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’m convinced that promoting sport is an intelligent way of educating our children.
More Shakira Quotes
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Gerard and I pretty much share all parenting responsibilities, although I’m definitely the disciplinarian.
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Fame isolates people from reality. That happens to many artists, and I don’t want it to happen to me.
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When you feel complete, you don’t need to get married, and you don’t think about it.
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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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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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I’m a multi-faceted woman and person, like all women are – there’s no black and white. We have shades of grey in the middle. And even many more colours that other people don’t see!
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I admire a person who, for the love of art, is able to take off their clothes in front of a camera. But I’m not capable, I’m too cowardly for that.
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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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I feel like I’m not on Earth just to shake it and shake it endlessly, you know?
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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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Every day now, I discover something new. Go through phases in which I feel much more in touch with my feminine side in ways I never thought possible. I’m letting the woman inside of me speak, the desires of this woman, speak as loud as they can.
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I know that youngsters want to find something in common with each other and feel closer to each other ideologically through bridges such as the Internet.
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A kid cannot learn with an empty stomach.
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Education is the only way forward in Latin America and developing countries in general.
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Because of you, I’m running out of reasons to cry.
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