Brazil 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.
SHAKIRAIn this life, to earn your place you have to fight for it.
More Shakira Quotes
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My songs are the reflection of how I think and how I feel in that moment. But I’m conscious of the fact that artists have a responsibility before the masses and they have to take care with their words.
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President Obama is highly concerned with education. He’s a champion on early-childhood development strategies.
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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 think my dad is the only Arabic descendent who is an unsuccessful businessman.
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At the age of eight, I discovered that I could write songs.
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I don’t go out without make up. I’m a woman, you know.
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I can take the spotlight that shines on me and shift it towards those issues that are infinitely more important than my own issues.
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A kid cannot learn with an empty stomach.
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I was five years old; I got addicted to being on stage. I felt like it was the most wonderful place on Earth, performing in front of an audience, who in this case were a bunch of classmates, kids my age.
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You can’t achieve anything in life without a small amount of sacrifice.
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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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I will never forget that day. I just wanted to see Kurt Cobain’s face. I had a feeling he was very cute. But, I couldn’t see his face.
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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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It’s very difficult to think that you’re with someone that you know, and all of a sudden you don’t know them: it turns out that they betray you. It’s painful, but it’s best to turn the page.
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