Shakira Quotes

I love reading about history. Sometimes, I feel I was born in the wrong era. There was more creativity in the air when people were still discovering new worlds.

Shakira

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

LoveHistoryCreativityPeopleFeel

I was living in New York. Sometimes, our gang of musicians would go to Louis Armstrong's home and play records. It was a lesson, like going to school at night. Ella Fitzgerald was an inspiration, too, a unique artist. When you had an opportunity to be with people like them, you cherished it.

Jimmy Scott

HomeOpportunitySchoolNew YorkYou

I'm wildly different than Maria Bamford or Sarah Silverman, and might be more similar to some male comics.

Jen Kirkman

MoreDifferentThanSomeComics

I love cooking Japanese food at home. It's so easy to make an easy fry, a saute, or a quick braise and serve it over a bowl of rice with pickles and a side salad.

Andrew Zimmern

LoveHomeFoodCookingEasySalad

I have a huge interest in hockey because I grew up in Canada, where it's kind of the law that you love hockey.

Matthew Perry

LoveLawHockeyYouCanadaKind

While researching 'The Submission,' I went to a protest against the Ground Zero mosque in New York when I was about to give birth to twins. It was about 100 degrees. People thought I was very dedicated.

Amy Waldman

New YorkPeopleThoughtNewBirth

I want my books to explore motives which make people think, 'Wow! Imagine the psychological state you'd have to be in for that to be your motive!' Whereas things like blackmail, jealousy - they're rational reasons for committing murder.

Sophie Hannah

JealousyPeopleThinkYouWantWow

Macintosh felt like a system. As I learned more, I felt like I was able to guess how new things would work. I felt like the bugs in my programs were more my bugs and not things I misunderstood.

Steven Sinofsky

WorkNew ThingsNewMisunderstood

Age does take it out of you, and I haven't the energy I had before. Sometimes I have breakfast and sit in this chair, and I wake up and it is lunchtime. In the past, the idea of sleeping through a morning would have horrified me, but you have to accept the limitations that old age imposes on you.

Tony Benn

MorningAgePastOld AgeBreakfast

We have entered a new phase in Islamist terror. Fifteen years after 9/11, our enemies have regained their momentum.

Michael McCaul

MomentumNewYearsEnemiesPhase

What is most important to me is that my narrator's voice is believable, and that, though it is clearly an absolute fiction, it has the emotional resonance of memoir.

Chris Bohjalian

MeVoiceImportantEmotionalClearly

I have always been a multitasker when it comes to my career; I've been an actress, a singer and everything because I love to do what I do.

Christina Milian

LoveCareerAlwaysEverythingSinger

The more you live, the better an actor you are, but maybe I'd like to do something else on the side. Something to pay the bills as well.

Clemence Poesy

LiveBetterYouActorMorePay

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