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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.

Shakira

I’m Colombian and nothing will change that.
SHAKIRA

Change Country Nothing People Person
Life is a soccer field, don’t you think?
SHAKIRA

Field Life Soccer Think
Education is the only way forward in Latin America and developing countries in general.
SHAKIRA

Country Develop Education Forward General Only
Fame isolates people from reality. That happens to many artists, and I don’t want it to happen to me.
SHAKIRA

Fame Isolate Person
Elixir’ 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.
SHAKIRA

Ancient Bottle Depict Elixir Kind Look Magicial Mean Modern Potion Times Use Want
My dad used to take them to the notary and register them so that nobody could steal them from me.
SHAKIRA

Dad Nobody Notary Register Steal Use
Because of you, I’m running out of reasons to cry.
SHAKIRA

Cry Out Reason Run
So I like the work he’s doing, and I support it, and I realise that he’s one of very few political leaders around the world that actually has early-childhood development strategise at the top of his agenda.
SHAKIRA

Actual Childhood Development Leader Political Strategies Support
In this life, to earn your place you have to fight for it.
SHAKIRA

Earn Fight Life Place
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.
SHAKIRA

Discover Platform Point Psychoanalytical View
My therapist taught me why I behave in certain ways and not to feel so pressured.
SHAKIRA

Behave Certain Feel Pressure Taught Therapist Way
People get jaded in every profession, but for some reason,
SHAKIRA

Every Get Jade People Profession Reason Some
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.
SHAKIRA

Able Admire Camera Clothes Love Person
I always knew that I was tremendously creative. I recited love poems, I wrote stories and I got excellent grades in every subject, except for maths.
SHAKIRA

Always Creative Excellent Grade Knew Poem Recite Story Subject Tremendous Wrote
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!
SHAKIRA

Face Multi Person Woman
I believe that every single one of us, celebrity or not, has a responsibility to get involved in trying to make a difference in the world.
SHAKIRA

Believe Every One Responsibility Single White

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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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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