Shakira Quotes

I do feel that I have to use my voice for those that don't have one. I have to do the best I can in my own work to represent my culture, represent the women of my country, of Latin America. What we stand for. What we're made of.

Shakira

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: musician
  • Nationality:
  • Birth: February 2, 1977

Topics

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In films, the fact that you can always do a scene again takes a load off your mind, enabling you to strive for perfection, which I always wanted.

Jessie Matthews

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I've read the 'Book of Revelation' a million times. It does not make sense, obviously. It needs to be decoded.

Megan Fox

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I had given up some youth for knowledge, but my gain was more valuable than the loss.

Maya Angelou

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Racing may be a minority sport, but I wouldn't swap it for all the money in the world.

Tony McCoy

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My intent was to gain experience for fiction I eventually hoped to write. But there's no question I was drawn in by the hope that journalism would be a creative, thrilling environment.

Tom Rachman

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While I do, of course, now feel the pressure having had books that have been very successful, I just know I have to concentrate on writing for myself. I can't worry about genres or markets or what might be commercial or not. That never works.

Lisa Morton

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Things have a way of being richer in the end, a product better made, for the circuitous route we take to include all the elements that are necessary for a job well done.

David Whyte

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Women's virtue is man's greatest invention.

Cornelia Otis Skinner

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Well, I don't like the word 'rock star,' the two words, 'rock star.' Not even 'soft rock star. Not even limestone star. I don't like those words.

Chris Martin

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If hopes were dupes, fears may be liars.

Arthur Hugh Clough

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Watching 'Interstellar' is really like watching two movies slowly collide with each other.

Annalee Newitz

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I have to tell you that the innovation and the technology and the entrepreneurship of the world still lies in the United States of America.

Phil Gramm

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