I’ve shaken hands with every radio station, from Honduras to Ryan Seacrest’s.
SHAKIRAElixir’ 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.
More Shakira Quotes
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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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Sensual is everything that refers to the delight of the senses. And that’s what artists do, is stimulate the senses in any possible way.
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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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I would sing anywhere they would invite me. That’s how I made my first pesos. I used to sing at beauty pageants, local events of every sort.
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I’m convinced that promoting sport is an intelligent way of educating our children.
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You’re a song written by the hands of God.
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Our generation faces many challenges, some of which were passed on to us by the past generations, but it’s up to us to find solutions today so that we don’t keep passing our problems on.
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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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I admire Madonna because she always did whatever she felt like doing. She went through some controversial periods when people rejected her, but she kept on reinventing herself.
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I tried to give my career a shot from Barranquilla, but the musicians would never show up. It was just not taken seriously.
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And I think that is tremendously empowering and is not diminishing in any way. I fell that any woman who is in control, who is in touch with her femininity and sensuality, is a woman that is empowered.
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Success happened little by little for me. I tasted the flavor of fame in small doses: I started at 10 years old when I won a music contest; I was performing at birthday parties, company meetings.
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I want some day to be able to love with the same intensity and unselfishness that parents love their children with.
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Songwriting is such an intricate part of me as an artist and as a person; I couldn’t just let someone else do it.
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The worst mistake of a woman is to go to the kitchen, because then she never gets out of there.
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