I’m a closet nerd. I love to study history and visit museums.
SHAKIRAI am an avid believer that education – and especially early childhood development – is the key to breaking the cycle of poverty.
More Shakira Quotes
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We need to provide higher quality and innovative early childhood development programs all throughout Latin America.
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A kid cannot learn with an empty stomach.
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In this life, to earn your place you have to fight for it.
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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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My man, Gerard, prefers meat over bone. That takes the pressure off. I already have a lot to worry about.
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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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I’m barefoot whenever I can be.
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My dad used to take them to the notary and register them so that nobody could steal them from me.
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We’ve built six schools in Colombia and do work in South Africa and Haiti. We teach 5,000 students.
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I feel like I’m on an anthropological mission.
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Colombia is not how people think it is. We used to eat fish every Sunday at the beach. In the town where I grew up, people did not tell lies.
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It’s incredibly liberating to spend an hour talking to someone and not caring about what you sound like. It’s about understanding myself. Sometimes I’ll speak to my therapist for an hour a day. It’s become part of my routine.
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Gerard and I pretty much share all parenting responsibilities, although I’m definitely the disciplinarian.
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My songs are the reflection of how I think and how I feel in that moment. But I’m conscious of the fact that artists have a responsibility before the masses and they have to take care with their words.
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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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