My body feels like it is asking to reproduce.
SHAKIRAIf the fastest growing population in this country is Latino, that means we are the future of this country. And, we have proven we have talent. Now we need the tools to succeed.
More Shakira Quotes
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I like fragrances that have some sweetness to them. All three I have developed have that as a common element.
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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 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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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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The worst mistake of a woman is to go to the kitchen, because then she never gets out of there.
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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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Both the IDB and Fundacion ALAS believe that the future of prosperity and equality that we hope for has to start today with higher investment and higher quality in Early Childhood Development programs throughout the region.
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I just don’t find marriage a necessary step in a couple’s life.
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The truth is that I’m more afraid of marriage than of death.
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My man, Gerard, prefers meat over bone. That takes the pressure off. I already have a lot to worry about.
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I like to see people’s eyes when I’m singing to them.
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Education is the only way forward in Latin America and developing countries in general.
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I’m lucky to have family around me. Otherwise, I’ll be taking the risk of falling in love with myself.
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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 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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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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I wanna stay an eternal girlfriend. I want to have my boyfriend’s children, but I don’t think we need a piece of paper to regulate the game, and we don’t have to go through the whole stress of a wedding and suffering to throw a good party.
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I thank God that I’m a product of my parents. That they infected me with their intelligence and energy for life, with their thirst for knowledge and their love. I’m grateful that I know where I come from.
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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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A man’s car is like an extension of their ego and their manhood.
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I didn’t expect babies to need so many diapers. Nobody told me they needed to be changed so often.
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Videos come definitely after the music has been created, but I have always felt, and especially today, that videos are vital in the album process. I think that we live in a very visual era, and if you make a mistake with a video, those images will accompany the song forever.
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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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You feel that there is an avalanche coming when you meet the right person.
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From a psychoanalytical point of view, we start discovering the world through our mouths in the very first stage of our lives, when we’re just born.
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I consider myself a laborer, building my career brick over brick under the sun.
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