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[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.

Love you all the time, 'cause when I close my eyes, I still can see your smile, it's bright enough to light my life

It's crucial with today's challenges that our children feel they have a source of information they can trust in their parents.

You know, it's funny how songs continue to grow and evolve and become a new and deeper reflection of your life.

Having felt people's love and support first hand through difficult moments in my life makes me feel it's our responsibility to help one another.

My mom was definitely very strict with me.

Performing is one of the best feelings I know!

I gotta tell you, my nature is not to be the center of attention.

She's an amazing dog and really inspired everything that's in this book.

One of the most beautiful things we can give our child is music education.

A woman's exterior beauty is a reflection of her internal peace and happiness.

There's no reason that just because you're a celebrity you can't write.

I've been offered a lot of things that celebrities do that I wouldn't do, like perfumes, lines of clothing and this, that and the other.

I doubt that Fidel will ever come back to power. I think he is slowly going to the great beyond. Too slowly ... he could have gone a long time ago.

My mother had a beautiful, soothing voice that made me melt.

When you are happy it is harder to write [songs].

My mom was a source of strength. She showed me by example that women, regardless of how difficult life may get, can do it all.

[Cuban coffee is] very powerful, very sweet, and a little dangerous - just like the people who drink it.

If the 70's freed our inhibitions, what good did it do?

We kiss and hug our kids a lot! And even now when our son lives 3,000 miles away, we talk every day, sometimes several times.

I don't want anything from Cuba. I want them to be free and enjoy the things I enjoy.

I spent 15 years on the road between touring and recording and I never saw anything. I want to enjoy life.

Once you know the Romance languages, singing in those languages is so sexy and sensual. I do have a global audience, so why not?

In the United States, if you believe in yourself and you're determined and persevere, you're going to succeed.

I bit down three nails rooting for the Heat.

I stare to memorize your face, to kiss you in my mind, love you all the time.

There are certain realities we must speak of with our children that were not present when I was a child.

I majored in Psychology in college. I was going to be a child psychologist.

I have great genes. Thank you to my mom and dad for that one.

Make sure everything you do you really like, because you have to sing it the rest of your life.

I have had a life in which I have had to face every big fear, and it has not been pleasant.

Then [after Castro dies and her triumphal return to Havana], at last, I could sing for my people.

Sometimes parents, when they have a lot of small children, it's hard because your time's got to get divvied up. There's no other way.

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.

When I write a song it's always from the point of view: makes the song the best it can be.

I'm careful what I put out there into the universe, musically. I don't take it lightly.

I've bought more music for my Ipod in one year than I bought in the last ten years of my life.

The secret of a long marriage is shaving your legs every day ... because it shows you still care.

My inspirations include the Beatles - love, love, love them - Elton John, Carole King, and Stevie Wonder.

Of course in Miami, not denouncing Fidel Castro at every turn is almost as bad as saying Gloria Estefan can't sing.

I make the best pancakes you'll ever have! And I claim that title gladly. On Saturdays I make them for everybody.

We seal our fate with the choices we make.

Later in life, the memories I have of my mother are of constant work balanced with caring for my ailing father.

I was a straight-A student, baby!

There's some people that are 24 hours with the baby and it doesn't make a difference. They could be anywhere.

Everything's funny for God's sake. Everything.

Sometimes my mother had difficulty communicating with me about certain topics.

The greatest feeling is to have somebody that's so happy to see you.

I only used my whole life one perfume: and it's Cartier's Le Must.

What's the point if you make something that's not you, and you're successful? You have to perform it the rest of your life.

Nothing ever stays in the middle. You always go from one extreme to the other, and politics is certainly that way.

Being Latin parents makes us extremely expressive with our affections.

Music is almost mystical to me. It really has an incredibly powerful force.

I have a twenty-month-old baby [girl], [and] a sixteen-year-old boy same maturity level.

I am trying to teach my children to feel a responsibility for their fellow human beings and a sense of connection with ... the world around them.

She [then nine-year-old daughter Emily] grew up with 'The Rhythm is Gonna Get You,' Well ... It got her!

There is nothing better than humor to keep a marriage going.

I've got nine dogs, eight birds, turtles, fish and I had wallabies at one point.

I love Gershwin. I love musicals.

I hold 'Mi Tierra,' my first Spanish-language album, very close to me because that was all done in my native tongue and won me my first Grammy.

You want your fans to like what you do, because it's coming from your heart and soul. You write it, you produce this thing. It's like your baby.

When I was a teenager, I was fat. I was shy. I wore glasses. I had a big eyebrow and hair all over my body. They were years of torture.

My daughter is almost a young lady. She's going to be 10 years old in December and I want to be there day-in and day-out.

If you're trying to do what's popular now, you're way behind already. By the time you record it and do it and try to copy it, it's moved on.

We must feel the pain before the pleasure, only then can we tell them apart.

I'm a writer and this is what I love to do.

My Conga people [fans] will find me anywhere I go.

The sad truth is that opportunity doesn't knock twice.

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

Wherever there's a human being there's going to be somebody that tries to hold you back.

I think that the only way to teach is by example, as children will more easily follow what they see you do than what you tell them to do.

You don't have to give up who you are to be successful just because you're different.

Music has been one of the most beautiful things in my life and will always be a very big part of who I am and what I do.

The responsibility of carrying and bringing a new life into this world is one that cannot be taken lightly.

I'm happy and I have a great life.

How can we expect something positive to come from all the negative that we put into this world?

I spent my childhood alone, overweight and ugly, angry at everything, and knowing nothing of a life beyond this sadness.

Whatever it is your heart desires, please go for it, it's yours to have.

Neither. I did not bring my crown, and the last thing I would want to do is get into politics.

I think it's important to have a happy parent.

As an entertainer, my job is to help people have fun.

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.

Sex and drugs were simply not discussed in our culture at that time.

I have a very open line of communication with both my children.

A lot of the way I sing is playing off other musicians. It's what I love to do the most.

Getting this caliber of musicians together [for "90 Millas" CD in September of 2007] is almost impossible to do again.

The most beautiful thing about music is that it transcends most anything.

Fashion is nice, but it's for the fans. If it were up to me, I'd be in a sweat suit!

A parent that's upset or resentful is not going to be a great paren.

You can put things off until tomorrow but tomorrow may never come.

Stevie Wonder always smells so good ... I'm like a DEA dog, I can smell people a block away!

Love is a constant source of inspiration, surprise, and wonderment.

We do have the power to save one another ...

You've got to believe. Never be afraid to dream.

The '70s were a hot time. You know? I was, like, the most calm of all my friends.

I voted, always vote. It's very important to me. My kids, I take them with me since they were little, so they realize it's a responsibility.

If there's ever been a dark moment in my life ... well, I wanted to check out. Music was a big escape.

Toys are not a need people typically think of, but they've got all these kids who have absolutely nothing to do.

You never know what life has in store for you, but I believe there are certain things one is meant to go through

I received an award for 25 million in [album] sales the night before the bus accident [in 1990].