Cristina Saralegui Quotes
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You need to put easy, nice, tranquil thoughts in your head before you go to bed. You know what I do? I read metaphysical books. The good stuff stays in your brain once you go under.
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I'm a royal pain in the behind.
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If I have to be compared to somebody, it is to Martha Stewart.
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The talk show, as a genre, has been in decline for a while. It started with Jerry Springer, when the talk shows suffered a metamorphosis, going from the real and social issues to the hair-raising.
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I am not a person of faith. I'm a Catholic. I was brought up Catholic, but I'm not a church-going sort of girl. I'm very spiritual. I pray every night. I believe in Heaven and Hell, but I'm not a person that goes to church, like, every Sunday.
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People look at you and see that you've made it, but sometimes they forget that it took you years of being a human being.
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In my house, we speak Spanglish to the dogs, to the grandchildren, to the kids.
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If you stay on the air for 18 years, people know you.
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We Latin women are liberated from the neck up, not the neck down.
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I want to make sure I'm not a dilettante. Decorating has been a passion all my life. I love it.
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The difference between Oprah Winfrey and me is about $200 million.
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To realize the American dream, the most important thing to understand is that it belongs to everybody. It's a human dream. If you understand this and work very hard, it is possible.
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When you have a child who wants to take his own life and you feel powerless, nothing else in life matters.
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I am a Cuban mother, and you do not let your cubs get into trouble without you trying to help them all the way.
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America was the place that said, 'It doesn't matter where you come from, it doesn't matter what your last name is, it doesn't matter if you drink cortaditos, or lattes, or coffee with milk. Here, if you work hard, anything is possible.'
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The world is not ideal, and the only weapon we can give our children is information. Information which is not pretty, but honest.
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I'm one of the highest-paid television people in the world. I feel like I've made a difference in my viewers' lives, that I've been influential.
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The common denominator all Latinos have is that we want some respect. That's what we're all fighting for.
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Latin life is rich with warmth, family values and history. I want to bring that beauty into American homes.
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How proud I am to be compared to Oprah. I really admire her. She's a minority woman and she's done all this by herself... I'm very happy to be Oprah with salsa and not Donahue in drag.
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People would write me hate letters. How dare I try to represent Hispanics when I was so white? I tried to make them see it was racism.
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I always knew what I was worth, what I could do, what I could not do. I think that I have a genetic problem with lying. I just can't lie. I get in trouble with my husband because of that. He wishes that I wasn't so sincere, but I am.
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You have to eat right. That does not mean that I don't drink Cuban coffee. That does not mean that I do not have two cigarettes a day - that's what I'm down to. I drink wine - you know, I'm normal. But I do eat well.
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Like most Latinas, I'm not afraid to speak my mind.