Shakira Quotes
I came to understand that I'm never going to be the perfect mother, but I'm going to do the best I can. Same goes for everything in my life.
Quotes to Explore
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It's better to do a film that works.
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I love playing live, I don't like studios all that much. I need the reaction of the audience.
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I worry that my daughters are too taken care of.
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I've never been one to sit around and eat my heart out. Life's too short.
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In occupied Iraq, the introduction of new paper money took almost a year, 20 or so Boeing 747s, the mobilisation of the U.S. military's might, three printing firms, and hundreds of trucks.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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Celine Dion is my major inspiration.
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I wish I could compete again, but my good feeling is, these competitions are better as exhibitions.
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We see it in the body, that if you just give the body enough rest and comfort, it has remarkable self-healing capacities. Well, so does the spirit.
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I wanted to be a bull rider when I grew up.
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It was really impossible to break through in Russia. We couldn't buy any balls. We really didn't have any courts, no rackets, nothing. And no people to practice with.
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Nothing is ever for sure, but when something in love doesn't work from the beginning, it's never going to work. Don't push it.
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And my friends, you ain't seen nothin' yet.
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There's no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another.
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My favorite car is a '69 Barracuda.
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The first song I wrote was called 'Here I Go Falling In Love' I wrote it in the sixth grade.
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Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake it for a universal one.
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The Kardashians can be famous for being famous. What do they do? I can't figure it out.
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People see a lot of huge stuff on Broadway, but there's always Off-Broadway energy and also shows that you can work in.
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Braids are not new. Black women have been wearing braids for a very long time.
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Every great human achievement is preceeded by extended periods of dedicated, concentrated effort.
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Rituals, anthropologists will tell us, are about transformation. The rituals we use for marriage, baptism or inaugurating a president are as elaborate as they are because we associate the ritual with a major life passage, the crossing of a critical threshold, or in other words, with transformation.
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Every morning when I wake up, I am grateful and happy that I come to the film set. It is home.
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I came to understand that I'm never going to be the perfect mother, but I'm going to do the best I can. Same goes for everything in my life.
