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I love food, and I’m a chronic over-orderer at restaurants.

Shakira

Gerard and I pretty much share all parenting responsibilities, although I’m definitely the disciplinarian.
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Although Country Definitely Much Parent People Person Pretty Responsibility Share
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
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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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 think, that if you can prove the existence of God, it can only be proven through love.
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My therapist taught me why I behave in certain ways and not to feel so pressured.
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Behave Certain Feel Pressure Taught Therapist Way
I don’t go out without make up. I’m a woman, you know.
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Know Makeup Without Woman
When we were in the Dark Ages, it was a question of humanity somehow managing to forget about itself. We put God in the centre of society, and people forgot about their own nature and desires. There was a huge deal of repression.
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Age Dark Humanity Itself Manage Question
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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Best Childhood Children Country Development Early Education Interest Latin Need Provide
I just don’t find marriage a necessary step in a couple’s life.
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Couple Find Life Marriage Necessary Step
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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My brain, I believe, is the most beautiful part of my body.
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Beautiful Believe Body Brain Most Part
Relationships have to have a give and take if they’re going to work in the long term.
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Go Long Relationship Take Term Work
Gerard doesn’t tell me what to do. We discuss everything as a couple, as I imagine most partners do. We have a beautiful relationship and one of mutual trust.
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You can’t achieve anything in life without a small amount of sacrifice.
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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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The worst mistake of a woman is to go to the kitchen, because then she never gets out of there.
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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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My videos represent the artist in me very well, but not the kind of woman I am.
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I feel like there is a part of me that represents a minority in the U.S., a minority around the world. People who struggle, people who want to succeed with drive and ambition.
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I would sing anywhere they would invite me. That’s how I made my first pesos. I used to sing at beauty pageants, local events of every sort.
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Anything First Invite Made Person Sing
My man, Gerard, prefers meat over bone. That takes the pressure off. I already have a lot to worry about.
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Already Bone Country Man Mert Over People Person Prefer Pressure Worry
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’d love to go to that World Cup – I’m not sure in what capacity, but I’ll definitely be there. I know that nobody wants to miss it, least of all me.
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I’m Colombian and nothing will change that.
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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 think a fragrance is all about sensations and imagery, and can evoke visions, feelings and thoughts.
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