You can’t achieve anything in life without a small amount of sacrifice.
SHAKIRAI want some day to be able to love with the same intensity and unselfishness that parents love their children with.
More Shakira Quotes
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I was five years old; I got addicted to being on stage. I felt like it was the most wonderful place on Earth, performing in front of an audience, who in this case were a bunch of classmates, kids my age.
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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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For a while, I could only wear sweat pants because I was that intermediate size that you’re not a small, you’re not a large.
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I feel as passionate as when I was 13 years old and just released my first album. I feel the same amount of adrenaline in my blood, and the same amount of curiosity as well. Curiosity about why I’m different.
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I pefer an ugly truth to a pretty lie. If someone is telling me the truth that is when I will give my heart.
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I don’t go out without make up. I’m a woman, you know.
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I came to understand that I’m never going to be the perfect mother, but I’m going to do the best I can. Same goes for everything in my life.
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I love reading about history. Sometimes, I feel I was born in the wrong era. There was more creativity in the air when people were still discovering new worlds.
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Fame isolates people from reality. That happens to many artists, and I don’t want it to happen to me.
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Videos come definitely after the music has been created, but I have always felt, and especially today, that videos are vital in the album process. I think that we live in a very visual era, and if you make a mistake with a video, those images will accompany the song forever.
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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’m convinced that promoting sport is an intelligent way of educating our children.
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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.
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I think, if you can prove the existence of God, it can only be proven through love.
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Providing all Latin-American children with the education and early childhood development that they need is in the best interest of all, so it has to be a priority for all of us, not only the government and civil society, but also the business sector.
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