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Gloria Estefan
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“Now my life is pretty much bliss. I have two healthy children and a great marriage (Emilio and I have been together for 28 years). I still have one ambition: to do a concert in Cuba. It's the beginning of the end for Castro and, well, I've performed for every audience of practically every nationality except my own. Performing there would be one of the highlights of my life.”
Gloria Estefan (born 1957) first seen 2006 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: (Telegraph Magazine November 14, 2006)
“Music should always be a means of bridging gaps and uniting people. The beauty of music is that it can -- and should -- gather a wide variety of concepts in a way that's universal.”
Gloria Estefan (born 1957) first seen 2007 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: (www.internationalspeakers.com February 1, 2007)
“My favorite process is writing, from day one. The songs I have written throughout the years were a real great opportunity for me to communicate, because I think that's my prime objective on this planet.”
Gloria Estefan (born 1957) first seen 2006 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Associated Press interview (November 3, 2006)
“My dream is to perform in a big, celebratory concert in a free Cuba, but I don't think they'd even let me into the country. And if they did, I'd have to speak against what is going on, which the government fears. I don't know how much change toward democracy we'll see as long as one of the Castro brothers is around, but I do believe there is a future with a new leader someday. But this leader will also love Cuba and really want to take her forward. When that day comes, Emilio and I will be there in any way that we can be of service.”
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Recorded in: Latina Magazine (September, 2007)
“He makes me laugh like crazy. We're still kids inside. We're mature and responsible when it comes to business, but we know how to have fun.”
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“I make the best pancakes you'll ever have! And I claim that title gladly. On Saturdays I make them for everybody.”
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Recorded in: Latina Magazine (September, 2007)
“I like them in their natural state. They're like nuclear lemonades!”
Gloria Estefan (born 1957) first seen 2007 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: answer to question "mojitos -- plain or flavored?" Latina Magazine (September, 2007)
“Because they were idiots!”
Gloria Estefan (born 1957) first seen 2006 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Analysis of why the big multi-national recording companies did not embrace downloading of songs legally on the Internet for many years. thestrippodcast.com (September 9, 2006)
“What happened is the music listener has become much more of a connoisseur and a king of his own destiny. You can no longer shove an album down their throats and say, 'Here's 15 songs, four of them are good, you know. Spend 20 dollars on this CD.' It's not going to happen. That's what has taken the music industry down.”
Gloria Estefan (born 1957) first seen 2006 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: thestrippodcast.com (September 9, 2006)
“I've got a producer [for bio pic on singer Connie Francis' life] . . . . We're almost there.”
Gloria Estefan (born 1957) first seen 2006 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Good Morning America radio interview (October 26, 2006)
“[My husband Emilio] found the last remaining virgin in the '70s -- and that was me.”
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Recorded in: Good Morning America radio interview (October 26, 2006)
“The secret of a long marriage is shaving your legs every day . . . because it shows you still care.”
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Recorded in: Style Network (December 15, 2006)
“I do [like being a redhead] . . . I do . . . because lighter is better as you get older . . . It's nice . . . I can't be a blonde. I'm definitely not a blonde . . . So, that doesn't leave too many other colors available.”
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Recorded in: Style Network (December 15, 2006)
“We're lucky to call Miami and the United States home. What other city can claim to have its own foreign policy? Miami is many things, but it is never boring.”
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Recorded in: comment to audience while headlining concert to open Carnival Center for the Performing Arts www.miamiherald.com (October 6, 2006)
“How can we expect something positive to come from all the negative that we put into this world?”
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Recorded in: speech at Florida International University, "Live, Art and Spirituality" (October 14, 2006)
“When [my mother] saw we were not going to be able to go back [to Cuba] it became increasingly important for her to make our culture very prevalent and very important in our lives -- and in our household. We spoke only Spanish. I didn't learn English until I went to school in first grade. And the [Cuban] music and the food was very much a part of our life. I'm glad for that, because it is as well for my children.”
