Shakira Quotes
Gerard and I pretty much share all parenting responsibilities, although I'm definitely the disciplinarian.
Quotes to Explore
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Everyone thinks I land in a chopper on top of my building and I have the most cushy existence. Could you understand that I might have the most messed up life myself?
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Any art worthy of its name should address 'life', 'man', 'nature', 'death' and 'tragedy'.
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Actors, to a certain extent, never grow up, you see. It's an extension of being out in the back yard with a stick, only you're being paid to do it. It's borderline madness.
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I remember a tour where we played 50 cities in 56 days. We also went to Europe a couple of times.
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I've always thought that I'm sexy in my own right, but not in a way that people thought was bankable.
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I think of Twitter as the place where I go to have a great conversation when I can't have one locally, which seems to be all the time, and the more time that I spend on Twitter, the more I sort of curate this incredible group of very intelligent people that I just get to know purely through the quality of their thoughts.
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He who gives love, receives love.
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It gives me immense pleasure to be trustworthy, faithful, and true – to have the kind of romantic bond that inspires this.
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Life comes from the earth and life returns to the earth.
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I take nothing away from my existence in the 'hood, because it sharpened my instincts. We had a different way of living that developed our survival instincts, and I use those to this day when I make films. You can't buy that.
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I don't use the voice of Bart when I'm making love to my husband, but Marge's voice turns him on a little.
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I don't like running when I'm holding things in my hand, whether it's a dog leash or a baby jogger. My mechanics get all messed up.
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After I lost my fiance, it seemed like it would be better to always be alone than to risk being hurt again.
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After I'd hit a home run and took my position in the field, the fans in the bleachers began throwing packages of tobacco at me. I stuffed them in my pocket.
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I had the feeling that focusing on objects and telling a story through them would make my protagonists different from those in Western novels - more real, more quintessentially of Istanbul.
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I meet everybody. If somebody invites me to their house and they got a drum set close, I'm going to play, man. Let's jam. I don't care. Get in where you fit in and enjoy the experience.
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Fresh air is good if you do not take too much of it; most of the achievements and pleasures of life are in bad air.
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Going out for a meal, especially for young urbanites, is less about socialising over enjoyable food than about enjoying food as a way to socialise.
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My first memory - at about four - was of numbers. The doctors who study me think a combination of mild autism and seizures I had when I was three have made me experience numbers the way I do.
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I hope there are going to be plenty of more roles to come.
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Just because you're married doesn't mean that you have to spend 24/7 together and can't have separate interests and hobbies. In a healthy relationship, you both understand - and respect - that you need time apart doing what you want to do.
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The library world is set up on this model where the library is a physical building and has a number of books and serves a geographical community.
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It's not often that I'm being called femme fatale.
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Gerard and I pretty much share all parenting responsibilities, although I'm definitely the disciplinarian.
