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.
SHAKIRAFame isolates people from reality. That happens to many artists, and I don’t want it to happen to me.
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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My songs are the reflection of how I think and how I feel in that moment. But I’m conscious of the fact that artists have a responsibility before the masses and they have to take care with their words.
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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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A good fragrance should have a certain personality that makes people identify the scent with you.
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I think, that if you can prove the existence of God, it can only be proven through love.
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President Obama is highly concerned with education. He’s a champion on early-childhood development strategies.
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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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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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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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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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Relationships have to have a give and take if they’re going to work in the long term.
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My team and I have reunited two elements that coexist with difficulty: respect and affection, because when they love you they don’t respect you and when they respect you they don’t love you.
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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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I did not want to spend the rest of my life not being able to ride in a nice car.
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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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