I’ve shaken hands with every radio station, from Honduras to Ryan Seacrest’s.
SHAKIRAI was five years old; I got addicted to being on stage. I felt like it was the most wonderful place on Earth, performing in front of an audience, who in this case were a bunch of classmates, kids my age.
More Shakira Quotes
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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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Videos come definitely after the music has been created, but I have always felt, and especially today, that videos are vital in the album process. I think that we live in a very visual era, and if you make a mistake with a video, those images will accompany the song forever.
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Fame isolates people from reality. That happens to many artists, and I don’t want it to happen to me.
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In this life, to earn your place you have to fight for it.
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The truth is that I’m more afraid of marriage than of death.
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A kid cannot learn with an empty stomach.
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I think, if you can prove the existence of God, it can only be proven through love.
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I feel as passionate as when I was 13 years old and just released my first album. I feel the same amount of adrenaline in my blood, and the same amount of curiosity as well. Curiosity about why I’m different.
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Gerard and I pretty much share all parenting responsibilities, although I’m definitely the disciplinarian.
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At the age of eight, I discovered that I could write songs.
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I remember the first time I saw the ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’ video.
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I’m barefoot whenever I can be.
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I always knew that I was tremendously creative. I recited love poems, I wrote stories and I got excellent grades in every subject, except for maths.
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If the fastest growing population in this country is Latino, that means we are the future of this country. And, we have proven we have talent. Now we need the tools to succeed.
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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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