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It's a universal story, it's an immigrant story, and it's a love story. In the United States, if you believe in yourself and you're determined and persevere, you're going to succeed.

Gloria Estefan

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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
Love
Universal
Succeed
Story
United
Stories
Immigrant
States
Persevere
Going
Immigrants
Believe
Determined

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Well first of all, I'm a singer. I sing since I talk. So the great ballad singers, the people that sang with so much feeling, jazz, blues, all those singers, they were songs that I listened to, records that my mom played for me, and then later I bought.
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I spent 15 years on the road between touring and recording and I never saw anything. I want to enjoy life.
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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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One of the most beautiful things we can give our child is music education.
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The sad truth is that opportunity doesn't knock twice. You can put things off until tomorrow but tomorrow may never come. Where will you be a few years down the line. Will it be everything you dreamed of. We seal our fate with the choices we take, but don't give a second thought to the chances we take.
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I'm very comfortable in my own skin now. I started just being myself more and more. For women, this happens as you get older. I loved my 40s - I thought they were fantastic. And I'm loving my 50s. I'm going to love everything because you're either older or dead!
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Music is almost mystical to me. It really has an incredibly powerful force.
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I love Gershwin. I love musicals.
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We protect aspirin bottles in this country better than we protect guns from accidents by children.
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We seal our fate with the choices we take, but don't give a second thought to the chances we take.
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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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I have a twenty-month-old baby, a sixteen-year-old boy - same maturity level.
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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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She's an amazing dog and really inspired everything that's in this book.
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[Cuban coffee is] very powerful, very sweet, and a little dangerous - just like the people who drink it.
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The challenge is always as a writer, is this going to work, because it's a very intimate process, and I tend to be very introverted and insular, and when I write, it's in my head.
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My inspirations include the Beatles - love, love, love them - Elton John, Carole King, and Stevie Wonder.
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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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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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My friends call me 'Dolittle One' [a reference to her physical stature and affinity for animals].
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