Gloria Estefan Quotes
The last thing I wanted to do was put politics into my music... because music was my escape.
Quotes to Explore
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I brought several national projects to Katihar.
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Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
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I literally was saved by a role, from becoming a cab driver. I never did have to wait tables, though, so looking back I guess I had it pretty soft.
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We need to bring sustainable energy to every corner of the globe with technologies like solar energy mini-grids, solar powered lights, and wind turbines.
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I can't understand artists that don't want to perform and, like, get on stage and do their songs for all their fans every night.
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If I wasn't five-foot, I wouldn't be who I am! My size is a huge part of me.
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Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.
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Christianity, democracy, science, education, wealth, and the cumulative inheritance of a thousand years, have not preserved us from the vain repetition of history.
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I am such a do-goody, people-pleasing kid - or I was - I don't think I've ever been fired, not even from an ice cream shop, magician for kids' parties, not even in my early jobs in radio.
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Yoghurt cuts sweetness and richness, tempers spice, and makes a dish sing.
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When I eat something like vegetable bibimbap, I get that warm and fuzzy feeling of eating stuff that I grew up with.
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As a viewer, the minute I start getting confused, I check out of the movie. Emotionally, I'm severed.
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It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.
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Raised by an irresponsible mother during the Great Depression in the Jim Crow south, my father was on his own from the age of 13.
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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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As goes California, so goes the rest of the nation.
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I like someone who's not afraid to be a kid!
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When I interview celebrities, I always try to throw them off balance. My favorite is to ask 'em about crazy sex stuff like donkey punches and Monroe transfers. Works every time.
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I've always been working just to be a world champion and it's a dream come true.
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My connection with Basquiat was really in Los Angeles, which really was a whole different world to what he was experiencing in New York.
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At the same time, I must personally say that I do question the sincerity and nonviolent intentions of some civil rights leaders such as Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Mr. James Farmer, and others, who are known to have left wing associations.
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Hopefully, at the end of all this, my music is going to be used as a tool to help people have meaningful conversations and meaningful relationships with themselves and with other people and with God.
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The last thing I wanted to do was put politics into my music... because music was my escape.
