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.
SHAKIRAI 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.
More Shakira Quotes
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I want some day to be able to love with the same intensity and unselfishness that parents love their children with.
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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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I remember the first time I saw the ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’ video.
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I never made it to the school choir because the music teacher didn’t like my voice.
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Gerard and I pretty much share all parenting responsibilities, although I’m definitely the disciplinarian.
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I came to understand that I’m never going to be the perfect mother, but I’m going to do the best I can. Same goes for everything in my life.
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Every day now, I discover something new. Go through phases in which I feel much more in touch with my feminine side in ways I never thought possible. I’m letting the woman inside of me speak, the desires of this woman, speak as loud as they can.
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I think my dad is the only Arabic descendent who is an unsuccessful businessman.
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All through my twenties, I spent more time worrying what I didn’t have than thinking about what I did have. I wished that I was taller, had longer legs, slimmer hips, a smaller bottom, even straighter hair.
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My body feels like it is asking to reproduce.
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I’m Colombian and nothing will change that.
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In this life, to earn your place you have to fight for it.
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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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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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I feel like I’m not on Earth just to shake it and shake it endlessly, you know?
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