Shakira Quotes
I feel a real sense of duty to use the voice and the platform I've been afforded by my fame to speak out for those whose voices don't get a chance to be heard.Shakira
Quotes to Explore
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It's difficult to talk about, you know, my inadequacies, my inability to stay sober when I'm a relatively bright man and I've had a lot of great blessings and a lot of great opportunities.
Daniel Baldwin -
If I want popularity, I go to a chef's convention.
Nathan Myhrvold -
Women often have a great need to portray themselves as sympathetic and pleasing, but we're also dark people with dark thoughts.
Zadie Smith -
It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
Jackie Mason -
I think you can say anybody uses anything as a gimmick. Is Adele's not having gimmicks her gimmick? It's hard to say, isn't it? Really, I think that everybody has something that people like or that's great about them.
Iggy Azalea -
My professional and human obsession is the nature of language, and my best relationships are with other writers. In many ways, I know George Eliot better than I know my husband.
A. S. Byatt
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Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
I can't go into a mob scene and sense the mood and the attitude of the crowd. I can't conduct man-on-the-street interviews or even get reactions that I can be sure are honest, because they know who I am.
Walter Cronkite -
We didn't realize there were that many boy bands until we started touring in Europe. I don't think we were ever affected by it since a lot of the groups in Europe didn't really sing live, but we did and would perform a cappella as well.
AJ McLean -
I like to play a strong woman, but a strong woman can also be very fragile and vulnerable at the same time.
Carice van Houten -
I've had loss in my life, and I like to think my mother's energy lives on in some faintly Buddhist way. I do find some comfort there.
Damian Lewis -
Filmmaking is a business and at the bottom line people who don't make fiscally responsible decisions end up going into another line of work.
Gale Anne Hurd
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I should have a better CV, and that's knocked me into believing that I have to grab these opportunities while I can.
Katarina Johnson-Thompson -
I'm not averse to telling people off.
Damian Lewis -
Some men are alive simply because it is against the law to kill them.
E. W. Howe -
Some writers think that fiction is the space of great neutrality where all humans share the same concerns, and we are all alike. I don't think so. I'm interested in class warfare because I think it's real.
Rachel Kushner -
'Harry Potter' created a generation of readers in an era when kids could have disappeared into the depths of the Internet. That's no small feat. Every book series owes J.K. Rowling a debt of gratitude.
Gary Ross -
You perhaps know me as a novelist. Literature is one of the arts – in fact, the noblest of the arts. That is not my opinion; it was first expressed by the ancients. As art, literature has many similarities with the other art forms.
F. Sionil Jose
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We're Midwestern guys who grew up listening to soul music.
Isaac Hanson Hanson -
I've always been interested in how fast-moving our identity is and that I've never been able to pin down who I truly am. That inspires me to write, because I feel like that cements me a bit, in that I find my identity in being an artist.
Marina and the Diamonds -
It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Onassis was a man who loved to walk, to walk and talk, and he was the kind of man who doesn't go to sleep at night-he talks and talks.
Pierre Salinger -
As an actor, you need to be versatile. You need to challenge yourself.
Colin Morgan -
I feel a real sense of duty to use the voice and the platform I've been afforded by my fame to speak out for those whose voices don't get a chance to be heard.
Shakira