Relationships have to have a give and take if they’re going to work in the long term.
SHAKIRAI 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.
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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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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When you feel complete, you don’t need to get married, and you don’t think about it.
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I’d love to go to that World Cup – I’m not sure in what capacity, but I’ll definitely be there. I know that nobody wants to miss it, least of all me.
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I just want to grow old with a man who takes care of me, and I want to eventually have kids and want them to be good children to me. Just want to be treated nice and have respect.
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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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I thank God that I’m a product of my parents. That they infected me with their intelligence and energy for life, with their thirst for knowledge and their love. I’m grateful that I know where I come from.
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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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Fame isolates people from reality. That happens to many artists, and I don’t want it to happen to me.
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The truth is that I’m more afraid of marriage than of death.
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I feel like there is a part of me that represents a minority in the U.S., a minority around the world. People who struggle, people who want to succeed with drive and ambition.
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When we were in the Dark Ages, it was a question of humanity somehow managing to forget about itself. We put God in the centre of society, and people forgot about their own nature and desires. There was a huge deal of repression.
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A man’s car is like an extension of their ego and their manhood.
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I adore my dad. He’s a 78-year-old man and my inspiration.
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Life is a soccer field, don’t you think?
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