Shakira Quotes
My man, Gerard, prefers meat over bone. That takes the pressure off. I already have a lot to worry about.
Quotes to Explore
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A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.
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My dad's one of the funniest men in the world. I grew up with him making me laugh so much I'd beg him to stop.
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I was with the Jessie Bonstelle Stock Company in Detroit and Buffalo for three seasons - 10 performances and a new play every week. She was an amazing woman who did a great deal for me.
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My mother worked in factories, worked as a domestic, worked in a restaurant, always had a second job.
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I can't exactly say why there's not much protest music to speak off. And I know there are acts out there still putting a message in their music.
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The importance of local governance may not be obvious to an America accustomed to treating city and state downfalls with doses of federal comeuppance. Sometimes there's a reason for that - the Civil War. More often, all reasoning seems absent - No Child Left Behind.
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I've been in the room or watched artists walk in who don't write, and you can't figure out what they really want.
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I don't want to become known as just a body.
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You make your mistakes to learn how to get to the good stuff.
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I think about terrorism in terms of popcorn. You can't tell which kernels are popcorn and which are not, but you assume you'll always have some kernels that are going to pop.
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I just picked up golf, it was good, give me a chance to play golf.
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What's the most important thing in the world? It's love, and I look at that as an energy, not a sentiment.
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I got a great kick being in the Warner Bros. studios - that was really cool. I kept singing the 'Looney Tunes' theme song all day. I'm sure they haven't heard that one before.
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People need to know that they are not alone, that they have not been abandoned; but that there is One Who loves them for what they are, Who cares about them.
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Let love flow so that it cleanses the world. Then man can live in peace, instead of the state of turmoil he has created through his past ways of life, with all those material interests and earthly ambitions.
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People like to see me fight. A name can only take you so far. There are only a few fighters out of the thousands of boxers out there that have name recognition. I'm definitely not upset by that.
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Now, on nights that I can't sleep, I play video games alone until the morning.
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In America, it is traditional to destroy the black body - it is heritage.
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I really don't worry about what people say or what they have to say or what they think - it just doesn't matter.
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I don't know if it's irrational, and I would never say this before, but I think I'm a little bit agoraphobic when I'm in huge crowds of people. I mean, it's claustrophobic, probably – small spaces and large groups of people, anxiety rises for me.
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We should realise that Hollywood is not obliged to write roles for Asian actors.
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Everyone was thinking it was going to be a bust. I felt redeemed.
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For me, everything about the telling is guided by tone. It's a bit mysterious; it's either there, or it isn't.
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My man, Gerard, prefers meat over bone. That takes the pressure off. I already have a lot to worry about.
