Shakira Quotes
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A lot of EDM is not bad at all when it's simple, but a lot of it is not really musical. That's just what I really like to do: taking what I had at the beginning, which is classical and jazz influences, and putting it into electro.
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One trap you can fall into when playing someone iconic is to end up doing everything in an iconic way, no matter how pedestrian or mundane that thing is.
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At one time if you were a black writer you had to be one of the best writers in the world to be published. You had to be great. Now you can be good. Mediocre. And that's good.
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It takes a long, hard effort and sustained determination to reduce crime. We will stay the course and we are confident that the numbers will continue to go down.
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Nobody wants to be on food stamps, but when my family lost everything, we were grateful for it. I was grateful the program was there so I could concentrate on my schoolwork and not on my empty belly. We were grateful that we had the support we needed to roll up our sleeves and rebuild our lives.
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I have always found myself playing the hero, but I love villains. Villains have more fun.
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Women eat while they are talking; men talk while they are eating.
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We think that forgiveness is weakness, but it's absolutely not; it takes a very strong person to forgive.
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In a way, I have simplified my life by setting priorities.
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Every writer dreams of having the ability to hold forth for 8,000 words and pull all these different forms together: history, reportage, journalism. That was all I really wanted, and 'The Atlantic' was my first high-profile opportunity.
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I would have changed my last name if being famous were my goal.
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Man wants but little here below, nor wants that little long.
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The people who make art their business are mostly imposters.
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What is new is that environmentalism intensely illuminates the need to confront the corporate domain at its most powerful and guarded point - the exclusive right to govern the systems of production.
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We have a spending problem, not a taxing problem. The less we spend, the more jobs we have the potential to create.
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For seventeen years, he did nothing at all but kill animals and stick in stamps.
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Whatever else I am now, I'm never bored.
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The lunar cycle within the solar season: that kind of syncopated rhythm is what life relates to.
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You don't take a job in acting at all expecting 25 years in and a pension.
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I believe that fantasy in the meaning of imagination is very important. We shouldn't stick too close to everyday reality but give room to the reality of the heart, of the mind, and of the imagination.
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It's not the honors and the prizes and the fancy outsides of life which ultimately nourish our souls. It's the knowing that we can be trusted, that we never have to fear the truth, that the bedrock of our very being is good stuff.
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A Settlement is above all a place for enthusiasms, a spot to which those who have a passion for the equalization of human joys and opportunities are early attracted.
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I'm like a mosquito, I love humidity. I don't sweat.
