Shakira Quotes
I can take the spotlight that shines on me and shift it towards those issues that are infinitely more important than my own issues.
Quotes to Explore
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When I was a kid, I had an Atari 2600, and I would play Pac Man, Frogger, all that kind of stuff. And I did enjoy going to the arcade.
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The years go so fast. I mean, I just realized that at the end of the year I will be twenty-two, and I just turned twenty-one.
Nastassja Kinski -
And it's one thing to give people freedom and something else to deny the rights of Christians to assert their faith in order to keep Hindus from feeling upset.
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I would describe my sound as classic Motown.
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I condemn everyone and anyone who commits acts of terrorism. And Hamas has committed acts of terrorism.
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First time I sang, I was singing Alicia Keys in the bathroom of my mom's beauty shop. I was six.
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The moment in which you make somebody laugh, you're only doing it to make them laugh and be happy. Then afterward you can be like, 'Oh, I just want the attention. I feel so good that everybody's listening to me and I got the approval that I need.'
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I've done some music for films and I really enjoy doing it.
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I'm not a babysitter.
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I'm lucky in some ways in that I really don't need more than five or so hours of sleep.
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To me the definition of true masculinity – and femininity, too – is being able to lay in your own skin comfortably.
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I don't want to be on the Internet.
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I think we respond well when we do something well.
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You do your work as fully as you can, and the ones who hear the sound join in.
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In England I am not English, in India I am not Indian. I am chained to the 1,000 square miles that is Trinidad; but I will evade that fate yet.
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I know I can act. There aren't too many other jobs I know how to do.
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A Microsoft-Yahoo merger is a deal only an investment banker could love.
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When I travel with my kids abroad, I am not myself, but I'm more a father who wants to protect them. Sometimes, I am even aggressive about certain things and get surprised seeing myself like that: for instance, when people want to take pictures of them. I am fine if they want to take my pictures, but they are not public property.
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It's always been a subtext of our secular optimism that you solve the economic problem, and all other things sort of take care of themselves. Well, we seem to be doing well on the economic side - we are doing very well - and the other things are not solving - they're compounding.
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I'm not somebody who plans. There were times I planned a lot in my life, and it never turns out how you plan it. So I think it's important not to. I'm a very spontaneous person.
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Musicians used to be way more instrumental just in providing a soundtrack to what's going on in the world. And it's also important to state what we think. There's like this fear for their career, if they have anything intelligent to say about politics. And that's really messed up.
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It's so important for kids to get involved with sports in general at a young age.
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When you're 13, you're still trying to figure out your style.
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I can take the spotlight that shines on me and shift it towards those issues that are infinitely more important than my own issues.
