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.
SHAKIRAI wish that one of my children will be like the Australian guy from the Discovery Channel show. The crocodile hunter.
More Shakira Quotes
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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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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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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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I now talk to different cultures, and I hope that I can bridge those gaps and differences between us. It’s an adventure, a dream…
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The ALAS Foundation was born as a consequence and a continuation of what we are doing with Pies Descalzos.
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The truth is that I’m more afraid of marriage than of death.
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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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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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I do feel that I have to use my voice for those that don’t have one. I have to do the best I can in my own work to represent my culture, represent the women of my country, of Latin America. What we stand for. What we’re made of.
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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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I never made it to the school choir because the music teacher didn’t like my voice.
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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 consider myself a laborer, building my career brick over brick under the sun.
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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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