Becoming a mom forced me to re-prioritize and make room for the things that are most important, while recognizing that there are things I can let go of, and the world won’t crumble around me.
SHAKIRAThe truth is that I’m more afraid of marriage than of death.
More Shakira Quotes
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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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People are not depressed in Colombia the same way people are in America.
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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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At the age of eight, I discovered that I could write songs.
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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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I never made it to the school choir because the music teacher didn’t like my voice.
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I was a real mummy’s girl – still am. And as for my father, well, I have an Oedipus complex I’m still working out. I love that man!
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My therapist taught me why I behave in certain ways and not to feel so pressured.
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I feel like I’m on an anthropological mission.
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Life is a soccer field, don’t you think?
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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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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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The worst mistake of a woman is to go to the kitchen, because then she never gets out of there.
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Fame isolates people from reality. That happens to many artists, and I don’t want it to happen to me.
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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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