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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

People are not depressed in Colombia the same way people are in America.
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Country Dress People Same
It’s very difficult to think that you’re with someone that you know, and all of a sudden you don’t know them: it turns out that they betray you. It’s painful, but it’s best to turn the page.
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Difficult Dudden Know Out Someone Think Turn
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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When we were in the Dark Ages, it was a question of humanity somehow managing to forget about itself. We put God in the centre of society, and people forgot about their own nature and desires. There was a huge deal of repression.
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Age Dark Humanity Itself Manage Question
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
Because of you, I’m running out of reasons to cry.
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Cry Out Reason Run
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 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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It’s not easy to work with me, I recognize that. It’s not easy if those people aren’t as perfectionistic as I am.
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Easy People Perfectionist Recognize Work
You’re a song written by the hands of God.
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God Hand Song Written
I did not want to spend the rest of my life not being able to ride in a nice car.
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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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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’m a closet nerd. I love to study history and visit museums.
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Close History Love Museum Nerd Study Visit
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 feel like I’m not on Earth just to shake it and shake it endlessly, you know?
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