Shakira Quotes
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Once I got married, I started working from an office. I found that having somewhere to go that isn't my house is mentally helpful: 'This is the place where I answer email and write blog posts,' and 'over there is the place where I do the dishes.'
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Retiring for good wasn't difficult. I knew at the time it was right. I was no longer capable of achieving the standards I'd set myself and there was no light at the end of the tunnel.
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We had to get serious and hit all aspects. We had to graduate. That's what you got to do: reach all people across the nation.
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Since the end of the Cold War, Soviet aggression had been replaced by a number of particularly venomous threats, from Timothy McVeigh to Osama bin Laden.
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In my early 20s, I was a big fan of Theodore Dreiser and might be one of the few people on the planet who have voluntarily read all his novels.
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I'm addicted to 'Scandal.' Joe Morton is the devil, and I love him. I am addicted to 'Boardwalk Empire.' Jeffrey Wright is the devil, and I love him.
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Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.
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The key to fashion is, you don't want to look like you're trying. You've gotta be natural.
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When I was born, my parents - my mother especially - couldn't come to terms with that fact that they had another baby girl. I know these stories in detail because every time a guest visited, or there was a gathering, they repeated this story in front of me that how I was the unwanted child.
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I just became a vegetable for three months. I couldn't talk to people. I was very ill and that was part of the reason I left college.
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When we started out in '64, um, I was playing Number One, which was a woman second in command of a star ship.
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My literary success meant nothing to me.
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That's the thing with sci-fi and action roles. You have to play the danger as real. If you don't, you end up with egg on your face. You have to commit. You can't think about how stupid it might look without the special effects.
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I like to stay home a lot. I like to do other things too, like decorate or build.
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I'm pretty much a straight guy on 'The Office.' We can't all be crazies. You need some balance.
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Our true nationality is mankind.
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My passion for ideas is not matched with a passion for partisan or electoral politics.
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Deterrence is still fundamentally about influencing an actor's decisions. It is about a solid policy foundation. It is about credible capabilities. It is about what the U.S. and our allies as a whole can bring to bear in both a military and a nonmilitary sense.
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Memories are like stones, time and distance erode them like acid.
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I told them, you can succeed - it's not likely the first time, maybe 25 per cent, but you CAN succeed. You can also die. By April 16 they had already been to camp III, well ahead of most teams.
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I feel like everyone directs their own career according to their taste, what they migrate to emotionally and what kind of artists they want to work with. And I'm lucky enough to be in a position where I can wait six months for a project that really interests me.
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As a young girl, I dreamed of having a voice in fashion.
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That game gave us a lot of confidence and the fans something to cheer for.
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I have two kids, a career, and a man that takes a lot of my attention and time.
