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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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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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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The softer you sing, the louder you're heard.
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Life is unfair. I got nothing but the best.
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'Dogfight' was everything wonderful and terrifying about a show, and I feel it 1,000% gave me the knowledge and the confidence that I could do this. I can step up and be present enough to command scenes with amazing actors.
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I wanted to be respected by filmmakers, and why should they respect me if they saw that my superiors did not treat me with respect.
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My contribution to Rent the Runway as the CEO is higher than the contribution of someone on my warehouse team, but my pregnancy is not any more important than the pregnancy of any single person who works at my company.
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Like my makeup, I keep my hair simple. It's either down or in a ponytail.
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It is probably like an artist. They see in their head what they want to draw, and they draw it. It is like I have a feeling inside me that I want to create on a horse, and that is what I do.
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If you must commit suicide – and there is no knowing to what people may be brought – always contrive to do it as decorously as possible; the decencies, whether of life or of death, should never be lost sight of.
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There's another reason why you should love your enemies, and that is because hate distorts the personality of the hater. We usually think of what hate does for the individual hated or the individuals hated or the groups hated. But it is even more tragic, it is even more ruinous and injurious to the individual who hates. [...] For the person who hates, the true becomes false and the false becomes true. That's what hate does.
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I'm like a mosquito, I love humidity. I don't sweat.
