My team and I have reunited two elements that coexist with difficulty: respect and affection, because when they love you they don’t respect you and when they respect you they don’t love you.
SHAKIRAVideos come definitely after the music has been created, but I have always felt, and especially today, that videos are vital in the album process. I think that we live in a very visual era, and if you make a mistake with a video, those images will accompany the song forever.
More Shakira Quotes
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Colombia is not how people think it is. We used to eat fish every Sunday at the beach. In the town where I grew up, people did not tell lies.
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I’m lucky to have family around me. Otherwise, I’ll be taking the risk of falling in love with myself.
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I feel a real sense of duty to use the voice and the platform I’ve been afforded by my fame to speak out for those whose voices don’t get a chance to be heard.
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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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At the age of eight, I discovered that I could write songs.
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A man’s car is like an extension of their ego and their manhood.
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I like to see people’s eyes when I’m singing to them.
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Gerard and I pretty much share all parenting responsibilities, although I’m definitely the disciplinarian.
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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 thank God that I’m a product of my parents. That they infected me with their intelligence and energy for life, with their thirst for knowledge and their love. I’m grateful that I know where I come from.
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I’m Colombian and nothing will change that.
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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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Both the IDB and Fundacion ALAS believe that the future of prosperity and equality that we hope for has to start today with higher investment and higher quality in Early Childhood Development programs throughout the region.
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In the full light of day, I don’t want to think about the sunset.
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In this life, to earn your place you have to fight for it.
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