President Obama is highly concerned with education. He’s a champion on early-childhood development strategies.
SHAKIRAMy 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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People get jaded in every profession, but for some reason,
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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 am a person who has many dreams. But as soon as I accomplish one, I move on to the next. That’s my fatal, absurd nature. Human beings are slaves to our dreams, and I am, too. Now I think I just want to share my musical proposal in its entire form.
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My body feels like it is asking to reproduce.
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I’m convinced that promoting sport is an intelligent way of educating our children.
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I am a person who has many dreams. But as soon as I accomplish one, I move on to the next. That’s my fatal, absurd nature.
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I just want to grow old with a man who takes care of me, and I want to eventually have kids and want them to be good children to me. Just want to be treated nice and have respect.
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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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Fame isolates people from reality. That happens to many artists, and I don’t want it to happen to me.
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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 consider myself a laborer, building my career brick over brick under the sun.
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In this life, to earn your place you have to fight for it.
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It’s incredibly liberating to spend an hour talking to someone and not caring about what you sound like. It’s about understanding myself. Sometimes I’ll speak to my therapist for an hour a day. It’s become part of my routine.
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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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Gerard doesn’t tell me what to do. We discuss everything as a couple, as I imagine most partners do. We have a beautiful relationship and one of mutual trust.
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I feel like I’m not on Earth just to shake it and shake it endlessly, you know?
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The truth is that I’m more afraid of marriage than of death.
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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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I love reading about history. Sometimes, I feel I was born in the wrong era. There was more creativity in the air when people were still discovering new worlds.
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My brain, I believe, is the most beautiful part of my body.
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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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If it was up to me, I would just wear jeans and t-shirts, even to red carpets, but then no one would photograph me, so that would make me very sad. So you know, I’ve gotta keep up with the rest of the female population and sometimes try a little harder.
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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 like to see people’s eyes when I’m singing to them.
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Gerard and I pretty much share all parenting responsibilities, although I’m definitely the disciplinarian.
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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.
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