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Since the end of the Cold War, Soviet aggression had been replaced by a number of particularly venomous threats, from Timothy McVeigh to Osama bin Laden.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'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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My father put it right when he said: 'I don't get ulcers. I give ulcers.'
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I have a man and a woman in the same body; I have the male and female values in the same body.
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From the time I was 18, I knew I wanted to be a comedian, but I was just scared to try it. And first I thought, 'Well, I should go to college and get a degree.' That didn't pan out.
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We should be about more than just selling chicken: we should be a part of our customers' lives and the communities in which we serve.
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I've grown up a lot, and I have such great memories of playing football.
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From a purely external point of view there is no will; and to find will in any phenomenon requires a certain empathy; we observe aman's actions and place ourselves partly but not wholly in his position; or we act, and place ourselves partly in the position of an outsider.
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I have two kids, a career, and a man that takes a lot of my attention and time.
