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.
SHAKIRAI’m a closet nerd. I love to study history and visit museums.
More Shakira Quotes
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I tried to give my career a shot from Barranquilla, but the musicians would never show up. It was just not taken seriously.
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You can’t achieve anything in life without a small amount of sacrifice.
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I would sing anywhere they would invite me. That’s how I made my first pesos. I used to sing at beauty pageants, local events of every sort.
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When I finally did see him, he was even cuter than I imagined!
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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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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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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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And I think that is tremendously empowering and is not diminishing in any way. I fell that any woman who is in control, who is in touch with her femininity and sensuality, is a woman that is empowered.
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I love food, and I’m a chronic over-orderer at restaurants.
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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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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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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 get jaded in every profession, but for some reason,
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Becoming a mom forced me to re-prioritize and make room for the things that are most important, while recognizing that there are things I can let go of, and the world won’t crumble around me.
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I’m convinced that promoting sport is an intelligent way of educating our children.
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