Shakira Quotes

Writing in English was a major challenge. I didn't want other songwriters to write for me. I wanted to preserve the spirit of my songs in Spanish. I am the same Shakira in English as I am in Spanish.

Shakira

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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In China, you've got six people buying for one child. But the thing is, you've got the largest rising upper-middle class in the world.

Angela Ahrendts

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One of the problems that we have as American journalists is that we bring the American cultural baggage with us and we plop it down and it follows us around and that's just a fact of life.

John Pomfret

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You should not consider a man's age but his acts.

Sophocles

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I don't need to make a fortune, I need to survive.

Solomon Burke

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I experienced the judgement of a lot of people - and deservedly so.

Sienna Miller

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I get teased a lot for my optimism.

Rob McClure

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Wait until the baby is born before you start criticising it, I say!

Roger Moore

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These days, checks are direct-deposited, money comes out of a machine in the wall, and we swipe a plastic card to make a purchase. In other words, your kids can grow up thinking money comes in an endless supply if you don't show them otherwise.

Jean Chatzky

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The first time I heard 'Crazy Train,' I was crashed out in bed, definitely not wanting to get up and go to school, when my brother Vinnie came in and cranked it up.

Dimebag Darrell

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When I was in junior high school, I knew I really wanted to sing.

Dianne Reeves

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My first paying gig was a play called 'The Voice of the Prairie' at a theater that no longer exists in Chicago called Wisdom Bridge. I played a fast-talking radio huckster - a salesman of crystal sets in the 1920s - and I actually won an award. Look at that! And then promptly didn't get hired for a year.

Denis O'Hare

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I would not send a poor girl into the world, ignorant of the snares that beset her path; nor would I watch and guard her, till, deprived of self-respect and self-reliance, she lost the power or the will to watch and guard herself.

Anne Bronte

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