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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Maine people have a live-and-let-live philosophy, and tend to be fair and open-minded.
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Together, together, my friends, we have begun a political revolution to transform America, and that revolution, our revolution, continues!
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The individual soul touches upon the world soul like a well reaches for the water table. That which sustains the universe beyond thought and language, and that which is at the core of us and struggles for expression, is the same thing. The finite within the infinite, the infinite within the finite.
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There are interesting forms of difficulty, and there are unprofitable forms of difficulty. I mean, I enjoy some difficult poetry, but some of it is impenetrable and I actually wouldn't want to penetrate it if I could, perhaps.
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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.
