We need to provide higher quality and innovative early childhood development programs all throughout Latin America.
SHAKIRAColombia 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.
More Shakira Quotes
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If the fastest growing population in this country is Latino, that means we are the future of this country. And, we have proven we have talent. Now we need the tools to succeed.
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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 know what it’s like to feel that fear and the need of affirmation and appreciation. To build confidence in yourself is the toughest thing.
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Videos 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.
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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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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 barefoot whenever I can be.
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I love food, and I’m a chronic over-orderer at restaurants.
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I know what I’m doing even when I’m wearing a pencil skirt.
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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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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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President Obama is highly concerned with education. He’s a champion on early-childhood development strategies.
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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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My body feels like it is asking to reproduce.
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Brazil is a country I hold very dearly. I’ve got followers there who I’ve been interacting with for years, as well as fellow artists like Ivete Sangalo, and it also has huge figures like Pele.
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