So I like the work he’s doing, and I support it, and I realise that he’s one of very few political leaders around the world that actually has early-childhood development strategise at the top of his agenda.
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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I believe that every single one of us, celebrity or not, has a responsibility to get involved in trying to make a difference in the world.
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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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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 love reading about history. Sometimes, I feel I was born in the wrong era. There was more creativity in the air when people were still discovering new worlds.
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A man’s car is like an extension of their ego and their manhood.
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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 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 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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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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For a while, I could only wear sweat pants because I was that intermediate size that you’re not a small, you’re not a large.
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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 never made it to the school choir because the music teacher didn’t like my voice.
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I feel comfortable in my pop shoes. They let me walk in any direction. I like to go from one extreme to the other. One day I feel that I want to do a song with reggaeton influence, I do it. The next day I feel I need to do a song with rock elements to it, I do it.
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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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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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