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We protect aspirin bottles in this country better than we protect guns from accidents by children.

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Gloria Estefan
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: September 1
Actor
Film Actor
Recording Artist
Singer-Songwriter
Television Actor
Havana
Cuba
Gloria María Milagrosa Fajardo García de Estefan
Gloria Maria Milagrosa Fajardo Garcia de Estefan
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My inspirations include the Beatles - love, love, love them - Elton John, Carole King, and Stevie Wonder.
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The music is one of the beautiful things that has survived the Castro regime. I have played for audiences all over the world but I've never played for a Cuban audience. For [husband] Emilio and me, the music is the one tie to our homeland.
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My mom was an amazing singer and music was a big part of my life, so I grew up listening to Nat King Cole, Johnny Mathis, Henry Mancini I used to watch 'The Andy Williams Show' on TV. I was very musical, so I was watching stuff that most kids my age wouldn't be interested in.
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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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To know that everything we say and do to this new little human being may have a profound effect on him or her is a daunting obligation.
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It is always so, I guess, validating when you meet somebody that you esteem -- and then they turn out to be everything [you thought] and more.
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I'm happy and I have a great life.
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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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The responsibility of carrying and bringing a new life into this world is one that cannot be taken lightly.
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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.
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Whatever it is your heart desires, please go for it, it's yours to have.
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You've got a new Spanish-language album out now [90 Millas, released in September of 2007], and the single [No Llores] is #1 on the Billboard Latin chart.
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We seal our fate with the choices we make.
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It's very tough for a woman in the music business, and he really was such a motivator from the beginning, when I was super-shy, and he saw a lot in me on a personal level that he knew could carry through on the stage.
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I tell him [husband Emilio] you are lucky I am not a jealous woman, because look at the women he's worked with: Shakira, Jennifer Lopez, Thalia, Madonna. These very sexy women. I trust him.
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Of course in Miami, not denouncing Fidel Castro at every turn is almost as bad as saying Gloria Estefan can't sing.
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You never know what life has in store for you, but I believe there are certain things one is meant to go through
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Everything that an artist does is a risk. Some people want you to stay the same. If you want to evolve, they want to keep you in a certain place.
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And, because of the life that I shared with these two amazing women [her mother and maternal grandmother] and the hardships and struggles that I saw them overcome, I learned an invaluable lesson, and that is that women can do anything we set our minds to... and then some!
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