My brain, I believe, is the most beautiful part of my body.
SHAKIRAColombia 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.
More Shakira Quotes
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When you feel complete, you don’t need to get married, and you don’t think about it.
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I know what it’s like to feel that fear and the need of affirmation and appreciation. To build confidence in yourself is the toughest thing.
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I didn’t expect babies to need so many diapers. Nobody told me they needed to be changed so often.
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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 wish that one of my children will be like the Australian guy from the Discovery Channel show. The crocodile hunter.
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We need to provide higher quality and innovative early childhood development programs all throughout Latin America.
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I just don’t find marriage a necessary step in a couple’s life.
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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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People think I like to expose my body. But I don’t. It’s just because the dance moves require it.
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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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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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Fame isolates people from reality. That happens to many artists, and I don’t want it to happen to me.
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Elixir’ means magical potion, so I wanted to depict the kind of bottle that was used in ancient times, but that looked modern and chic as well. I also wanted it to have a golden tint to evoke the memories of sands and sunsets.
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Every day now, I discover something new. Go through phases in which I feel much more in touch with my feminine side in ways I never thought possible. I’m letting the woman inside of me speak, the desires of this woman, speak as loud as they can.
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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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