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.
SHAKIRAI love food, and I’m a chronic over-orderer at restaurants.
More Shakira Quotes
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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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Relationships have to have a give and take if they’re going to work in the long term.
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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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I want some day to be able to love with the same intensity and unselfishness that parents love their children with.
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I came to understand that I’m never going to be the perfect mother, but I’m going to do the best I can. Same goes for everything in my life.
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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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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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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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Providing all Latin-American children with the education and early childhood development that they need is in the best interest of all, so it has to be a priority for all of us, not only the government and civil society, but also the business sector.
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I was five years old; I got addicted to being on stage. I felt like it was the most wonderful place on Earth, performing in front of an audience, who in this case were a bunch of classmates, kids my age.
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When I finally did see him, he was even cuter than I imagined!
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I tried to give my career a shot from Barranquilla, but the musicians would never show up. It was just not taken seriously.
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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.
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I believe that every single one of us, celebrity or not, has a responsibility to get involved in trying to make a difference in the world.
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It’s very difficult to think that you’re with someone that you know, and all of a sudden you don’t know them: it turns out that they betray you. It’s painful, but it’s best to turn the page.
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