President Obama is highly concerned with education. He’s a champion on early-childhood development strategies.
SHAKIRAFrom 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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People get jaded in every profession, but for some reason,
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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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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’m convinced that promoting sport is an intelligent way of educating our children.
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I wanna stay an eternal girlfriend. I want to have my boyfriend’s children, but I don’t think we need a piece of paper to regulate the game, and we don’t have to go through the whole stress of a wedding and suffering to throw a good party.
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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 do take advantage of, you know, feeling sensual and feeling sexy.
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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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I’m lucky to have family around me. Otherwise, I’ll be taking the risk of falling in love with myself.
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Life is a soccer field, don’t you think?
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Education is the only way forward in Latin America and developing countries in general.
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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 love food, and I’m a chronic over-orderer at restaurants.
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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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Gerard is just like me, but two meters tall. We’re very alike; it’s not for nothing that we were born on the same day, it’s just that he was born 10 years later… he’s a happy guy, healthy here, in the head.
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I’m a closet nerd. I love to study history and visit museums.
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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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Both the IDB and Fundacion ALAS believe that the future of prosperity and equality that we hope for has to start today with higher investment and higher quality in Early Childhood Development programs throughout the region.
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I 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.
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When you have a baby, when you feel his love, you feel so at peace with the world. You just want to share the good news and share how happy you feel.
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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’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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My man, Gerard, prefers meat over bone. That takes the pressure off. I already have a lot to worry about.
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I am an avid believer that education – and especially early childhood development – is the key to breaking the cycle of poverty.
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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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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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