Shakira Quotes
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I'm not an anti-capitalist, or anarchist. I want capitalism to work.
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My neighbors think I do nothing because I don't go to a job, which is fine and good.
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From inside where I live, I feel like I just perceive events in a certain rational way. I often find it sad or poignant, and it may not make me laugh a bit. But I don't mind inventing a portrait that allows others to laugh if that's what they want to do.
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Literature is one of the most interesting and significant expressions of humanity.
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I was in graduate school. I had a birth control accident and went to get the morning after pill.
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You just have to re-wire your brain when you're shifting from the stage to the screen or the silver screen or the HD flat screen.
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We must all learn to adjust with our surroundings.
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I think a lot of people are with the one they're meant to be with. I see it watching my parents because they've been together for so long and are still very much in love. I'm just sort of in awe of that.
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It is the original idea that is unique, not the object itself.
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I enjoy my life, I love track, I'm set for life financially.
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Whenever I walk out on a stage, I'm begging for affection.
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I constantly remind people that crime isn't solved by technology; it's solved by people.
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I learned that we can do anything, but we can't do everything... at least not at the same time. So think of your priorities not in terms of what activities you do, but when you do them. Timing is everything.
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Jagdish Singh was my basic coach, and he trained me from my very early days in boxing, teaching me the fundamentals of the sport. He was the one who shaped me into a boxer, disciplined me when I required disciplining.
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God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.
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It is amazing that it is my destiny to be the first Aussie to win the Masters.
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My family didn't have any money growing up. I'm just a girl from the ghetto; from Indio, California.
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Possessions. The very word is potent - suggestive as it is of ownership both material and erotic. To possess. Possession. Possessed.
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It's incumbent on us to reach beyond the confines of the institutions that traditionally produce art and find new ways to get it to the people.
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It's a lot harder to get people to 'ooh' and 'aah' over beets and carrots than it is to get them to 'ooh' and 'aah' over artichokes or asparagus, and I enjoy being able to take these humble, 'lowbrow' foodstuffs up a few notches and serve them with great exuberance.
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I don't know whether schooling would have helped me get farther along in music at this time. I doubt it would have.
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My favorite film score is the one Thomas Bangalter created for 'Irreversible.' The soundtrack absolutely defines the daymare-into-nightmare feeling you get from the film.
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If I can contribute to people having fun, I would feel very fulfilled as an artist.
