Shakira Quotes
My team and I have reunited two elements that coexist with difficulty: respect and affection, because when they love you they don't respect you and when they respect you they don't love you.
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It was kind of easier for me to do records that didn't take a year or two years of my life to write and to make.
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If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
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The secrets of slavery are concealed like those of the Inquisition.
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We don't need to bring down the rich folk to help the poor.
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Take, for example, the African jungle, the home of the cheetah. On whom does the cheetah prey? The old, the sick, the wounded, the weak, the very young, but never the strong. Lesson: If you would not be prey, you had better be strong.
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You learn something out of everything, and you come to realize more than ever that we're all here for a certain space of time, and, and then it's going to be over, and you better make this count.
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You can over-think things. If the script's good, everything you need is in there. I just try and feel it and do it honestly. I also don't learn things for auditions, because I feel like it's just a test of memorising rather than being real.
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I could battle rap forever, but it's a joke to me.
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Teenagers did not have, before rock 'n' roll and rhythm-and-blues - they did not have any type of music they could call their own once they got over 4 or 5 years old until they were well into their 20's and considered adults.
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You know, when I did 'American Idol' the three times, I tried to tell these kids you have to tell the story of the lyric.
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Having a place out of the city is a shortcut toward the mental reset I need.
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Trent likes to record guitars direct, whereas I've always preferred playing through an amplifier.
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And for a very special group of people, we've provided their only job. I'm speaking of course of the disabled. They have stated they don't want a hand out just a hand. We are happy to give them one.
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I go on stage with what God gave me - and that's a natural high. I don't need nothing to perk me up. The audience picks me up enough. That's the total God's truth.
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Whatever you do needs to be sustainable over time, and taking the money in the short term and taking it in a bubble - like buying an Internet stock in 2000 - may not be sustainable.
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We need another revolution in the Arab world. We need an education revolution. If there's one thing we need to focus on, it's redesigning our educational systems.
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Just being in the gym every day with someone with goals in common is special.
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My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.
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As I was coming up on the stage, there was one source that could make or break you, the New York Times. Inevitably there would be one actor singled out for a better review, or worse, than somebody else. The effect of that was cancerous, divisive.
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Microsoft is engaging in unlawful predatory practices that go well beyond the scope of fair competition.
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My dad used to sing in a quartet. He loved everything: adult contemporary, anything smooth. He'd listen to the quartets.
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I was taught to respect everyone for the simple reason that we're all God's children. I was taught, in the words of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.... to judge a man not by the color of his skin, but by the content of his character. And I was taught that character...is simply doing what's right when nobody's looking.
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My team and I have reunited two elements that coexist with difficulty: respect and affection, because when they love you they don't respect you and when they respect you they don't love you.
