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.
Gloria EstefanRead
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.
Interpretation
Experiencing love and support from others instills a sense of obligation to reciprocate that kindness.
Gloria Estefan emphasizes the importance of mutual support in relationships, especially during tough times. Her personal experiences of receiving love and assistance motivate her belief that such acts of kindness create a responsibility to offer the same help to others in their moments of need.
In practice
This quote can be used in a speech about community service and helping neighbors.
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.
The part of my education that has had the deepest influence wasn't any particular essay or even a specific class, it was how I was able to apply everything I learned in the library to certain situations in my life. . . The library takes me away from my everyday life and allows me to see other places and learn to understand other people unlike myself.
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
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.
I don't want anything from Cuba. I want them to be free and enjoy the things I enjoy.
As an artist, you dream about accumulating enough successful music to someday do just one greatest-hits album, but to reach the point where you're releasing your second collection of hits is beyond belief.
Now she had a fumbling knowledge that, had she ever understood Ashley, she would never have loved him; had she ever understood Rhett, she would never have lost him.
She had a certain way of looking at life which he took as a personal offense.
It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
Now let me be clear; millions of women around the world nurse their children beautifully for years without giving anybody else a hard time about it. Teat Nazis are a solely western upper-middle-class phenomenon occurring when highly ambitious women experience deprivation from outside modes of achievement.
I have a theory about marriage, Monsieur Boustouler. And itβs that nearly always you will know within two weeks if itβs going to work. Itβs astonishing how many people remain shackled for years, decades even, in a protracted and mutual state of self-delusion and false hope when in fact they had their answer in those first two weeks.
Please think of me like an endangered species and just observe me quietly from far away. If you try to talk to me or touch me casually, I may get intimidated and bite you. So please be careful.
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