I’m lucky to have family around me. Otherwise, I’ll be taking the risk of falling in love with myself.
SHAKIRAI’m convinced that promoting sport is an intelligent way of educating our children.
More Shakira Quotes
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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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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 love is something that you have to work on, and it develops over experience and time. Love is a practice.
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I was a real mummy’s girl – still am. And as for my father, well, I have an Oedipus complex I’m still working out. I love that man!
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I thank God that I’m a product of my parents. That they infected me with their intelligence and energy for life, with their thirst for knowledge and their love. I’m grateful that I know where I come from.
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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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Both the IDB and Fundacion ALAS believe that the future of prosperity and equality that we hope for has to start today with higher investment and higher quality in Early Childhood Development programs throughout the region.
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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’ve written many love songs for Gerard. But it’s never enough. I feel that he deserves a million love songs written for him.
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I didn’t expect babies to need so many diapers. Nobody told me they needed to be changed so often.
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The truth is that I’m more afraid of marriage than of death.
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Videos come definitely after the music has been created, but I have always felt, and especially today, that videos are vital in the album process. I think that we live in a very visual era, and if you make a mistake with a video, those images will accompany the song forever.
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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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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 did not want to spend the rest of my life not being able to ride in a nice car.
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