The ALAS Foundation was born as a consequence and a continuation of what we are doing with Pies Descalzos.
SHAKIRAFor 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.
More Shakira Quotes
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I do take advantage of, you know, feeling sensual and feeling sexy.
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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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I’m Colombian and nothing will change that.
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Fame isolates people from reality. That happens to many artists, and I don’t want it to happen to me.
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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.
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In the full light of day, I don’t want to think about the sunset.
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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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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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I’d love to go to that World Cup – I’m not sure in what capacity, but I’ll definitely be there. I know that nobody wants to miss it, least of all me.
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From a psychoanalytical point of view, we start discovering the world through our mouths in the very first stage of our lives, when we’re just born.
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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 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.
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I wish that one of my children will be like the Australian guy from the Discovery Channel show. The crocodile hunter.
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If 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.
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I can take the spotlight that shines on me and shift it towards those issues that are infinitely more important than my own issues.
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