Emilio Estefan Quotes

#1. I wanted very badly to be a mum. I'm a very maternal person. But at the point that I met Emilio I was focusing on a career. I never would have thought that I would get married at 21 and much less be a mum by 23.

Gloria Estefan

#2. I miss Betty madly. I loved her. Whenever people talk about her, I get really nostalgic. There are parts of her still with me; I played her for four years and, of course, the lines get blurred.

America Ferrera

#3. In spring 1989 ... I saw the buildup of demonstrations from Chengdu to Tiananmen Square. It struck me that fear had been forgotten to such an extent that few of the millions of demonstrators perceived danger. Most seemed to be taken by surprise when the army opened fire.

Jung Chang

#4. It is time to stop the mealy-mouthed euphemisms: 'Nationalists', 'Loyalists', 'Communities', 'Ethnic Groups', 'Cultures', 'Civilizations'. Religions is the word you need. Religions is the word you are struggling hypocritially to avoid.

Richard Dawkins

#5. Imperfection is not our personal problem - it is a natural part of existing.

Tara Brach

#6. As minorities, it is always our dream to merge our cultures and showcase to the world the talent that comes from both Latin music and Hip-Hop, .. I hope that together,we can create a new cultural movement that unites these audiences.

Emilio Estefan

#7. It's nice to get to know people who are the same age as you that do the same things because it's like a different level of understanding.

Becky G

#8. It's an honor for me to have the opportunity to work with Emilio Estefan.

Jencarlos Canela

#9. All the food we eat - every grain of rice and kernel of corn - has been genetically modified. None of it was here before mankind learned to cultivate crops. The question isn't whether our food has been modified, but how.

Michael Specter

#10. I don't believe in singing lessons. You can sing or you can't.

Harry Dean Stanton

#11. 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.

Gloria Estefan

#12. I don't know what she is now. A stranger, mostly. It's as if she has become a part of a different world, one that doesn't include me anymore ...

Lois Lowry

#13. Writers who learn to leave holes in manuscripts to be filled later master valuable skills in writing: they learn to proceed amid ambiguity and uncertainty

Wendy Laura Belcher

#14. Don't hesitate and second-guess yourself. Just be the best you can be in every step you take toward your goal.

Lorii Myers

#15. Dermot Reeve was so self-obsessed that even on the local nudist beach he only admired himself

Simon Hughes

#16. We understand that as public figures, we are a target for people who have nothing to lose in their quest for fame and easy money, ... preposterous, slanderous and defamatory lies.

Emilio Estefan

#17. The dog that will follow everbody ain't worth a curse.

Josh Billings

#18. 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.

Gloria Estefan

#19. At first, writing for The New Yorker was very scary to me. I couldn't imagine anything that I would write in that typeface.

David Sedaris