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.
SHAKIRAThe worst frustration for a singer is choosing a career in making music and then not being able to make music because you’re always giving interviews.
More Shakira Quotes
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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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When you feel complete, you don’t need to get married, and you don’t think about it.
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I think my dad is the only Arabic descendent who is an unsuccessful businessman.
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I was unaware of the dispute in Brooklyn. I would never knowingly wear any clothes or support any company who produced clothing with alleged wage and labor violations.
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When I finally did see him, he was even cuter than I imagined!
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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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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 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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I know what I’m doing even when I’m wearing a pencil skirt.
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Gerard and I pretty much share all parenting responsibilities, although I’m definitely the disciplinarian.
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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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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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People get jaded in every profession, but for some reason,
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I do feel that I have to use my voice for those that don’t have one. I have to do the best I can in my own work to represent my culture, represent the women of my country, of Latin America. What we stand for. What we’re made of.
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My body feels like it is asking to reproduce.
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