Shakira Quotes
I never thought it was fair for an 8-year-old child not to be able to afford shoes, or to wander the streets having to beg for money. To know that child's joy would end soon, when they realised there was no future.
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I'm awful with directions, and I'm not very handy around the house.
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I live in a 'sky island,' a unique mountain valley environment where half the animal species of North America can be found.
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I firmly believe that any good journalist must essentially be temperamentally an outsider. I don't think full sense of belonging and security is conducive to creativity.
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I hadn't focused on mechanics since I signed professionally.
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The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing that you know things, and believing in the Christian religion.
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I search for surprise in my architecture. A work of art should cause the emotion of newness.
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It's the fans that need spring training. You gotta get 'em interested. Wake 'em up and let 'em know that their season is coming, the good times are gonna roll.
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Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
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Before you begin designing or buying anything, you need to get real and ask yourself: What do you really want to use this room for? What do you want to do in this room but can't now?
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The first time you meet someone, the conversation is sort of on life support. You're just trying to live another moment in the life of the conversation.
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I was an escapee of childhood. I always wanted to grow up.
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Especially in comedies, I think a lot of time the female characters are there to provide a balance for guys.
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Without a doubt, I'd love to do Broadway. I actually can't wait to get back to musical theater.
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Since I was a small child, I was always writing either poems or plays... plays in which I had the starring part.
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If there is no criticism, you become lazy. But it should be constructive, and it should be the truth. If it's biased and there's no truth in it, then I don't care about it. If it's true, it helps me grow.
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The more research you do, the more at ease you are in the world you're writing about. It doesn't encumber you, it makes you free.
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Independence is a very subjective assessment.
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I want people to treat me as normally as they can. Anybody who doesn't, I feel awkward with.
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The people that call me to play on records call me because they think that I will suit their music. And the people whose music I suit are by and large people that I'm a fan of.
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Running through things because you are familiar with them, breeds routine and this is the seed of boredom.
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When you stop to take a minute and look at Queen Latifah's career, she came out of the box right. You know, 'Ladies First!' And she's been consistent with that message of female self-empowerment. She really has!
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Sincere regret may be a faculty for paying attention to the future, for sensing a new tide where we missed a previous one, for experiencing timelessness with a grandchild where we neglected a boy of our own.
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As an architect you design for the present, with an awareness of the past, for a future which is essentially unknown.
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I never thought it was fair for an 8-year-old child not to be able to afford shoes, or to wander the streets having to beg for money. To know that child's joy would end soon, when they realised there was no future.
