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.
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I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.
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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.'
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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!
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I couldn't speak well. I went to speech therapy for 10 years. And I was sort of frustrated in that sense.
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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.
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If people want to think I'm an Indian prince, I don't want to dispel that notion.
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If you want to talk about cultural appropriation, we have to go back to the Greeks.
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I kept thinking I would be spending my life up to my elbows in shampoo.
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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.
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It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.
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What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.
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There are many things I love in this world. Music, acting, and animals are at the top of that list.
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These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties.
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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.
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If I had permitted my failures, or what seemed to me at the time a lack of success, to discourage me I cannot see any way in which I would ever have made progress.
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Many women have more power than they recognize, and they're very hesitant to use it, for they fear they won't be loved.
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I don't cook fancy every day. I don't think anybody can, nor would it be very good for you.
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Oh, I'm pregnant on 'Girls.'
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I always thought the desert was the antithesis of peace - something that attacks you. So you don't go to the desert for peace.
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World Peace Day is envisioned to become a moment of global unity - it is up to each and every one of us to make this a reality.
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I actually looked up in my journal trying to figure out some dates and, in January 1991, America is about to go back into its first sort of actual war since Vietnam, with the Gulf War. It just seemed unbelievable at the time that this country would do that - which is funny to think about now.
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I'm not more than a musician that enjoys what he does and a Colombian that dreams and fights for peace in his country.
