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.
SHAKIRAI 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!
More Shakira Quotes
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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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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 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 never made it to the school choir because the music teacher didn’t like my voice.
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I know what I’m doing even when I’m wearing a pencil skirt.
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Because of you, I’m running out of reasons to cry.
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I’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!
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My therapist taught me why I behave in certain ways and not to feel so pressured.
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I’m Colombian and nothing will change that.
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I’m barefoot whenever I can be.
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In the full light of day, I don’t want to think about the sunset.
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When I finally did see him, he was even cuter than I imagined!
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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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Becoming a mom forced me to re-prioritize and make room for the things that are most important, while recognizing that there are things I can let go of, and the world won’t crumble around me.
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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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