What happens is once you start to understand football, you realise that it’s not just about the physical side of the game and chasing after a ball. It’s a strategic sport which requires a lot of intelligence. It’s a very mental game.
SHAKIRAPeople are not depressed in Colombia the same way people are in America.
More Shakira Quotes
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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 feel like I’m on an anthropological mission.
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I do take advantage of, you know, feeling sensual and feeling sexy.
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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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Sensual is everything that refers to the delight of the senses. And that’s what artists do, is stimulate the senses in any possible way.
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I pefer an ugly truth to a pretty lie. If someone is telling me the truth that is when I will give my heart.
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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 love food, and I’m a chronic over-orderer at restaurants.
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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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My therapist taught me why I behave in certain ways and not to feel so pressured.
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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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Every day now, I discover something new. Go through phases in which I feel much more in touch with my feminine side in ways I never thought possible. I’m letting the woman inside of me speak, the desires of this woman, speak as loud as they can.
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I think, that if you can prove the existence of God, it can only be proven through love.
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People get jaded in every profession, but for some reason,
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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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My videos represent the artist in me very well, but not the kind of woman I am.
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You’re a song written by the hands of God.
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I’m convinced that promoting sport is an intelligent way of educating our children.
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Everyone can know what is in my heart because I find it hard to conceal myself.
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I’m a closet nerd. I love to study history and visit museums.
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I’m barefoot whenever I can be.
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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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My man, Gerard, prefers meat over bone. That takes the pressure off. I already have a lot to worry about.
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We need to provide higher quality and innovative early childhood development programs all throughout Latin America.
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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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President Obama is highly concerned with education. He’s a champion on early-childhood development strategies.
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