Shakira Quotes

I didn't expect babies to need so many diapers. Nobody told me they needed to be changed so often.

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• When you have kids, you instantly feel that you do not want to do them wrong. Those dads that go off to Florida and start a new life, I couldn't imagine that: seeing my kid once every Christmas, every three years. If I'm gone for six days it feels like too much.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Life
  • Kids
  • Start

• In winter, the Icelanders told the tales of the brave men of old in their families, and so the tradition was handed on from father to son, the same stories told every winter, till all the particulars became well known.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Men
  • Father
  • Son

• Near Marseilles in the south of France, bouillabaisse is a cult food. In Toulouse and Carcassonne, the bean-based stew cassoulet is a cult food. Spain has paella and a number of others. Italy has so many, its cuisine is practically defined by them.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Food
  • France
  • Italy

• America's present need is not heroics but healing; not nostrums but normalcy; not revolution but restoration.

  

  Warren G. Harding
  • America
  • Present
  • Politics

• The courage of very ordinary people is all that stands between us and the dark.

  

  Pam Brown
  • People
  • Dark
  • Courage

• I like the simplicity of a halter-top or plunging neckline, but I'll rough it up by wearing studded shoes and my leather jacket.

  

  Halston Sage
  • Up
  • Shoes
  • Simplicity

• Pride and excess bring disaster for man.

  

  Xun Kuang
  • Man
  • Pride
  • Disaster

• I joined the Madras Christian College but dropped out after three months. Telugu music director Ramesh Naidu asked me to assist him, and I did so for over a year. I did think of rejoining college, but by then, I was discovering the musician in me. I worked with Illaya Raja and Raj Koti and soon shifted to commercials. This led to movie offers.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Music
  • Movie
  • College

• The more you believe in yourself, the faster you're going to get.

  

  Adam Peaty
  • Believe
  • You
  • Believe In Yourself

• As a rule, one should never place form over content.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Never
  • Place
  • Content

• One has only as much morality as one has philosophy and poetry.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Poetry
  • Philosophy
  • Morality

• The next generation has always been and will be better than the previous one. If it is not, then the world would not be moving forward.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • World
  • Moving
  • Moving Forward

• My all-time favourite classic use of ricotta is in gnudi: fluffy, cheesy dumplings of almost ethereal, feathery lightness.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Time
  • Classic
  • Cheesy

• Every game, we're going to go for it, so when we get into playoff time, it's not like, 'You've really got to ratchet it up. You've really got to do something different.' Then what have I been doing the whole time?

  

  Dan Quinn
  • Up
  • Time
  • Different

• A celebrated and hugely popular actress in her native Iran, Ahangarani first landed on the radar of the Iranian authorities for her open support of opposition figure Mir-Hossein Mousavi, which led to her arrest in July 2009 in the aftermath of a disputed presidential election in Iran.

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
  • Support
  • Popular
  • First

• Now that I'm feeling the responsibilities of adulthood, the choices we make become an incredible weight.

  

  Laura Marling
  • Feeling
  • Choices
  • Now

• It is nice to know that even David Beckham doesn't have good taste in everything.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • Good
  • Know
  • Nice

• The cheeky ideal I am calling for is that Muslims should be viewed as equal citizens, nothing more and nothing less.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Citizens
  • Ideal
  • Muslims

• I spent a lot of my childhood in my own head, making up stories. I didn't have a lot of outside influences, so I was able to make my own decisions about what I wanted to do.

  

  Dido Armstrong
  • Up
  • Childhood

• We shall not yield to violence. We shall not be deprived of union freedoms. We shall never agree with sending people to prison for their convictions.

  

  Lech Walesa
  • People
  • Violence

• I have 9 children; I'm a big believer in childhood education, but we've got to be smart about getting a good return on the investment of those dollars.

  

  Matt Bevin
  • Good
  • Children
  • Education

• Reality is on a delay. For you, nothing is now. Realizing this fact is unsettling. If we can only react to the past, how do we manage to navigate the present? It's easy to spiral into a treatise on free will while in the fetal position, overthinking our forever past.

  

  Kyle Hill
  • Free
  • Reality
  • Past

• I didn't expect babies to need so many diapers. Nobody told me they needed to be changed so often.

  

  Shakira