The ALAS Foundation was born as a consequence and a continuation of what we are doing with Pies Descalzos.
SHAKIRAI started my own Pies Descalzos/Barefoot Foundation when I was 18. We provide education to vulnerable children in Colombia and other developing countries.
More Shakira Quotes
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I started the Pies Descalzos foundation in Colombia when I was 18, and since then, I have been very involved in the crusade for education.
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My therapist taught me why I behave in certain ways and not to feel so pressured.
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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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My videos represent the artist in me very well, but not the kind of woman I am.
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From a psychoanalytical point of view, we start discovering the world through our mouths in the very first stage of our lives, when we’re just born.
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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 like to see people’s eyes when I’m singing to them.
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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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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 wish that one of my children will be like the Australian guy from the Discovery Channel show. The crocodile hunter.
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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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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 did not want to spend the rest of my life not being able to ride in a nice car.
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A good fragrance should have a certain personality that makes people identify the scent with you.
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And I think that is tremendously empowering and is not diminishing in any way. I fell that any woman who is in control, who is in touch with her femininity and sensuality, is a woman that is empowered.
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