Gloria Estefan Quotes
Getting this caliber of musicians together [for "90 Millas" CD in September of 2007] is almost impossible to do again.

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We do not celebrate people who have made success out of serious hard work.
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
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I don't know that much about who directs what movies, but I'm definitely inspired by the look of old movies; I find them to be really beautiful.
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To take part in this brothel through the payment of my taxes, that had become to me unbearable.
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I'm an all-or-nothing person.
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Hockey is a unique sport in the sense that you need each and every guy helping each other and pulling in the same direction to be successful.
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I like the map feature on the iPhone that tells me where I am, because I travel a lot.
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I originally got into this because of a five-year-old's begrudgery of his teacher. Mrs. Lawlor cast me as a tree, and I was disgusted. I was sure I had more to offer than that. It was like, 'OK, if you want me to be set dressing, fine, I'll take it on the chin but I'll show you - I'm going to be a big actor some day.'
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It's easy to forget the ever-plodding eBay with all the noise made by the more lithe and lively Web 2.0 companies.
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Only very brave mouse makes nest in cat's ear.
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I don't need fame any more. People are less interested in me in terms of celebrity. I'm happy to see a new generation being the media focus. I'm happy my day is done. It's over.
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When you have a 'solution thinking mindset' - and choose to focus 80% of your thoughts/words on solutions - you will not only be heading more speedily to long-term success, but you will immediately feel better in the moment.
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When the news wants to tell you something is important, they put dramatic theme music behind it. They scare you into watching the story.
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An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.
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I hope we've got a lot of fairways and greens. We'll go from there.
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Only remember west of the Mississippi it's a little more look, see, act. A little less rationalize, comment, talk.
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But what is after all the happiness of mere power? There is a greater happiness possible than to be lord of heaven and earth; that is the happiness of being truly loved.
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Activism is very seductive, and writing is painful and hard. It's very scary to have a death threat living over your head. Activism is very sustaining. But I don't view myself as a political person. I'm just someone who desperately wants to stay alive.
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We worked out a lot of bugs and figured out who was working and who wasn't and how this beast functions. It was a lot bigger than we actually thought, and now we have a well-run ship where it feels I can actually have time to imagine and not just stress out about everything.
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None of the kids in the neighborhood had dogs. My dad walked in that Labrador, and we started running together and rolling around together like we found each other after years apart. And then, suddenly, some of the other people in the neighborhood started getting dogs, too.
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One of my favorite times of year is around Christmas when my entire family gets together and we make tamales together. It's a full two-day event, and we create an assembly line. It's awesome because everyone has his or her own part in making the dish. It's so much fun.
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One of the things I give Nancy Pelosi a lot of credit for is that she's able to get things passed and hold her members together because she shows us that she's doing everything possible to get our views into these bills.
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Getting this caliber of musicians together [for "90 Millas" CD in September of 2007] is almost impossible to do again.