I wish that one of my children will be like the Australian guy from the Discovery Channel show. The crocodile hunter.
SHAKIRAIf it was up to me, I would just wear jeans and t-shirts, even to red carpets, but then no one would photograph me, so that would make me very sad. So you know, I’ve gotta keep up with the rest of the female population and sometimes try a little harder.
More Shakira Quotes
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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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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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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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We need to provide higher quality and innovative early childhood development programs all throughout Latin America.
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I didn’t expect babies to need so many diapers. Nobody told me they needed to be changed so often.
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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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I want some day to be able to love with the same intensity and unselfishness that parents love their children with.
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You feel that there is an avalanche coming when you meet the right person.
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You’re a song written by the hands of God.
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I admire Madonna because she always did whatever she felt like doing. She went through some controversial periods when people rejected her, but she kept on reinventing herself.
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My man, Gerard, prefers meat over bone. That takes the pressure off. I already have a lot to worry about.
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Being 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.
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Life is a soccer field, don’t you think?
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People think I like to expose my body. But I don’t. It’s just because the dance moves require it.
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I 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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