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I am an avid believer that education – and especially early childhood development – is the key to breaking the cycle of poverty.

Shakira

I feel like there is a part of me that represents a minority in the U.S., a minority around the world. People who struggle, people who want to succeed with drive and ambition.
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Country Feel Like Men Minority Part Represent World
I think, if you can prove the existence of God, it can only be proven through love.
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Existence God Love Prove Provide Think Through
Brazil is a country I hold very dearly. I’ve got followers there who I’ve been interacting with for years, as well as fellow artists like Ivete Sangalo, and it also has huge figures like Pele.
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Artist Been Country Dearly Fellow Flower Hold Interact Like Place Well Year
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 body feels like it is asking to reproduce.
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Ask Body Feel Like Reproduce
I’m lucky to have family around me. Otherwise, I’ll be taking the risk of falling in love with myself.
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Around Fall Familiar Love Lucky Myself Otherwise Risk Talk
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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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 have no idea where I want to go musically, but I’m fine that way. I don’t need to be faithful to any concept, you know.
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I thank God that I’m a product of my parents. That they infected me with their intelligence and energy for life, with their thirst for knowledge and their love. I’m grateful that I know where I come from.
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People think I like to expose my body. But I don’t. It’s just because the dance moves require it.
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I feel like I’m on an anthropological mission.
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The worst frustration for a singer is choosing a career in making music and then not being able to make music because you’re always giving interviews.
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So I like the work he’s doing, and I support it, and I realise that he’s one of very few political leaders around the world that actually has early-childhood development strategise at the top of his agenda.
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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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I tried to give my career a shot from Barranquilla, but the musicians would never show up. It was just not taken seriously.
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