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Shakira Quotes

I'm just a consequence of the great musical momentum and the great changes we are going through in the world.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Great World Momentum Changes Going

When I sit down to write a song, there is no filter. I'm not trying to write for anyone or anything specifically. It's just trying to capture a little piece of your soul - even if it's a really ugly part.

Soul Ugly Song Trying Down Capture

I used a kind of gray-green early on in my practice for painting steel, to make it look more like it had a kind of patina to it, like copper and bronze and so on. The color I used was a Benjamin Moore color called 2012. My then-young daughter started calling me 2012 - it was my nickname.

Daughter Practice Me Painting Color

I've also said you don't rule any options out, because if you are in public life because you want to make a difference... obviously, you have to be open to those kind of possibilities.

Life Make A Difference Possibilities

When my kids wanted to give up on things, I wouldn't let them, and those are lifelong lessons.

Up Things Give Kids Lessons Wanted

When people move from one extreme set of views to embrace another equally batty picture of the world, they expect us to applaud their choice, as if the fact that they have rejected one form of nuttiness somehow validates the screwball views they hold now.

People World Picture Choice Embrace

I certainly enjoy doing pantomime-y things, but I didn't have any specific training in it.

Training Doing Enjoy Things Specific

Now, for this book I had to learn the world of the Senate, which is really for all that's written about the Senate, an unknowing world and its mores, and the way things work with subcommittees and all. I loved learning about that.

Work Learning World Book Loved Way

Only she who attempts the absurd can achieve the impossible.

Impossible Achieve She Absurd Only

Being transgender is not just a medical transition.

Medical Transition Transgender Just

I've gotten my personal life all the way intact and made sure that it's straight. Without that, you have no foundation. Your building is going to crumble.

Life Building Foundation You Way

My game is characterised by consistency.

Consistency Game

A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen.

Winston Churchill

Tomorrow Week Year Why Happen Month

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