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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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.
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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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The history of the African American community is one of enduring, relentless struggle with a vision of accepting nothing less than full social and economic equality.
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First, I would find an object which I would think is suitable for my characters and stories, then write about it, and in the end, I ended up with a house full of thousands of objects.
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All bad qualities centre round the ego. When the ego is gone, Realisation results by itself. There are neither good nor bad qualities in the Self. The Self is free from all qualities. Qualities pertain to the mind only.
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Defense of free markets is where we need to be when establishing a vision for national technology policy.
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There have been people who have tried to take advantage of me. They want to be linked to me just because I'm Ethel Merman.
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I don't want anything from Cuba. I want them to be free and enjoy the things I enjoy.
