Shakira Quotes
Being raised in a developing country opened my eyes to so much I cannot tolerate. In Colombia, education is sometimes considered a luxury, not a human right. And it's not a priority in the agendas of many leaders.
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Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
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Home court changes everything. If you have home court, you're expected to win.
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I think Woody Allen is Woody Allen, and no matter where he goes he still makes his Woody Allen films.
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I'd like to scale back the television. I'm constantly told that I'm over-exposed, and I don't want to end up like Carol Vorderman.
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I don't mind talking about 'what might have been,' but I am not one to doubt or regret most of my decisions.
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Being a celebrity, I don't even have to talk.
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I realized that women's liberation is men's liberation, too.
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We were taught manners and we had to do our chores - Katie and I grew up as normal kids.
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I have more of a desire to write songs about being an independent woman than being in love, songs about getting up and moving on even if I have a broken heart.
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Words aren't very good at describing complicated, strange visual things. You can try, and the reader will have some sort of image in their mind, but words aren't good at that.
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Disciples be damned. It's not interesting. It's only the masters that matter. Those who create.
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In December 2004, I travelled on the road from Uzbekistan across the Oxus River on which the first Soviet convoys had rolled into Afghanistan 25 years before.
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I went from 118 pounds to 135 pounds in a few months. But, I still didn't know anything about food.
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We need to ask who is the enemy, and the enemies are terrorists.
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There are no free lunches in life. You have to earn it. I am paying my dues. People have accused me of having it easy because I am Amitabh Bachchan's son. Yes, I am his son, and I've never run away from it. I work hard to make him proud.
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Ordinary Muslims in Europe, who suffer from the demoralisation caused by living as perennial objects of suspicion and contempt, are far from thinking of themselves as a politically powerful, or even cohesive, community, not to speak of conquerors of Europe.
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Hollywood would make a holocaust an animated comedy if people would pay to see it; they don't care... they just want your money.
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Authority has to exist before it can be limited, and it is authority that is in scarce supply in those modernizing countries where government is at the mercy of alienated intellectuals, rambunctious colonels, and rioting students.
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It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.
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I stay out of politics because if I begin thinking too much about politics, I'll probably... drop writing children's books and become a political cartoonist again.
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I wasn't a ladies' man.
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Young people are choosing cities before the country - they have their own ranking.
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It's a very American thing that everything has to be a business. Americans think... I like America, or I would not be here. There are great qualities to this country. But this sense that everything has to be a business is sometimes overwhelming.
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Being raised in a developing country opened my eyes to so much I cannot tolerate. In Colombia, education is sometimes considered a luxury, not a human right. And it's not a priority in the agendas of many leaders.
