Quotes

  - "About a week after it happend, I said to myself: 'Enough of this, you can't just let life land on you. Bad things happen of course, but you have to take control of your life'".

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- "Learning to walk again was the most difficult. But I learned not to take things for granted and to enjoy every second now. I'd always had my priorities straight, but when you almost lose everything it really sets you straight."

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- "Life is just a dangerous place. I think that perhaps that bus accident was my destiny. But what came from that accident was totally in my control, how I dealt with that accident, how my life was shaped from it."

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- "How do you pick up Gloria Estefan? With a magnet."

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- "Miami es mi pueblo. Estados Unidos es mi país, ¡pero Cuba es mi tierra!"

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- "Freedom is not just words on paper. You have to exercise it in order for it to be alive and vibrant. I want my children to realize that if you just sit by and let things slide, then nothing will ever change in this world."

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- "Mi mama siempre me enseno que si algo no me gustada no hablara de ello. Si sufro por lo que esta pasando mi pueblo y lo unico que deseo es la libertad de Cuba."

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- "Cuban, singer, wife, mother, animals-lover, patient, honest, little."

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- "If I had one thing that I wanted people to say about me, what would it be? Hmmmmm... Probably 'Ooh she's so tall! Oh my gosh she's so tall!'"

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- "He has everything I've ever wanted. Emilio is a neat freak, okay? He hoses everything down. I've pondered getting him a fire truck. When we were just married, he would vacuum walking backward toward the bed to erase his footprints."

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- "I love the end of the day, when I feel accomplished and somewhat relieved, and Emilio loves the beginning because he thinks of how much he can't wait to accomplish."

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- "I don't spank my kids, I punish. For example, Nayib hates writing lines over and over. One punishment he didn't like was repeatedly writing, `I will not moon the tour boats that pass by.' After that he never did it again."

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- "We have always tried to make him feel in the family, and not on the side because I have a career. He has always been very much involved, I've never lied to him about anything. He is very secure and is a very happy child."

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- "Each morning Emily and I laugh and play and sing. Emily loves music. Her personality is just like mine. My mother said she had to sing to me to take my diaper off.   Emily is the same."

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- "I get separation anxiety if I go  more than a day without seeing Emily."

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- "My family is still first and foremost. I'm lucky they don't pressure me in the oposite direction. Because if I had a husband that didn't want me on the road or a son that was really the type of child that needs to be near his mum, because he is very independant; I think it would be more difficult and I would have to make some serious decisions. So I would probably not be touring; I probably just would be a recording artist; but they are very supportive and I'm lucky in that way."

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- "If you really have something that you believe in and that you care about, you should pursue it with hard work, with perserverance, with patience, with diligance, with ballance, and definately with alot of love. Because anything you do with a lot of love, you can't go wrong."

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- "Shit happens, I know, but man, at times I've wished shit would go somewhere else for a while."

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- "I want to leave a legacy of love with my family, my friends, and with my music fans. I want people to know that I really cared about them and that I really was nurtured by their love."

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- "To me, humor is one of the most important things in my life; it has helped me through some very rough points. My humor can sometimes be irreverent, but every moment it has been there with me, even through the darkest moments. I think it helps us to not take ourselves too seriously. There is just too much to celebrate and too much to be grateful for."

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About us fans: - "You're where you are because of them. Maybe there's somebody standing there who made a very big effort to come to your show. Maybe this is their only opportunity to be this close to you." **Back to MAIN**