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Shakira Quotes

When we were in the Dark Ages, it was a question of humanity somehow managing to forget about itself. We put God in the centre of society, and people forgot about their own nature and desires. There was a huge deal of repression.

Shakira

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
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Birth: February 2, 1977

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Nature God People Society Humanity

They put me on the shift where they thought I could do the least harm, midnight to eight in the morning. Although the hours were lousy, they were perfect for an apprentice reporter.

Andrea Mitchell

Morning Me Thought Perfect Midnight

Some say I'm arrogant, some say I'm deluded.

Tony Bellew

Say Arrogant Some Deluded

If you're going to grow the economy, if people are going to have more income, you have to have stability in the marketplace.

Jason Chaffetz

People Grow You More Economy Going

I know runners who have suffered a tick bite and ended up with Lyme disease. I'll take an angry moose any day.

Don Kardong

Day Angry Know Up Take Disease

I spoke French a bit, and I could speak a bit of this and that, and when you were taught those things by people who couldn't really do it, you can do some pretty wonderfully, imaginative horrific things to teachers.

Diane Cilento

People Speak You Teachers Pretty

When we realize that something as primal as the food that we choose to eat each day makes such an important difference in addressing both global warming and personal health, it empowers us and imbues these choices with meaning. If it's meaningful, then it's sustainable - and a meaningful life is a longer life.

Dean Ornish

Life Health Food Day Choices Choose

While 'Visitation Street' has the markings of a traditional whodunnit mystery - starting with a missing girl, intrigue and many suspicious characters - Pochoda shows her hand early on by fingering a culprit. The book turns, then, into a 'whydunnit.'

Claire Cameron

Girl Book Mystery Early Street Hand

Sometimes you can fall into bad habits on film or rest on your laurels, and you can't do that in theater. I think it's such a useful tool as a person and as an actor to go back and forth between those two mediums.

Ari Graynor

Rest Think You Fall Bad Back

It may take you months or even a few years to build up an adequate emergency savings fund. That's okay.

Suze Orman

You Build Okay Emergency Savings Up

Natural selection is not an inflammatory phrase; evolution is.

Peter Agre

Evolution Natural Natural Selection

The government employs scientists of many varieties in technical capacities, from estimating the environmental toxicity of a chemical to the structural soundness of a bridge. But when it comes to forming policies, these scientists and, especially, behavioral scientists are rarely at the table with the lawyers and the economists.

Richard Thaler

Government Environmental Bridge Table

American decline is real, though the apocalyptic vision reflects the familiar ruling class perception that anything short of total control amounts to total disaster.

Noam Chomsky

Vision Control Perception American