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Shakira Quotes

I am trying to make my accent so it won't bother anyone, but I am not going to drive myself crazy trying to pretend I am an American girl when I am from Colombia.

Shakira

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Girl Myself I Am Crazy Drive Trying

I deal with gay and black conservatives who don't want to be called Uncle Toms of their politically correct Marxist multi-cultural unit structure. And they come to me saying, 'What can I do?' And I say, 'Lay low.'

Andrew Breitbart

Me Saying Black Uncle Gay Want

There were many times that I took such a big hit that I was dazed; I'm not going to lie. I'd see black, but I'm still looking for the puck. Where's the play going? I'm going to keep going. Same thing in figure skating. If I take a hard fall, I'm going to get up, and I'm going to do the next jump.

Max Aaron

Keep Going Lie Looking Black Play

I think this Occupy Wall Street thing is great. I think that is a good thing and that people need to stand up, voice their opinions, and be heard.

Simon Baker

Good Great People Stand Up Think

Historically, the women who have been the great painters of the canon have very often have been the wives or daughters of supportive men. Like Artemisia, whose father was a very established painter. I will say that the two current contemporary artists I admire the most are women: Kara Walker and Swoon.

Molly Crabapple

Father Women Great Men Say Admire

I always try to create conflict and drama in my books; it's the engine of the novel.

Monica Ali

Conflict Create Drama Try Always

My kids completely understand that I may be on a huge show or in a big movie, but most of the time, they are not terribly impressed.

Jason Winston George

Time Understand Big May Show Kids

Not winning a title gives fuel to sportswriters and talking heads who question an athlete's true value.

Don Yaeger

Value Winning Talking Athlete True

Eventually, you know the rhythm of your character, of the set of the piece. It takes less energy for you to hit that point, and then everything resonates. But initially, it takes a tremendous amount of energy. You just hope it's gonna be okay and you don't forget your lines and those cameras.

Courtney B. Vance

Character Hope Energy You Know Okay

Experience is the extract of suffering.

Arthur Helps

Experience Suffering Extract

I'm nervous about our civic culture. I'm not sure the Internet is largely the cause of it. It's certainly the cause of careless writing. People who get used to blurbing things on the Internet are never going to be good writers.

Antonin Scalia

Good Culture People Writing Internet

I grew up a happy kid in Toronto. I've never suffered. I've never even had a real job! But I understand sadness and striving, and those two things tie into all the roles that I've played.

Alison Pill

Job Happy Sadness Striving Never

The second advantage claimed for naturalism is that it is equivalent to rationality, because it assumes a model of reality in which all events are in principle accessible to scientific investigation.

Phillip E. Johnson

Reality Events Investigation Because