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.
SHAKIRAI 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.
More Shakira Quotes
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I adore my dad. He’s a 78-year-old man and my inspiration.
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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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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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Success happened little by little for me. I tasted the flavor of fame in small doses: I started at 10 years old when I won a music contest; I was performing at birthday parties, company meetings.
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I’m convinced that promoting sport is an intelligent way of educating our children.
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I’d love to go to that World Cup – I’m not sure in what capacity, but I’ll definitely be there. I know that nobody wants to miss it, least of all me.
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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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I always had the intuition, even as a little child, that I was called for a big project.
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I just want to grow old with a man who takes care of me, and I want to eventually have kids and want them to be good children to me. Just want to be treated nice and have respect.
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I’m a closet nerd. I love to study history and visit museums.
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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 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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If 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.
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I believe that every single one of us, celebrity or not, has a responsibility to get involved in trying to make a difference in the world.
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I know what I’m doing even when I’m wearing a pencil skirt.
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