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Recorded in: BBC radio interview (December 13, 2006)
“Noelle's Treasure Tale" is based on the historical fact that three Spanish galleons full of treasure sunk off Florida's treasure coast and have never been recovered. I have a beach house on the Treasure Coast, and I'm out there with my snorkel looking for the treasure.”
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Recorded in: comment to audience at book signing at Macy's in New York City (November 21, 2006)
“[To beginning readers (ages 4 to 8) at a reading of "Noelle's Treasure Tale"]: If you discover a word in my book that you don't understand, ask your parents so they can look it up in the dictionary for you.”
Gloria Estefan (born 1957) first seen 2006 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: comment to audience at book signing at Macy's in New York City (November 21, 2006
“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.”
Gloria Estefan (born 1957) first seen 2006 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: comment to The Associated Press regarding publication of her second children's book "Noelle's Treasure Tale" (October 9, 2006)
“[As of November 17, 2006] 'Noelle's Treasure Tale' has remained at No. 3 on the New York Times children's best seller list since its October 10 release.”
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Recorded in: Reuters (November 17, 2006)
“I had always thought about a lullaby album. But when Noelle came along, my little Colombian bulldog, she really gave me a plethora of ideas. I remembered when I was little in Texas and I was the only Hispanic in my class. Because the first book was about feelings, how Noelle's weaknesses turned into her strengths. That you have to keep your identity.”
Gloria Estefan (born 1957) first seen 2006 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Reuters (November 17, 2006)
“What do you expect for your $12,000?”
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Recorded in: question at Zo's Summer Groove benefit concert (Miami, July 15, 2006) to winning bidder for Estefan to personally read her first children's book "The Magically Mysterious Adventures of Noelle the Bulldog" at their home
“Everything's funny for God's sake. Everything.”
Gloria Estefan (born 1957) first seen 1996 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: www.s-t.com (July 5, 1996)
“A lot of the people who live here [Miami] are island people -- from Cuba, Haiti. People are very vibrant, and color is important living here. You're inspired every day by the sun, the sky, the landscape, the lushness. [Artist Romero Britto's] painting and artwork reflect that.”
Gloria Estefan (born 1957) first seen 2007 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: www.nytimes.com (February 2, 2007)
“[I] grew up in this city [Miami], and my music is a blend of two cultures. In the beginning it was heavily Cuban. At this point it's [from] all over . . .”
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Recorded in: The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson (February 4, 2007)
“Neither. I did not bring my crown, and the last thing I would want to do is get into politics.”
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“[Cuban coffee is] very powerful, very sweet, and a little dangerous —- just like the people who drink it.”
Gloria Estefan (born 1957) first seen 1993 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Entertainment Weekly (30 July 1993)
“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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Recorded in: Exito (online newspaper)" (October 1997)
“For fourteen years [1966 to 1980] [my father] suffered a debilitating disease [multiple sclerosis]. I took care of him for most of that time, until he was no longer able to be taken care of at home . . . So, in essence, I was caring for [my father] and my younger sister [Becky], six years younger than I. It was difficult for me. It was a tough time. Music was my escape -- my catharsis. My way of just getting my emotions out. Music has always been a beautiful force in my life.”
Gloria Estefan (born 1957) first seen 2006 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: BBC radio interview (December 13, 2006)
“I'm looking forward, though, one day, if I'm not too old, to do a free concert in a free Cuba. That to me would be fantastic. We're looking forward to it. Well, hopefully, I mean he's [Castro] gotta go [die] sometime. He's gotta go sometime -- let's hope it's sooner [rather] than later.”
Gloria Estefan (born 1957) first seen 2005 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: televised interview" (22 April 2005)
“When I first came to Miami [in 1959], you'd see signs like "No Children, No Pets, No Cubans." We were a major threat. We lived in a very small apartment behind the Orange Bowl, where all the Cubans lived. All the men (including my father, Jose Manuel Fajardo) were political prisoners in Cuba, and it was purely women and their kids. There was one car the whole community bought for $50, and the one lady that could drive would take everybody to the supermarket and the Laundromat.”
