I didn’t expect babies to need so many diapers. Nobody told me they needed to be changed so often.
SHAKIRAPeople are not depressed in Colombia the same way people are in America.
More Shakira Quotes
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The truth is that I’m more afraid of marriage than of death.
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I admire a person who, for the love of art, is able to take off their clothes in front of a camera. But I’m not capable, I’m too cowardly for that.
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In the full light of day, I don’t want to think about the sunset.
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I know what I’m doing even when I’m wearing a pencil skirt.
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Life is a soccer field, don’t you think?
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And I think that is tremendously empowering and is not diminishing in any way. I fell that any woman who is in control, who is in touch with her femininity and sensuality, is a woman that is empowered.
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President Obama is highly concerned with education. He’s a champion on early-childhood development strategies.
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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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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 think my dad is the only Arabic descendent who is an unsuccessful businessman.
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I admire Madonna because she always did whatever she felt like doing. She went through some controversial periods when people rejected her, but she kept on reinventing herself.
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I now talk to different cultures, and I hope that I can bridge those gaps and differences between us. It’s an adventure, a dream…
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In this life, to earn your place you have to fight for it.
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I just don’t find marriage a necessary step in a couple’s life.
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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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