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Shakira Quotes

All through my twenties, I spent more time worrying what I didn't have than thinking about what I did have. I wished that I was taller, had longer legs, slimmer hips, a smaller bottom, even straighter hair.

Shakira

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Time Hair Thinking Legs More Bottom

I'd just sit with Dee Dee on the corner off of Queens Boulevard and drink and insult people and stuff. That's when I got kicked out of my house. My mother told me it was for my own good.

Joey Ramone

Good Mother People Me House Insult

I don't have any issues with clowns - I feel like I owe them an apology in some ways.

John Carroll Lynch

Feel Apology I Feel Like Like Clowns

I was worried when I returned that I might be booed or barracked. Nobody has waved fivers at me. I am touched by the reception since I have come back.

John Higgins

I Am Me Back Nobody Come Reception

To sit back and say, 'Oh, we're going to let the government do whatever they want, right or wrong,' is giving up.

Michael Franti

Government Giving Back Wrong Want

When I started studying for the arias it was like going into training for a heavyweight title fight.

Michael Bolton

Training Fight Studying Going Like

I was not interested in irony; I wanted to emphasize the primacy of the idea in making art.

Sol LeWitt

Art Irony Not Interested Idea Making

In opera tradition, when opera die-hard fans, there is a replacement of singer or singer wasn't at his or hers vocal best, doing something, they boo. Especially now that they pay hundreds of dollars for the ticket.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

Best Tradition Doing Now Pay Singer

My image is me. I talk for myself. I didn't become this person others wanted me to be.

Monica

Myself Me Person Become Talk Image

I believe that there will be many things that happen to me in my life that I will not be able to explain. Some of those might be magic. I'm not sure.

Chris Van Allsburg

Life Me Believe My Life Magic Will

Give me liberty or give me a bran muffin!

Colin Mochrie

Me Liberty Give Me Give Muffin

I keep saying to everyone that one day I'll write a love song.

Anne-Marie

Love Day Song Saying One Day Write

When I grew up, there were locked cabinets in public libraries. You needed parental permission if you were under eighteen. I was let down by the overblown reputations of some hardcore fictional works.

Allan Gurganus

You Down Up Eighteen Let Down Some