Life is a soccer field, don’t you think?
SHAKIRAI now talk to different cultures, and I hope that I can bridge those gaps and differences between us. It’s an adventure, a dream…
More Shakira Quotes
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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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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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So I like the work he’s doing, and I support it, and I realise that he’s one of very few political leaders around the world that actually has early-childhood development strategise at the top of his agenda.
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I feel comfortable in my pop shoes. They let me walk in any direction. I like to go from one extreme to the other. One day I feel that I want to do a song with reggaeton influence, I do it. The next day I feel I need to do a song with rock elements to it, I do it.
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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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I know what I’m doing even when I’m wearing a pencil skirt.
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When you feel complete, you don’t need to get married, and you don’t think about it.
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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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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 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, that if you can prove the existence of God, it can only be proven through love.
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My body feels like it is asking to reproduce.
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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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Success happened little by little for me. I tasted the flavor of fame in small doses: I started at 10 years old when I won a music contest; I was performing at birthday parties, company meetings.
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The ALAS Foundation was born as a consequence and a continuation of what we are doing with Pies Descalzos.
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