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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America has been a beacon of hope for vulnerable people throughout the world.
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For kindness begets kindness evermore, But he from whose mind fades the memory Of benefits, noble is he no more.
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I really can't pinpoint the one moment when I said I want to be a comic.
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I was born at a very crucial time. I consider 1968 to be the Mason Dixon line between pre- and post-civil rights generation ideas, whereas a lot of people born before '68 they kind of went into that Moses mentality. Like, I'm not going to make it, you know, I don't have any hope.
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I don't appreciate, really, talking to journalists when there's a sense of wanting to kick up dust to sell more papers or get more hits on their Internet site.
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I'm like a mosquito, I love humidity. I don't sweat.