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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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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In reality, serial killers are of average intelligence.
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I am a leader in my own world. That's enough for me.
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I've been focused on detecting nuclear terrorism at ports, in cargo containers, and I developed and built detectors that are extremely cheap and also very sensitive. My other big development is a system to produce medical isotopes that are injected into patients and used to diagnose and treat cancer.
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Sportspersons have to reinvent themselves every day. It helps them improve.
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I honestly think I was an Indian living in the time of the Trail of Tears. Something like that. Every time I read books about back then, I get so devastatingly sad, so, so... I feel such a deep connection to it.
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We don't know the effects we have on each other, but we have them.
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Even in the United States and in other free nations, some journalists, academics, public officials, and saddest of all young people have developed and promulgated idealized, warped views of tyrannical regimes.
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As soon as I go into a Starbucks I take off my sunglasses. I want to be recognised and I want free coffee.
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I don't want anything from Cuba. I want them to be free and enjoy the things I enjoy.
