Shakira Quotes
For a while, I could only wear sweat pants because I was that intermediate size that you're not a small, you're not a large.Shakira
Quotes to Explore
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The humor is essentially dark for a cartoon and sophisticated. But at the same time, being a cartoon gives the writers more freedom than in a normal sitcom. It always pushes the line that, despite human failings, the Simpsons are really decent people.
Dan Castellaneta -
When I write sad songs, I feel like I'm sewing up a scar in me, and the outcome always feels so much better than when I write happy ones.
Sam Smith -
People should know what they want, not just what they don't want.
Abdolkarim Soroush -
I don't play anymore, because I know I'm not going to be a pro golfer. So there's no reason to golf.
Zack Greinke -
No critic writing about a film could say more than the film itself, although they do their best to make us think the oppposite.
Federico Fellini -
The questions don't do the damage. Only the answers do.
Sam Donaldson
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You can imagine me as a kid growing up in redneck Texas with ballet shoes, tucking the violin under my arm. I had to fight my way up.
Patrick Swayze -
Financial analysts make a lot more than accountants.
Warren Farrell -
Singing in Yiddish was a great thrill for me and came about through Joe Papp, the founder of The Public Theater.
Mandy Patinkin -
I never sing in the shower either.
Barbra Streisand -
As a kid, I dreamed of being a pop star, a glamorous woman and traveling the world. And I've done that all my life.
Samantha Fox -
Spiritual practice should not be confused with grim duty. It is the laughter of the Dalai Lama and the wonder born with every child.
Jack Kornfield
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Making the record was tons of fun, the most fun I've ever had.
Iris DeMent -
Some of those stories in local newspapers are just as dull and boring as the stories that I get from on-line services, which are basically sort of straight news.
Tabitha Soren -
I bought my first electric guitar when I moved to Memphis; a Gibson with a DeArmond pickup which I used with a small Gibson amplifier.
B. B. King -
Limitations can be hugely creative and hugely inspiring - so long as they are the ones you choose for yourself. I will not allow anyone to take anything off my palette, but if I do, then within that, I can be creative.
Patrick Ness -
The historical circumstance of interest is that the tropical rain forests have persisted over broad parts of the continents since their origins as stronghold of the flowering plants 150 million years ago.
E. O. Wilson -
Conventional is not for me. I like things that are uniquely Flo. I like being different.
Florence Griffith Joyner
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I was absolutely convinced that I wouldn't win the Nobel Prize. My impression was that the Nobel Prize in Literature was given to people more or less affiliated with, let's say, socialist ideas, and that was not my case.
Mario Vargas Llosa -
I don't mind expressing my opinions and speaking out against injustice. I would be doing this even if I wasn't a writer. I grew up in a household that believed in social justice. I have always understood myself as having an obligation to stand on the side of the silenced, the oppressed, and the mistreated.
Tayari Jones -
Small businesses are really the engine in the economy.
Karen Mills -
When I look at Kickstarter, I see small businesses that have been funded by their customers. I see the acceleration of this shift away from the industrial manufacturing ideology to more of a maker economy. And I also see an idea so powerful that the company name has become a verb.
Om Malik -
For a while, I could only wear sweat pants because I was that intermediate size that you're not a small, you're not a large.
Shakira