I am an avid believer that education – and especially early childhood development – is the key to breaking the cycle of poverty.
SHAKIRALife is a soccer field, don’t you think?
More Shakira Quotes
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For 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.
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Being raised in a developing country opened my eyes to so much I cannot tolerate. In Colombia, education is sometimes considered a luxury, not a human right. And it’s not a priority in the agendas of many leaders.
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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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When you feel complete, you don’t need to get married, and you don’t think about it.
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Relationships have to have a give and take if they’re going to work in the long term.
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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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In this life, to earn your place you have to fight for it.
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Every day now, I discover something new. Go through phases in which I feel much more in touch with my feminine side in ways I never thought possible. I’m letting the woman inside of me speak, the desires of this woman, speak as loud as they can.
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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 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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We’ve built six schools in Colombia and do work in South Africa and Haiti. We teach 5,000 students.
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I’m convinced that promoting sport is an intelligent way of educating our children.
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I think my dad is the only Arabic descendent who is an unsuccessful businessman.
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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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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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