I am an avid believer that education – and especially early childhood development – is the key to breaking the cycle of poverty.
SHAKIRAI 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.
More Shakira Quotes
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I love food, and I’m a chronic over-orderer at restaurants.
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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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I don’t go out without make up. I’m a woman, you know.
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I know what I’m doing even when I’m wearing a pencil skirt.
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Life is a soccer field, don’t you think?
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I was a real mummy’s girl – still am. And as for my father, well, I have an Oedipus complex I’m still working out. I love that man!
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Education is the only way forward in Latin America and developing countries in general.
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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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Because of you, I’m running out of reasons to cry.
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It’s incredibly liberating to spend an hour talking to someone and not caring about what you sound like. It’s about understanding myself. Sometimes I’ll speak to my therapist for an hour a day. It’s become part of my routine.
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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 think love is something that you have to work on, and it develops over experience and time. Love is a practice.
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I’m a multi-faceted woman and person, like all women are – there’s no black and white. We have shades of grey in the middle. And even many more colours that other people don’t see!
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Relationships have to have a give and take if they’re going to work in the long term.
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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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