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.
SHAKIRAI’m a multi-faceted woman and person, like all women are – there’s no black and white. We have shades of grey in the middle. And even many more colours that other people don’t see!
More Shakira Quotes
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I admire a person who, for the love of art, is able to take off their clothes in front of a camera. But I’m not capable, I’m too cowardly for that.
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I think love is something that you have to work on, and it develops over experience and time. Love is a practice.
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A kid cannot learn with an empty stomach.
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I always had the intuition, even as a little child, that I was called for a big project.
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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 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.
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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 was a real mummy’s girl – still am. And as for my father, well, I have an Oedipus complex I’m still working out. I love that man!
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I feel like I’m on an anthropological mission.
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I just want to grow old with a man who takes care of me, and I want to eventually have kids and want them to be good children to me. Just want to be treated nice and have respect.
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And I think that is tremendously empowering and is not diminishing in any way. I fell that any woman who is in control, who is in touch with her femininity and sensuality, is a woman that is empowered.
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My body feels like it is asking to reproduce.
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I don’t go out without make up. I’m a woman, you know.
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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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I adore my dad. He’s a 78-year-old man and my inspiration.
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