Gloria Estefan Quotes
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Sometimes parents, when they have a lot of small children, it's hard because your time's got to get divvied up. There's no other way.
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The sad truth is that opportunity doesn't knock twice.
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Being Latin parents makes us extremely expressive with our affections.
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The last thing I wanted to do was put politics into my music... because music was my escape.
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How can we expect something positive to come from all the negative that we put into this world?
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Everything's funny for God's sake. Everything.
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I thought it would be lovely to use [pet bulldog] Noelle as an example to teach the importance of being who you are. For me it's important to inspire children in a positive way, and at times they understand more messages through entertainment than when one is talking to them directly.
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I left Cuba when I was two years old. They took away my country, they stole the most intimate thing a human being can have. How could I forget that Fidel Castro was the person who did me so much harm?
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I was going to be a doctor, but I think my music allowed me to help more people than I could have done one-on-one as a psychologist. Just like other people's music really helped me.
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Esperando (Cuando Cuba Sea Libre) is probably one of the most personal songs from the new [September, 2007] CD, "90 Millas" . . . as it really speaks about the celebration, nostalgia and emotion that will happen the day Cuba is free. If we're to move forward in Cuba, we really have to have a lot of forgiveness for each other and look towards the future.
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I'm careful what I put out there into the universe, musically. I don't take it lightly.
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More than anything I want to be able to go back to Cuba, to have a house to visit there, to know my roots. Then, at last, I could sing for my people.
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I wanted to talk to very young kids about self-image and about being different and how that can be your strength, especially from the immigrant perspective.
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Stevie Wonder always smells so good... I'm like a DEA dog, I can smell people a block away!
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My guitar and singing was my way of crying.
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My son traveled the world with me on every tour. He wasn't a lover of school, so it was easy with him. I had a tutor on the road, keep him at the same level, so when he'd pop back home he'd go right back in.
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It's not so much for me where you come from, who you are, what race you are. We're just human beings that are still a work in progress and there's a lot that we've got to overcome, so that we can all be equal.
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I have had a life in which I have had to face every big fear, and it has not been pleasant.
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I think it's important to have a happy parent.
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My mother had a beautiful, soothing voice that made me melt.
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The library takes me away from my everyday life and allows me to see other places and learn to understand other people unlike myself.
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Make sure everything you do you really like, because you have to sing it the rest of your life.
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The reason I’m not more political is because I have music. And from a young age, I needed it. After prison, my father came to America, joined the Army, fought in Vietnam - and was exposed to Agent Orange. He died a slow, horrible death. Music was my escape.
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The script [for the movie based on the life of singer Connie Francis -- "Who's Sorry Now?"] is finished and is in the hands of several artists to see if somebody wants to film at the start of [2006].