I am an avid believer that education – and especially early childhood development – is the key to breaking the cycle of poverty.
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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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 unaware of the dispute in Brooklyn. I would never knowingly wear any clothes or support any company who produced clothing with alleged wage and labor violations.
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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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I never made it to the school choir because the music teacher didn’t like my voice.
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When you have a baby, when you feel his love, you feel so at peace with the world. You just want to share the good news and share how happy you feel.
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A kid cannot learn with an empty stomach.
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I’m barefoot whenever I can be.
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You feel that there is an avalanche coming when you meet the right person.
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Education is the only way forward in Latin America and developing countries in general.
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I think a fragrance is all about sensations and imagery, and can evoke visions, feelings and thoughts.
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For a while, I could only wear sweat pants because I was that intermediate size that you’re not a small, you’re not a large.
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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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I’m Colombian and nothing will change that.
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I’d love to go to that World Cup – I’m not sure in what capacity, but I’ll definitely be there. I know that nobody wants to miss it, least of all me.
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When we were in the Dark Ages, it was a question of humanity somehow managing to forget about itself. We put God in the centre of society, and people forgot about their own nature and desires. There was a huge deal of repression.
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