You can’t achieve anything in life without a small amount of sacrifice.
SHAKIRAYou can’t achieve anything in life without a small amount of sacrifice.
SHAKIRAGerard doesn’t tell me what to do. We discuss everything as a couple, as I imagine most partners do. We have a beautiful relationship and one of mutual trust.
SHAKIRAOur generation faces many challenges, some of which were passed on to us by the past generations, but it’s up to us to find solutions today so that we don’t keep passing our problems on.
SHAKIRAI started the Pies Descalzos foundation in Colombia when I was 18, and since then, I have been very involved in the crusade for education.
SHAKIRAWhat 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.
SHAKIRABeing 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.
SHAKIRAI did not want to spend the rest of my life not being able to ride in a nice car.
SHAKIRAIt’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.
SHAKIRAI don’t go out without make up. I’m a woman, you know.
SHAKIRABrazil 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.
SHAKIRAI’m barefoot whenever I can be.
SHAKIRASensual is everything that refers to the delight of the senses. And that’s what artists do, is stimulate the senses in any possible way.
SHAKIRAI 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.
SHAKIRAFrom a psychoanalytical point of view, we start discovering the world through our mouths in the very first stage of our lives, when we’re just born.
SHAKIRAI didn’t expect babies to need so many diapers. Nobody told me they needed to be changed so often.
SHAKIRAI would sing anywhere they would invite me. That’s how I made my first pesos. I used to sing at beauty pageants, local events of every sort.
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