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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The capability of negotiating... is something that means you not only have to understand fully what you believe and what your national interests are but in order to be a really good negotiator, you have to try to figure out what the other person on the other side of the table has in mind.
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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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I'm currently single, so I want to have fun! As for what guys need to do to date out of their league, it's all about the swagger. If you have confidence, you can get pretty much any girl.
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Dude, what matters is if you're happy. What matters is your future. What matters is that we get out of here in one piece. What matters is finding the truth of our own lives, not caring about what other people think is the truth of us.
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I definitely hand myself over to the hair and makeup gods of 'Girls.' Our look on the show is very specific, and it's different from mine in real life, although I've definitely learned things from working with both the hair and makeup people for the show.
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I hear that melting-pot stuff a lot, and all I can say is that we haven't melted.
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When I started out as an activist, the issues were much clearer. There's advantage to the new media, but on the other hand, you miss the ability to frame an issue that you had when there were just three TV networks: CBS, NBC, and ABC. So the whole world could see the same police dogs. The same Bull Connor and his white tank. Now you've got narrow-casting. The media is all fragmented. It's so hard to get people to focus in a sustained way.
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If I can contribute to people having fun, I would feel very fulfilled as an artist.
