Shakira Quotes
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I want to break down some of the stigma associated with mental illness.
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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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Minimalism now is a reaction to what came before. It's absolutely of its time. Music moved into the set theory thing, and moved out of it.
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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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My people are few. They resemble the scattering trees of a storm-swept plain.
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The idea of seeing everybody clad the same is not really my cup of tea.
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People only speak to get something.
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There's many women now who think, 'Surely we don't need feminism anymore, we're all liberated and society's accepting us as we are'. Which is just hogwash. It's not true at all.
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When people hear my story, my hope is always that they start to believe that the life they want is possible for them, because I am living the life I've always dreamed.
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I like to see people's eyes when I'm singing to them.
