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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The influence of blogging is overall a very positive force in the media.
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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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Every day I fantasise about situations and little themes I see in front of me that would make a good beginning of a story. But one has to be disciplined and just sit down and do it.
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Do what you do so well that they will want to see it again and bring their friends.
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It's going to be an interesting dilemma for certain corporations. They've worked so hard to make themselves important in the way music goes out into the world, but it's completely irrelevant when people can get their music in a different way.
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I saw the whole universe laid out before me, a vast shining machine of indescribable beauty and complexity. Its design was too intricate for me to understand, and I knew I could never begin to grasp more than the smallest idea of its purpose. But I sensed that every part of it, from quark to quasar, was unique and - in some mysterious way - significant.
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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.