Gloria Estefan (born 1957) first seen 1993 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Entertainment Weekly (30 July 1993)
“I was 16 months old when I left Cuba, so I really don't remember anything [about Cuba].”
Gloria Estefan (born 1957) first seen 1997 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Roots of Rhythm" (1997 documentary film)
“I'd lock myself up in my room with my guitar. I wouldn't cry. I was afraid if I let go just a little bit, it would all go. I would sing for hours by myself . . . . It was my way of crying.”
Gloria Estefan (born 1957) first seen 1993 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Entertainment Weekly (30 July 1993)
“You know, I don't know about this "Diva thing," O.K. This "Diva thing" is getting a little out of hand, I think. I mean if anything, I'm a divette.”
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“I have a twenty-month-old baby [girl], [and] a sixteen-year-old boy— same maturity level.”
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“No fighting, Glorias! Gloria Estefan [the real one] to two female impersonators [Gloria #1 and Gloria #2]”
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“I bit down three nails rooting for the Heat.”
Gloria Estefan (born 1957) first seen 2006 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: comment at Zo's Summer Groove benefit concert in aftermath of Miami Heat winning basketball championship (Miami, July 16, 2006)
“Those of you who speak only English, applaud [audience applause]. Those of you who speak only Spanish, applaud [audience applause]. [In mock incredulity] Then how do you know what I just said?”
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“Excuse me, you have binoculars in the second row . . . and there're zoom . . . What exactly were you looking at there? . . . Very cute . . . Well, get your money's worth, honey.”
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“She [then nine-year-old daughter Emily] grew up with 'The Rhythm is Gonna Get You,' Well . . . It got her!”
Gloria Estefan (born 1957) first seen 2004 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: comment September 8, 2004, to concert audience in Washington, D.C. after Emily's drum solo
“Careful! We don't want anybody getting squished.”
Gloria Estefan (born 1957) first seen 2006 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: admonition to dozens of children aboard the USS Theodore Roosevelt before reading from her first children's book, "The Magically Mysterious Adventures of Noelle the Bulldog" www.dailypress.com (September 15, 2006)
“Not even a bomb scare could keep Gloria Estefan from her fans.”
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“Now in addition to being applauded as a five-time Grammy-Award-winning artist, Gloria now has the distinction of being titled a two-time New York Times best-selling author!”
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Recorded in: comment by Frank Amadeo, president of EEI, after Estefan's second children's book, "Noelle's Treasure Tale," debuted in third position on The New York Times children's picture book best seller list for the week of Octob…
“[My forthcoming book features] Noelle's experience as a loveable, yet very unconventional looking dog, who must find her way through life in her new adopted home, feeling different and confronting a bevy of clustered animal cliques whose ultimate reluctance to include Noelle in their world is soon offset by Noelle's true, albeit hidden, beauty. [I hope it has] special resonance with the immigrant communities in the United States (primarily of Hispanic heritage) who may, like Noelle, feel they culturally do not, and will not, fit in with a culture so foreign from their own.”
Gloria Estefan (born 1957) first seen 2004 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: written statement on December 6, 2004
“Noelle's Treasure Tale" [Estefan's second children's book] comes out October 10 [2006]”
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Recorded in: comment to audience at Zo's Summer Groove benefit concert (Miami, July 15, 2006)
“{Fame has] given me a lot of free love -- and that's the best thing fame can afford you. What has it taken away? My privacy.”
Gloria Estefan (born 1957) first seen 2003 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Billboard Magazine" (11 October 2003)
“I majored in Psychology in college. I was going to be a child psychologist.”
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Recorded in: thestrippodcast.com (September 9, 2006)
“[After college] I was going to study at the Sorbon and become a diplomat. Being a diplomat comes in handy when you are dealing with record companies.”
Gloria Estefan (born 1957) first seen 2006 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: interview on Whoopi Goldberg radio program (October 13, 2006)
“I only used my whole life one perfume: and it's Cartier's Le Must.”
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Recorded in: interview on Rachael Ray show (December 6, 2006)
“When you are happy it is harder to write [songs].”
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Recorded in: Gayle King XM satellite radio program (October 23, 2006)