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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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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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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I was made fun of a lot in middle school. When I was in seventh grade, the popular kids paid the most popular guy to ask me out.
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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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Human beings are religious animals.
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The leader is one who, out of the clutter, brings simplicity... out of discord, harmony... and out of difficulty, opportunity.
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I feel that there is not an endlessly expandable universe of fiction readers.
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If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it's to deliver people from the limited ways in which they see and feel.
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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.
