Shakira Quotes
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Ignorance is bliss. I wish I still had some.
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One of the last books I read was 'Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime' by John Heilemann and Mark Halperin. It gives a really good behind-the-scenes look at the campaigns. I didn't ask the president how accurate it was. I wouldn't ask him that.
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If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.
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I was born in San Diego, and we moved to Los Angeles when I was seven. A couple of years later, I started acting!
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In the 20th century, the United States endured two world wars and other traumatic and expensive military conflicts; the Depression; a dozen or so recessions and financial panics; oil shocks; a flu epidemic; and the resignation of a disgraced president. Yet the Dow rose from 66 to 11,497.
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The most fascinating person is always the one of the most winning manners; not the one of greatest physical beauty.
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Preachers at black churches are the last people left in the English-speaking world who know the schemes and tropes of classical rhetoric: parallelism, antithesis, epistrophe, synecdoche, metonymy, periphrasis, litotes - the whole bag of tricks.
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The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
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I've been on the campaign trail so long, some of my wine has turned to vinegar.
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The definition of a Schwarzenegger Republican is a Bush Republican who says he's a Schwarzenegger Republican.
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I shall always respect the composer. If I embellish, it is his idea I am embellishing.
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No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.
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When restraint and courtesy are added to strength, the latter becomes irresistible.
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It is useful to the historian, among others, to be able to see the commonest forms of different phenomena, whether phonetic, morphological or other, and how language lives, carries on and changes over time.
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Maybe I'm the kind of athlete who absorbs the atmosphere instead of trying to block it out.
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I hope she misses the cut. She doesn't belong here.
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We set up a situation and let you interact with it and see the consequences of your choice. That's what gaming does.
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With 'Free Agent Nation,' I was figuring out how to write a book along with writing the book. Now I think I've kind of, sort of figured out how to write a book a little bit better. But the process remains not that different - slow; laborious; tiny, incremental progress each day, punctuated by feelings of despair and self-loathing.
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We're on the radar now. There is no hiding.
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After a day of writing, I love nothing more than to go into my kitchen and start chopping onions and garlic on the way to cooking an improvised meal with whatever ingredients are on hand. Cooking is the perfect counterpoint to writing. I find it more relaxing than anything else, even naps, walks, or hot baths.
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Most federal employees perform their tasks honorably and well.
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I was in a peacetime army. It was like something out of a Le Carre novel: studying the habits of your enemy. It was very exciting. It's interesting living life as a civilian, then on Friday night you're parachuting into a foreign country.
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A free soul ought not to pursue any study slavishly, for nothing that is learned under compulsion stays with the mind.
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I'm a closet nerd. I love to study history and visit museums.
