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I started my own Pies Descalzos/Barefoot Foundation when I was 18. We provide education to vulnerable children in Colombia and other developing countries.

Shakira

My songs are the reflection of how I think and how I feel in that moment. But I’m conscious of the fact that artists have a responsibility before the masses and they have to take care with their words.
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Feel How Moment Reflection Song Think
My brain, I believe, is the most beautiful part of my body.
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Beautiful Believe Body Brain Most Part
Being raised in a developing country opened my eyes to so much I cannot tolerate. In Colombia, education is sometimes considered a luxury, not a human right. And it’s not a priority in the agendas of many leaders.
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Being Country Develop Much Open People Person Raise Tolerate
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
You’re a song written by the hands of God.
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God Hand Song Written
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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Addict Being Earth Felt Fice Most Old Perform Place Stage Wonderful Year
I pefer an ugly truth to a pretty lie. If someone is telling me the truth that is when I will give my heart.
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Heart Prefer Pretty Someone Tell Truth Ugly
I feel like I’m not on Earth just to shake it and shake it endlessly, you know?
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Earth Endless Feel Just Know Shake You
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
Life is a soccer field, don’t you think?
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Field Life Soccer Think
Sensual is everything that refers to the delight of the senses. And that’s what artists do, is stimulate the senses in any possible way.
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Delight Everything Refer Sense Sensual
I am a person who has many dreams. But as soon as I accomplish one, I move on to the next. That’s my fatal, absurd nature.
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Accomplish Dream Many One Person Son
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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Carpet Even Jeans Photograph Red Tshirt Wear
I’m barefoot whenever I can be.
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Barefoot Be Whenever
Fame isolates people from reality. That happens to many artists, and I don’t want it to happen to me.
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Fame Isolate Person
I feel comfortable in my pop shoes. They let me walk in any direction. I like to go from one extreme to the other. One day I feel that I want to do a song with reggaeton influence, I do it. The next day I feel I need to do a song with rock elements to it, I do it.
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Comfortable Direction Feel Let Pop Show Walk

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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