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Quotes by Colombian Authors

"I like drama. I love being in a drama where I get to be the funny guy. That's what I really love the most."
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"I like drama. I love being in a drama where I get to be the funny guy. That's what I really love the most."
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"It doesn't bother me to talk about my private life, it doesn't bother me to talk about anything. My life is like a glass of water, transparent."
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"It doesn't bother me to talk about my private life, it doesn't bother me to talk about anything. My life is like a glass of water, transparent."
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"I always believed that women have rights and that there are some women that are intelligent enough to claim those rights. There are some others that are stupid enough not to."
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"I always believed that women have rights and that there are some women that are intelligent enough to claim those rights. There are some others that are stupid enough not to."
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"I want some day to be able to love with the same intensity and unselfishness that parents love their children with."
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"I want some day to be able to love with the same intensity and unselfishness that parents love their children with."
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"I'm Colombian and nothing will change that."
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"I'm Colombian and nothing will change that."
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"The heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good."
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"The heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good."
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"If you're asking if my breasts are natural, yes, this is how I've looked since I was 13 years old."
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"If you're asking if my breasts are natural, yes, this is how I've looked since I was 13 years old."
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"Because of you, I'm running out of reasons to cry."
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"Because of you, I'm running out of reasons to cry."
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"I just want to serve Colombia."
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"I just want to serve Colombia."
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"What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it."
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"What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it."
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"No one can feel as the owner of the country and no one can feel excluded from the right of property. We must all suffer Colombia."
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"No one can feel as the owner of the country and no one can feel excluded from the right of property. We must all suffer Colombia."
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"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."
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"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."
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"Writing in English was a major challenge. I didn't want other songwriters to write for me. I wanted to preserve the spirit of my songs in Spanish. I am the same Shakira in English as I am in Spanish."
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"Writing in English was a major challenge. I didn't want other songwriters to write for me. I wanted to preserve the spirit of my songs in Spanish. I am the same Shakira in English as I am in Spanish."
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"It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams."
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"It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams."
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"Yeah, that came out of a reading. It was great. It's such a fun crew to be with, and we all went out the night before and that really encouraged us to go out and get drunk."
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"Yeah, that came out of a reading. It was great. It's such a fun crew to be with, and we all went out the night before and that really encouraged us to go out and get drunk."
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"The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast."
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"The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast."
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"You're a song written by the hands of God."
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"You're a song written by the hands of God."
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"In the name of justice there cannot be subjection and in the name of peace there cannot be impunity."
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"In the name of justice there cannot be subjection and in the name of peace there cannot be impunity."
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"I admire Madonna because she always did whatever she felt like doing. She went through some controversial periods when people rejected her, but she kept on reinventing herself."
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"I admire Madonna because she always did whatever she felt like doing. She went through some controversial periods when people rejected her, but she kept on reinventing herself."
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"My songs are the reflection of how I think and how I feel in that moment. But I'm conscious of the fact that artists have a responsibility before the masses and they have to take care with their words."
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"My songs are the reflection of how I think and how I feel in that moment. But I'm conscious of the fact that artists have a responsibility before the masses and they have to take care with their words."
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"Everyone can know what is in my heart because I find it hard to conceal myself."
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"Everyone can know what is in my heart because I find it hard to conceal myself."
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"I don't believe in God, but I'm afraid of Him."
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"I don't believe in God, but I'm afraid of Him."
God,
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"I admire a person who, for the love of art, is able to take off their clothes in front of a camera. But I'm not capable, I'm too cowardly for that."
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"I admire a person who, for the love of art, is able to take off their clothes in front of a camera. But I'm not capable, I'm too cowardly for that."
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"I pefer an ugly truth to a pretty lie. If someone is telling me the truth that is when I will give my heart."
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"I pefer an ugly truth to a pretty lie. If someone is telling me the truth that is when I will give my heart."
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"Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood."
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"Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood."
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"An early-rising man is a good spouse but a bad husband."
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"An early-rising man is a good spouse but a bad husband."
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"She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them."
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"She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them."
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"Latins for Republicans - it's like roaches for Raid."
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"Latins for Republicans - it's like roaches for Raid."
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"Writing songs has a therapeutic effect, and it either kills off love or wins the heart of the lover."
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"Writing songs has a therapeutic effect, and it either kills off love or wins the heart of the lover."
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"The interpretation of our reality through patterns not our own, serves only to make us ever more unknown, ever less free, ever more solitary."
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"The interpretation of our reality through patterns not our own, serves only to make us ever more unknown, ever less free, ever more solitary."
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"I was unaware of the dispute in Brooklyn. I would never knowingly wear any clothes or support any company who produced clothing with alleged wage and labor violations."
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"I was unaware of the dispute in Brooklyn. I would never knowingly wear any clothes or support any company who produced clothing with alleged wage and labor violations."
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"A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father."
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"A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father."
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"Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry."
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"Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry."
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"I will protect all Colombians regardless of whether the attacks come from guerrillas or paramilitaries."
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"I will protect all Colombians regardless of whether the attacks come from guerrillas or paramilitaries."
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"No, not rich. I am a poor man with money, which is not the same thing."
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"No, not rich. I am a poor man with money, which is not the same thing."
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"I was familiar with that and 'Rio Bravo.' 'Rio Bravo' was what John Carpenter did, that brilliant move of taking a western and turning it into an urban flick. And from there you got, you know, all the cop genre movies of the time."
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"I was familiar with that and 'Rio Bravo.' 'Rio Bravo' was what John Carpenter did, that brilliant move of taking a western and turning it into an urban flick. And from there you got, you know, all the cop genre movies of the time."
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"My team and I have reunited two elements that coexist with difficulty: respect and affection, because when they love you they don't respect you and when they respect you they don't love you."
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"My team and I have reunited two elements that coexist with difficulty: respect and affection, because when they love you they don't respect you and when they respect you they don't love you."
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"Injections are the best thing ever invented for feeding doctors."
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"Injections are the best thing ever invented for feeding doctors."
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"I don't go out without make up. I'm a woman, you know."
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"I don't go out without make up. I'm a woman, you know."
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"The basic dream of many Colombians is to have a secure nation, without exclusions, with equity, and without hatred."
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"The basic dream of many Colombians is to have a secure nation, without exclusions, with equity, and without hatred."
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"In this life, to earn your place you have to fight for it."
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"In this life, to earn your place you have to fight for it."
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"Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability."
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"Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability."
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"Necessity has the face of a dog."
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"Necessity has the face of a dog."
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"He wanted to be a lawyer, couldn't afford it, so he started dealing to go to college - good intention."
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"He wanted to be a lawyer, couldn't afford it, so he started dealing to go to college - good intention."
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"If God hadn't rested on Sunday, He would have had time to finish the world."
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"If God hadn't rested on Sunday, He would have had time to finish the world."
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