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Life is a soccer field, don’t you think?

Shakira

I do feel that I have to use my voice for those that don’t have one. I have to do the best I can in my own work to represent my culture, represent the women of my country, of Latin America. What we stand for. What we’re made of.
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Feel One Use Voice
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.
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Dose Fame Flavor Happened Little Small Success Taste
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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Dad Paid Pretty Probably Right Voice
You can’t achieve anything in life without a small amount of sacrifice.
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Amount Archives Anything Life Sacrifice Small
I feel as passionate as when I was 13 years old and just released my first album. I feel the same amount of adrenaline in my blood, and the same amount of curiosity as well. Curiosity about why I’m different.
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Adrenaline Album Curious Feel Passionate Release Same Thirteen Year
I didn’t expect babies to need so many diapers. Nobody told me they needed to be changed so often.
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Baby Dissperar Expect May Need
I started my own Pies Descalzos/Barefoot Foundation when I was 18. We provide education to vulnerable children in Colombia and other developing countries.
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Country Eighteen Foundation Own People Person Start
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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Day Discover Every New Something
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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My brain, I believe, is the most beautiful part of my body.
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Beautiful Believe Body Brain Most Part
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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Beach Country Day Eat Every Fish People Sunday Think Use
Life is a soccer field, don’t you think?
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Field Life Soccer Think
You feel that there is an avalanche coming when you meet the right person.
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Avalanche Come Feel Meet Person Right When
Gerard is just like me, but two meters tall. We’re very alike; it’s not for nothing that we were born on the same day, it’s just that he was born 10 years later… he’s a happy guy, healthy here, in the head.
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Country Just Meter People Person Tall
President Obama is highly concerned with education. He’s a champion on early-childhood development strategies.
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Champion Childhood Concern Country Development Early Education Person President Strategies
Songwriting is such an intricate part of me as an artist and as a person; I couldn’t just let someone else do it.
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Artist Do Else Intricate Part Person Someone Songwriting Such

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