People think I like to expose my body. But I don’t. It’s just because the dance moves require it.
SHAKIRAPeople are not depressed in Colombia the same way people are in America.
More Shakira Quotes
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I know that youngsters want to find something in common with each other and feel closer to each other ideologically through bridges such as the Internet.
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In this life, to earn your place you have to fight for it.
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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 consider myself a laborer, building my career brick over brick under the sun.
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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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When you have a baby, when you feel his love, you feel so at peace with the world. You just want to share the good news and share how happy you feel.
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Being raised in a developing country opened my eyes to so much I cannot tolerate. In Colombia, education is sometimes considered a luxury, not a human right. And it’s not a priority in the agendas of many leaders.
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I was pretty sad. But he was probably right; I did have a voice a bit like a goat, but my dad told me to never give up and to keep going, and it’s paid off.
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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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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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I feel like I’m on an anthropological mission.
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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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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 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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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.
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