Juanes (Juan Esteban Aristizábal Vásquez) Quotes
I'm not more than a musician that enjoys what he does and a Colombian that dreams and fights for peace in his country.Juanes
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I don't think I knew that you could be a novelist. I think a lot of my students are in the same condition. I thought it was unreachable, that it was sort of dead people. It took me a long time - I think I was well into novel writing before I really thought, 'Actually, this is a valid pastime.'
Rachel Cusk -
I've leased the apartment; my partner is going to come out here. But we're keeping our house in Chicago because real estate is a really good investment and also because it is just crammed with full of stuff!
Ted Allen -
I couldn't speak well. I went to speech therapy for 10 years. And I was sort of frustrated in that sense.
Walter Dean Myers -
When the Islamic revolution began in 1979 under the leadership of Ayatollah Khomeini, it aroused considerable admiration in the Arab street. It presented a model of organised popular action that deposed one of the region's most tyrannical regimes. The people of the region discerned in this revolution new hope for freedom and change.
Wadah Khanfar -
If people want to think I'm an Indian prince, I don't want to dispel that notion.
Waris Ahluwalia -
If you want to talk about cultural appropriation, we have to go back to the Greeks.
Frances McDormand
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I kept thinking I would be spending my life up to my elbows in shampoo.
Vidal Sassoon -
You have, in America, you have gang signs. Well, 5,000 years ago, there was thing called a mudra, which is your sitting position when you do yoga or you're meditating or you're praying or whatever. And there's not a lot of them that are named after gods and goddesses, but the middle-finger is specifically named the Matangi mudra.
M.I.A. -
It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.
W. Somerset Maugham -
What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.
Victor Hugo -
There are many things I love in this world. Music, acting, and animals are at the top of that list.
Orlando Brown -
These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties.
Hannah Arendt
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When I was old enough to walk home alone from school, I loved seeing our house from a distance. It sat on the corner of South Muirfield Road and West 4th Street and had this proud, majestic look. But I rarely went through the front door. The back was more dramatic.
Natalie Cole -
Many women have more power than they recognize, and they're very hesitant to use it, for they fear they won't be loved.
Patricia Schroeder -
I don't cook fancy every day. I don't think anybody can, nor would it be very good for you.
Aarti Sequeira -
Oh, I'm pregnant on 'Girls.'
Gaby Hoffmann -
I like movies that are specific. Movies that home in on a very specific subculture, a specific discipline, a specific world.
Damien Chazelle -
I went to high school in Stockton, CA.
Cameron Dokey
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Because for whatever reason, even though I want to stay home all the time and be left alone, I want to tell the world who I am now.
Fiona Apple -
Khomeini was not a puppet like Arafat or Qaddafi or the many other dictators I met in the Islamic world. He was a sort of Pope, a sort of king - a real leader.
Oriana Fallaci -
The single hardest part of leading any organization is knowing what is going on. There's too much noise in the system, too much complexity: you absolutely depend on people speaking up and raising concerns.
Margaret Heffernan -
Loneliness is the ultimate poverty.
Pauline Phillips -
As I graduated from public schools and started working in newsrooms, I told myself that I am only the 'illegal' that my own country has not bothered to get to know.
Jose Antonio Vargas -
I'm not more than a musician that enjoys what he does and a Colombian that dreams and fights for peace in his country.
Juanes