I never made it to the school choir because the music teacher didn’t like my voice.
SHAKIRAI’m convinced that promoting sport is an intelligent way of educating our children.
More Shakira Quotes
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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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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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My therapist taught me why I behave in certain ways and not to feel so pressured.
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I was pretty sad. But he was probably right; I did have a voice a bit like a goat, but my dad told me to never give up and to keep going, and it’s paid off.
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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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I did not want to spend the rest of my life not being able to ride in a nice car.
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If the fastest growing population in this country is Latino, that means we are the future of this country. And, we have proven we have talent. Now we need the tools to succeed.
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I think love is something that you have to work on, and it develops over experience and time. Love is a practice.
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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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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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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 remember the first time I saw the ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’ video.
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I feel like I’m on an anthropological mission.
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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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I’m lucky to have family around me. Otherwise, I’ll be taking the risk of falling in love with myself.
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