My songs are the reflection of how I think and how I feel in that moment. But I’m conscious of the fact that artists have a responsibility before the masses and they have to take care with their words.
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 feel like I’m on an anthropological mission.
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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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My dad used to take them to the notary and register them so that nobody could steal them from me.
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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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I don’t go out without make up. I’m a woman, you know.
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In this life, to earn your place you have to fight for it.
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We need to provide higher quality and innovative early childhood development programs all throughout Latin America.
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The truth is that I’m more afraid of marriage than of death.
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Gerard doesn’t tell me what to do. We discuss everything as a couple, as I imagine most partners do. We have a beautiful relationship and one of mutual trust.
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Because of you, I’m running out of reasons to cry.
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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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I consider myself a laborer, building my career brick over brick under the sun.
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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 know what I’m doing even when I’m wearing a pencil skirt.
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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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