and there I began to develop my interest in music, parallel with my interest in the visual arts.
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I am passionate about what design can do - how far it can support the new ideas and the new ways of living of this 21st Century. Good design accelerates this exciting future where manufacturing is local, materials and processes are cradle to cradle, business models are both socially and financially driven.
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Plus, I am paranoid by nature. I need to be in control.
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Appearance is something absolute, but reality is not that way - everything is interdependent, not absolute.
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I write my own songs. I made my own videos. I pick my producers. Nothing goes out without my permission. It's all authentic.
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When someone saves your life and gives you life, there's gratitude, humility; there's a time you've been so blessed you realize you've been given another chance at life that maybe you did or didn't deserve.
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I always had to genuinely like the actors I worked with and use my enthusiasm and vision to give them confidence to push their creativity and their humor.
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Yes, my parents are strict about me having a childhood. I go ice skating and sledding, and swimming in the summer.
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When I did 'Alien: Resurrection', a lot of the guys worked on planned production, and one of them was really into comic books and would draw all sorts of characters, and I was impressed with his sketches.
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Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell.
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In sleep, you are safe from the revolting mechanics of living and being a prey to outrageous fortune.
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I'm a lot less precious than I used to be about putting things out, for better or for worse. The result of a public that has a very high consumption rate and turnover rate is people listen to more music but spend less time with individual bits of music.
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What I'm doing with my body and with my golf game, I'm trying to extend the longevity of my career.
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I always wanted to play music and have it be my career and knew this by the age of 12.
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I always knew that I wanted to work on my own material - something that would be more long-lasting than short-lived electronic transmissions.
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When you read about a car crash in which two or three youngsters are killed, do you pause to dwell on the amount of love and treasure and patience parents poured into bodies no longer suitable for open caskets?
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If you discover a word in my book that you don't understand, ask your parents so they can look it up in the dictionary for you.
