My team and I have reunited two elements that coexist with difficulty: respect and affection, because when they love you they don’t respect you and when they respect you they don’t love you.
SHAKIRAI think love is something that you have to work on, and it develops over experience and time. Love is a practice.
More Shakira Quotes
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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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I would sing anywhere they would invite me. That’s how I made my first pesos. I used to sing at beauty pageants, local events of every sort.
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My body feels like it is asking to reproduce.
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I feel like I’m on an anthropological mission.
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Everyone can know what is in my heart because I find it hard to conceal myself.
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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 like to see people’s eyes when I’m singing to them.
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We need to provide higher quality and innovative early childhood development programs all throughout Latin America.
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A man’s car is like an extension of their ego and their manhood.
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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.
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The worst frustration for a singer is choosing a career in making music and then not being able to make music because you’re always giving interviews.
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I just don’t find marriage a necessary step in a couple’s life.
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I’m Colombian and nothing will change that.
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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 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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