I love reading about history. Sometimes, I feel I was born in the wrong era. There was more creativity in the air when people were still discovering new worlds.
SHAKIRAI 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.
More Shakira Quotes
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Both the IDB and Fundacion ALAS believe that the future of prosperity and equality that we hope for has to start today with higher investment and higher quality in Early Childhood Development programs throughout the region.
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A kid cannot learn with an empty stomach.
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I will never forget that day. I just wanted to see Kurt Cobain’s face. I had a feeling he was very cute. But, I couldn’t see his face.
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In this life, to earn your place you have to fight for it.
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People think I like to expose my body. But I don’t. It’s just because the dance moves require it.
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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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We need to provide higher quality and innovative early childhood development programs all throughout Latin America.
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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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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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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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I never made it to the school choir because the music teacher didn’t like my voice.
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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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When you have a baby, when you feel his love, you feel so at peace with the world. You just want to share the good news and share how happy you feel.
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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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I was a real mummy’s girl – still am. And as for my father, well, I have an Oedipus complex I’m still working out. I love that man!
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