I always knew that I was tremendously creative. I recited love poems, I wrote stories and I got excellent grades in every subject, except for maths.
SHAKIRARelationships have to have a give and take if they’re going to work in the long term.
More Shakira Quotes
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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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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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President Obama is highly concerned with education. He’s a champion on early-childhood development strategies.
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You feel that there is an avalanche coming when you meet the right person.
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At the age of eight, I discovered that I could write songs.
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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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Gerard is just like me, but two meters tall. We’re very alike; it’s not for nothing that we were born on the same day, it’s just that he was born 10 years later… he’s a happy guy, healthy here, in the head.
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I’m Colombian and nothing will change that.
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Education is the only way forward in Latin America and developing countries in general.
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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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You can’t achieve anything in life without a small amount of sacrifice.
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My videos represent the artist in me very well, but not the kind of woman I am.
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Songwriting is such an intricate part of me as an artist and as a person; I couldn’t just let someone else do it.
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I feel like I’m on an anthropological mission.
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I’m convinced that promoting sport is an intelligent way of educating our children.
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