Fame isolates people from reality. That happens to many artists, and I don’t want it to happen to me.
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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When I finally did see him, he was even cuter than I imagined!
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I’m more afraid of marriage than death.
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I feel like there is a part of me that represents a minority in the U.S., a minority around the world. People who struggle, people who want to succeed with drive and ambition.
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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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Becoming a mom forced me to re-prioritize and make room for the things that are most important, while recognizing that there are things I can let go of, and the world won’t crumble around me.
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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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The worst mistake of a woman is to go to the kitchen, because then she never gets out of there.
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I don’t go out without make up. I’m a woman, you know.
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Gerard and I pretty much share all parenting responsibilities, although I’m definitely the disciplinarian.
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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.
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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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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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I will never forget that day. I just wanted to see Kurt Cobain’s face. I had a feeling he was very cute. But, I couldn’t see his face.
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A kid cannot learn with an empty stomach.
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People are not depressed in Colombia the same way people are in America.
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