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.
SHAKIRAI’m lucky to have family around me. Otherwise, I’ll be taking the risk of falling in love with myself.
More Shakira Quotes
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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 always had the intuition, even as a little child, that I was called for a big project.
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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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In the full light of day, I don’t want to think about the sunset.
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Education is the only way forward in Latin America and developing countries in general.
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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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What I do is I remove my makeup every night, use a little bit of Vitamin C serum, and that’s it, pretty much. Of course, I use my 3D White products!
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I just don’t find marriage a necessary step in a couple’s life.
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I started my own Pies Descalzos/Barefoot Foundation when I was 18. We provide education to vulnerable children in Colombia and other developing countries.
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I started the Pies Descalzos foundation in Colombia when I was 18, and since then I have been very involved in the crusade for education.
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I came to understand that I’m never going to be the perfect mother, but I’m going to do the best I can. Same goes for everything in my life.
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Brazil is a country I hold very dearly. I’ve got followers there who I’ve been interacting with for years, as well as fellow artists like Ivete Sangalo, and it also has huge figures like Pele.
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I know that youngsters want to find something in common with each other and feel closer to each other ideologically through bridges such as the Internet.
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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 am an avid believer that education – and especially early childhood development – is the key to breaking the cycle of poverty.
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