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.
SHAKIRAI know what I’m doing even when I’m wearing a pencil skirt.
More Shakira Quotes
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You can’t achieve anything in life without a small amount of sacrifice.
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I can take the spotlight that shines on me and shift it towards those issues that are infinitely more important than my own issues.
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I always had the intuition, even as a little child, that I was called for a big project.
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Success happened little by little for me. I tasted the flavor of fame in small doses: I started at 10 years old when I won a music contest; I was performing at birthday parties, company meetings.
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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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My therapist taught me why I behave in certain ways and not to feel so pressured.
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From a psychoanalytical point of view, we start discovering the world through our mouths in the very first stage of our lives, when we’re just born.
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I’ve written many love songs for Gerard. But it’s never enough. I feel that he deserves a million love songs written for him.
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The 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.
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I remember the first time I saw the ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’ video.
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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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I started the Pies Descalzos foundation in Colombia when I was 18, and since then I have been very involved in the crusade for education.
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I like to see people’s eyes when I’m singing to them.
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I am a person who has many dreams. But as soon as I accomplish one, I move on to the next. That’s my fatal, absurd nature.
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President Obama is highly concerned with education. He’s a champion on early-childhood development strategies.
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