Gloria Estefan Quotes
I don't want anything from Cuba. I want them to be free and enjoy the things I enjoy.
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I wasn't a visionary but I literally had my finger on the pulse of the women of America.
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Ideas are elusive, slippery things. Best to keep a pad of paper and a pencil at your bedside, so you can stab them during the night before they get away.
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I'm quite an odd little part of the Venn diagram. I'm not a movie star and beautiful in that way. I do an odd thing that's funny and sad, and my face and my old body can take that.
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You begin to realize that the genius of our country is the constant push to be more inclusive and find new ways of engaging everyone.
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I search for surprise in my architecture. A work of art should cause the emotion of newness.
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I think it is the fact that birds are two-legged, like us, which gives them something of our balance and gesture and makes them nearer to us.
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Suggesting a married Jesus is one thing, but questioning the Resurrection undermines the very heart of Christian belief.
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We've got to step up our conservation efforts before it's too late. We're not protecting our lands and natural resources. Take the Grand Canyon for example; I'm sure that at one time it was a beautiful piece of land, and just look at the way we've let it go.
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I certainly went to high school with some mean girls, and I would not wish that hell on anybody.
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As long as people have been making little people, they've wanted to know how not to.
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For me, I never, never, from the moment I started acting, had a desire to be famous.
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Yes, I'm proud to be indigenous. I'm half-Quechua-Huachipaeri from Peru.
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The most precious things in speech are pauses.
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Chuck Cooper is a friend, and I adore him. He can do so many things.
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Someone like Amy Poehler, I don't know, but I feel like I know her. I think everyone feels like they know her.
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Don't you dare print my first name. That would make me sound like a real country girl.
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A society in which vocation and job are separated for most people gradually creates an economy that is often devoid of spirit, one that frequently fills our pocketbooks at the cost of emptying our souls.
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In reality, serial killers are of average intelligence.
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I think the success of a film is very important to an actor. It depends on how many people go to watch your movies; the more the merrier. Nobody wants to do a film for five people. You work so hard that millions of people watch the movie; this is directly related to box office success.
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A message to women in general is be happy with yourself first. Be sure that you take care of yourself and find yourself. Be comfortable! And you will be way more appealing. Do what's best for you, and everything will fall into place.
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I asked the producers when I was doing 'Y Tu Mama Tambien' if they could give me a VHS recording of the film that I could show to my family, because in Mexico and Latin America, when you do a film, you don't expect anybody to see it, especially not in the cinema.
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So much success from set pieces comes from practice. Maybe fans see a well-worked free-kick and think it looks good, but to get that, there has been hours of work that nobody has seen on the training ground.
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I don't ever want to be the type of person to tell you what to think or what to believe. Whatever stage in your life that you are in, I want you to organically reach whatever conclusions that you possibly reach.
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I don't want anything from Cuba. I want them to be free and enjoy the things I enjoy.
