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I now talk to different cultures, and I hope that I can bridge those gaps and differences between us. It's an adventure, a dream... I feel like I'm on an anthropological mission.


Shakira

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LIKE I I did not have one butterfly out there today,'' he said.
LIKE I Married to the Mob.
LIKE I Hello you're with Drudge.
LIKE I I don't expect Christian Fundamentalists to reach out to me. They are adamant that homosexuals are i...
LIKE I throw enough shit at the wall and some should stick?
LIKE I I'm not happy, that's all I can say about it,'' he said.
LIKE I I have kept a diary,
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JOSE JAMES I'm excited about turning 40. I've been an adult for a long time, but there is a difference ...
JILL SCOTT I feel like I'm a boy, but I don't feel like I should've been born with different parts ...
RUBY ROSE I'm committed to sign in everything I communicate, but I also speak. I still believe that I reac...
I. KING JORDAN I'm one of those people who when I go over a bridge, I want to jump. It's just this intense ...
WILLEM DAFOE I'm not a politician, I'm not an ideologue, I'm not an organizer anymore. I'm a huma...
HARI KONDABOLU I feel like I'm working on an oil rig right now. I'm away from home a lot.
HUGH LAURIE I don't talk about how old I am because sometimes it can affect parts that you get in Hollywood....
GARRETT CLAYTON I'm very comfortable with an R-rating. I feel like it sounds like what people talk like in real ...
DAVID DOBKIN I'm not an artist that makes singles, I'm an artist that makes albums, and it's a totall...
RAEKWON Things are better now that the attention has subsided a bit, and I'm happier. Now I can concentr...
LIU XIANG Do I feel like I'm 65? No. I feel like I'm 15. That's my problem. I'm trying as hard...
RIC FLAIR In some ways. I always feel between worlds, between cultures, and I think that's not necessarily...
PATRICK NESS I grew up having two different perspectives - one in English, one in Spanish. Two different cultures...
PRINCE ROYCE I was watching TV one day, and I'm like, 'How did those people get on TV? I'm gonna try ...
BENJAMIN STOCKHAM I'm conflicted about the lyric tattoo thing. I feel like that's a lifetime decision, and I a...
SAM HUNT I have learned that a bitter experience can make you stronger. I now boastfully say that I have a hi...
MEL GIBSON You know how sometimes you hear a chord played on an organ and you can feel it vibrating in your bon...
LAURIE HALSE ANDERSON I'm like an old vampire, so it's important to talk to young people.
MANOLO BLAHNIK I have different hats; I'm a mother, I'm a woman, I'm a human being, I'm an artist a...
ANNIE LENNOX It's easy for me to say that now, now I'm a father, I've got a four-and-a-half year old ...
ALAN VEGA I can't even imagine what it's like and right now I'm like in shock, I can't believe...
TARA LIPINSKI Guilty pleasure implies that it's something that I feel guilty for watching... people tell me I ...
NE-YO There's those young girls that I once was, looking up to Mia Hamm, Christine Lilly, all those pl...
ALEX MORGAN I remember perfectly my first trip to New York, when I was on the bridge between Brooklyn and Manhat...
DIEGO DELLA VALLE Until they come up with an independent woman who's on an adventure of her own, I don't think...
MICHELLE RODRIGUEZ If I don't talk about my religion, if I say I'm not discussing it or different humanitarian ...
TOM CRUISE I'll admit a little something: If I go to one of those hotels where there's, like, a $50 ome...
TIMOTHY OLYPHANT I feel like somehow I'm living my life mentally in reverse. It's taken me to my 30s to feel ...
KAREN ELSON I feel like my life is pretty much on display. So much of it is working, and that's really all I...
CASSIE STEELE I never feel like I've been pushed towards a certain thing, but now, at 26, I do feel like I hav...
CASSIE VENTURA I feel a buzzing at the base of my neck. It's like I'm on eternal 'vibrate' in case ...
JOHN EDWARD I read an interview where someone said, 'It's a shame that anyone can make a movie now,'...
JASON BLUM I feel like I'm kind of faking something if I'm talking as myself and putting on an accent.
MELANIE LYNSKEY Success is always something completely different to people. I feel like I've succeeded, if I'...
KRISTEN STEWART It's hard for me to just say, 'Wow, this is amazing - I'm famous. I'm living the dre...
SHAWN MENDES I feel more confident and like I have more to say. I feel like I'm working more than ever, not j...
OLIVER SIM I think they should create a holiday for friends-with-benefits relationships. Because I feel like Va...
ELIZABETH MERIWETHER I just feel like I'm such a normal person in an industry that is so chaotic and crazy. I am what...
VICKY MCCLURE I find it quite hard to sum up my relationship in a sound bite. I feel that it trivializes it for ot...
EMILY BLUNT I'm a religious woman. And I feel I have responsibility. I have no modesty at all. I'm even ...
MAYA ANGELOU I was in Barcelona working with Shakira, and it was an amazing experience. She's a great artist,...
MALUMA I have a general sense of mission, and I intuitively know when something is influencing that mission...
ABIGAIL WASHBURN It feels like a dream come true, being a Bond girl. I feel like a princess. It's hard to believe...
STEPHANIE SIGMAN I think it's really important for artists in general to invest in themselves. And I view my scho...
SARAH GADON I'm an enigma, an unknown. You can't really figure out what I'm going to do next. I like...
EMMITT SMITH I just always want a new producer. I'm going to have a new producer on the next one. Because I&#...
CATIE CURTIS I'm the champ that puns the camp! That's what I always wanted. I wanted to be seen as a main...
BECKY LYNCH For so many years, I've been an actor acting in other people's movies, and in 'Unstoppab...
KIRK CAMERON I just feel like people like a little break. Especially at 12:37 at night, you go, like, 'I'...
JIMMY FALLON So, it's like: I'm an OK singer; I'm an OK guitar player and you put them together and.....
CALLIE THORNE Over there, Kevin McHale, I feel like I'm talking to someone I know. It's just a total diffe...
LATRELL SPREWELL I'm so disappointed in the frat parties at Columbia. I'm like an English boy going to an Ame...
MAX MINGHELLA I feel like, when I'm 100% healthy, I can do anything.
KATARINA JOHNSON-THOMPSON I feel like I can be a frontman; I feel like I have good songs.
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LAILA ALI I'm always improving and I want to get better and never hit a plateau. I find it an amazing adve...
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DANA DAVIS I'm not a parenting expert. In fact, I'm not sure that I even believe in the idea of 'pa...
BRENE BROWN I read every country's perspective on an issue. I also play many games like Bridge, Scrabble and...
INDRA NOOYI Sometimes I feel like I'm a preacher as well, 'cause I can really get into an audience.
JAMES BROWN I'm so happy in the projects that I'm able to make, to be involved in projects like this. Th...
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AYAD AKHTAR Well I forgot how different it was because I've been here for about four or five years. It's...
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IOAN GRUFFUDD I'm half Jewish, I'm half black, I look in-between. I dress funny. I play all these differen...
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ADRIAN TOMINE I feel, as an adult, I'm very similar to how I was as a pre-teen. Maybe it's a case of arres...
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