I consider myself a laborer, building my career brick over brick under the sun.
SHAKIRASo 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.
More Shakira Quotes
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Colombia is not how people think it is. We used to eat fish every Sunday at the beach. In the town where I grew up, people did not tell lies.
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Relationships have to have a give and take if they’re going to work in the long term.
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My dad used to take them to the notary and register them so that nobody could steal them from me.
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I just don’t find marriage a necessary step in a couple’s life.
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I feel comfortable in my pop shoes. They let me walk in any direction. I like to go from one extreme to the other. One day I feel that I want to do a song with reggaeton influence, I do it. The next day I feel I need to do a song with rock elements to it, I do it.
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I feel as passionate as when I was 13 years old and just released my first album. I feel the same amount of adrenaline in my blood, and the same amount of curiosity as well. Curiosity about why I’m different.
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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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You feel that there is an avalanche coming when you meet the right person.
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I’m convinced that promoting sport is an intelligent way of educating our children.
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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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Being raised in a developing country opened my eyes to so much I cannot tolerate. In Colombia, education is sometimes considered a luxury, not a human right. And it’s not a priority in the agendas of many leaders.
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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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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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In this life, to earn your place you have to fight for it.
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Our generation faces many challenges, some of which were passed on to us by the past generations, but it’s up to us to find solutions today so that we don’t keep passing our problems on.
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