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.
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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 wish my teammates, coaches and the entire Lions organization all the best.
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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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I cannot remember a time when the question of why people behave as they do was not intensely interesting to me. The desire to understand was very important. When I was young, I was aware of the fact that much of the time, the reasons a person gave for his actions were not the actual reasons.
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I never felt any different from anyone else though.
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You don't really know what to believe until the Government denies it.
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Basically we get confused a bit about what retail is. It is really just buying things, putting them on a floor and selling them.
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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.
