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.
SHAKIRABrazil 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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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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People are not depressed in Colombia the same way people are in America.
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The truth is that I’m more afraid of marriage than of death.
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Education is the only way forward in Latin America and developing countries in general.
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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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The ALAS Foundation was born as a consequence and a continuation of what we are doing with Pies Descalzos.
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I think love is something that you have to work on, and it develops over experience and time. Love is a practice.
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I adore my dad. He’s a 78-year-old man and my inspiration.
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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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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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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.
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People think I like to expose my body. But I don’t. It’s just because the dance moves require it.
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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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I was a real mummy’s girl – still am. And as for my father, well, I have an Oedipus complex I’m still working out. I love that man!
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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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