President Obama is highly concerned with education. He’s a champion on early-childhood development strategies.
SHAKIRAThe worst frustration for a singer is choosing a career in making music and then not being able to make music because you’re always giving interviews.
More Shakira Quotes
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I’m barefoot whenever I can be.
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I have no idea where I want to go musically, but I’m fine that way. I don’t need to be faithful to any concept, you know.
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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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In the full light of day, I don’t want to think about the sunset.
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I do feel that I have to use my voice for those that don’t have one. I have to do the best I can in my own work to represent my culture, represent the women of my country, of Latin America. What we stand for. What we’re made of.
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I do take advantage of, you know, feeling sensual and feeling sexy.
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Brazil is a country I hold very dearly. I’ve got followers there who I’ve been interacting with for years, as well as fellow artists like Ivete Sangalo, and it also has huge figures like Pele.
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I wish that one of my children will be like the Australian guy from the Discovery Channel show. The crocodile hunter.
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Songwriting is such an intricate part of me as an artist and as a person; I couldn’t just let someone else do it.
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Colombia is not how people think it is. We used to eat fish every Sunday at the beach. In the town where I grew up, people did not tell lies.
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I’m Colombian and nothing will change 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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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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Providing all Latin-American children with the education and early childhood development that they need is in the best interest of all, so it has to be a priority for all of us, not only the government and civil society, but also the business sector.
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We’ve built six schools in Colombia and do work in South Africa and Haiti. We teach 5,000 students.
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