Shakira Quotes
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I remember when I was growing up. My great wish was to understand who I was and how I fit in the world.
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I lived in Brooklyn from 2007 to 2012 but for the last few years have resided in Austin, Texas, where my world - especially the world of downtown - is predominantly white.
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I didn't agree with what Joe McCarthy was trying to do, but I sure did admire his methods.
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There is surely nothing other than the single purpose of the present moment. A man's whole life is a succession of moment after moment. If one fully understands the present moment, there will be nothing else to do, and nothing else to pursue. Live being true to the single purpose of the moment.
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I think that the training of architects allows you to see what will happen ten years ahead of time, or twenty. It's not guessing, it's not intuitive, it's based on research - and we may be wrong.
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I should have been deliriously happy. I had my dream come true. I'm a best-selling author. So why is everything in my life, including my writing, going bad?
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My mother was against me being an artist. She just wanted me to marry a rich man.
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A ton of little girls I talk to, they want to be actresses or singers or models.
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Human faces shouldn't get lost amid the statistics.
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I don't think being a writer who is religious means you have to write about nothing but religion. When I do write about religion, it's to inform the story, not to push a certain agenda.
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I am always worried that over-planning and outlining will kill the magic of writing; most of the world I created in 'California' occurred via good old sexy sentence-making.
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Well, an actor is an actor is actor, to paraphrase someone or other and the opportunity to work, to have a steady engagement, certainly seemed like an appealing concept to me.
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Going to a concert is so overwhelming and the energy is amazing.
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Any beast can cry over the misfortunes of its own child. It takes a mensch to weep for others' children.
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On the issue of abortion, I'm ever on the fence, or, at most, an inch or two to either side.
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The truth only irritates those it enlightens, but does not convert.
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Obviously I try to make the best music that I can, but after about two years of making an album, you start to worry: 'Is it going to come out all right? Is it all going to sound churned out?'
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I have an obsession with mortality. I saw a friend die when I was 18, and I can't get over it.
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I'm just not one of those people who thought having biological children was that important, to me it was more about wanting to raise a child.
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Well, I think of the folks who are the climate deniers as the flat Earthers and the people who say the moon landings never happened.
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It's into the same bag as E.T. and Yoda, wherein you're trying to create something that people will actually believe, but it's not so much a symbol of the thing, but you're trying to do the thing itself.
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I think controversy is not always a bad thing. Jesus was controversial. It's through controversy that people often wake up and smell the coffee and say, 'What's going on here? Do we need to rethink something here?'
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I vigorously deny hitting Ms. Sheridan.
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I like to see people's eyes when I'm singing to them.
