Gloria Estefan Quotes
I don't want anything from Cuba. I want them to be free and enjoy the things I enjoy.
Quotes to Explore
-
I wasn't a visionary but I literally had my finger on the pulse of the women of America.
-
When you hit your 40s, you begin to take notice of the effects of aging because people that you know begin to die of heart attacks and tumors, so we take notice of the effects of aging.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
I search for surprise in my architecture. A work of art should cause the emotion of newness.
-
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.
-
Suggesting a married Jesus is one thing, but questioning the Resurrection undermines the very heart of Christian belief.
-
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.
-
I certainly went to high school with some mean girls, and I would not wish that hell on anybody.
-
As long as people have been making little people, they've wanted to know how not to.
-
For me, I never, never, from the moment I started acting, had a desire to be famous.
-
Yes, I'm proud to be indigenous. I'm half-Quechua-Huachipaeri from Peru.
-
The most precious things in speech are pauses.
-
Chuck Cooper is a friend, and I adore him. He can do so many things.
-
Someone like Amy Poehler, I don't know, but I feel like I know her. I think everyone feels like they know her.
-
Don't you dare print my first name. That would make me sound like a real country girl.
-
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.
-
All my writing-life people kept telling me that I should stop writing short stories and start writing novels: my agent, my Israeli publisher, my foreign ones, my bank manager - they all felt and keep feeling that I'm doing something wrong here.
-
I read somewhere once that in the 1960s, fiction writers were troubled by the notion that life was becoming stranger and more sensational than made-up stories could ever hope to be. Our new problem - more profound, I think - is that life no longer resembles a story. Events intersect but don't progress. People interact but don't make contact.
-
I look back at my old school journals, and they're full of self-hatred, full of me condemning myself for not being prettier, richer, more popular.
-
Like anyone else, I enjoy my days off.
-
I don't want anything from Cuba. I want them to be free and enjoy the things I enjoy.
