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Shakira Quotes

Fame isolates people from reality. That happens to many artists, and I don't want it to happen to me.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

People Me Reality Fame Want Happen

There's a misunderstanding about what nonsensical things are - the idea that they're just funny, and that's the beginning and the end of it. Nonsense is not 'not sense' - it operates at the edge of sense. It teems with sense - at the same time, it resists any kind of universal understanding.

Funny Time Beginning End Edge Kind

The reason bin Laden staggered the planes going into the towers was so every camera would be focused on the second tower when the plane hit. It was not only the murder, but the perpetual image of the horror that permeated into people's consciousness.

People Camera Focused Horror Image

We're in a kind of vicious cycle where the media tell the politicians, and the politicians tell the people, that perception is reality, and the perception of saving dooms a politician. I don't believe perception is reality, or that all Americans think that.

People Perception Believe Think Kind

Ideally, I'd love to write poems that intrigued humans across the board: literary folk and academics as well as... dog-walkers, doctors, plumbers, chefs, math professors, jugglers, etc.

Love Write Professors Academics Well

The day I go out there and don't want to win is the day I will give up.

Day Win Go Want Will Out

I do a variety of weight-lifting, elliptical glider, stretching exercises, push-ups. And I do the Canadian Air Force exercises almost every day.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Day Every Day Air Force Air Variety

The top players talk more now, and we have more meetings. We're just trying to get things better. But we still need somebody who could make a difference.

Better Make A Difference Meetings Now

I never had an official job, but I did play at a local cantina every Tuesday night, and I babysat a lot.

Michelle Branch

Job Night Play Never Tuesday Local

We all learn every day, and that's the magic about film making.

Day Learn Magic Every Day Film

What I'm asking for is a new economic order. I don't know how to construct that; I'm not an economist.

New Know Order Economic Asking How

A sense of humor is good for you. Have you ever heard of a laughing hyena with heart burn?

Good Heart Humor You Burn Sense

I was in my dad's church, his Baptist church, and I think the first song I ever performed was 'Jesus Be a Fence Around Me.'

Aretha Franklin

Me Song Think Church Fence First

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