I just don’t find marriage a necessary step in a couple’s life.
SHAKIRAMy man, Gerard, prefers meat over bone. That takes the pressure off. I already have a lot to worry about.
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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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Gerard is just like me, but two meters tall. We’re very alike; it’s not for nothing that we were born on the same day, it’s just that he was born 10 years later… he’s a happy guy, healthy here, in the head.
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I know that youngsters want to find something in common with each other and feel closer to each other ideologically through bridges such as the Internet.
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I like to see people’s eyes when I’m singing to them.
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We’ve built six schools in Colombia and do work in South Africa and Haiti. We teach 5,000 students.
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I’m a multi-faceted woman and person, like all women are – there’s no black and white. We have shades of grey in the middle. And even many more colours that other people don’t see!
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I consider myself a laborer, building my career brick over brick under the sun.
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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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I always had the intuition, even as a little child, that I was called for a big project.
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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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A man’s car is like an extension of their ego and their manhood.
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I just think that it’s very helpful to have a map of your psyche, because when you have a map, you know where to go.
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I feel a real sense of duty to use the voice and the platform I’ve been afforded by my fame to speak out for those whose voices don’t get a chance to be heard.
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I have no idea where I want to go musically, but I’m fine that way. I don’t need to be faithful to any concept, you know.
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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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