A man’s car is like an extension of their ego and their manhood.
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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I wish that one of my children will be like the Australian guy from the Discovery Channel show. The crocodile hunter.
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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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It’s very difficult to think that you’re with someone that you know, and all of a sudden you don’t know them: it turns out that they betray you. It’s painful, but it’s best to turn the page.
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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. Human beings are slaves to our dreams, and I am, too. Now I think I just want to share my musical proposal in its entire form.
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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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We’ve built six schools in Colombia and do work in South Africa and Haiti. We teach 5,000 students.
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I always had the intuition, even as a little child, that I was called for a big project.
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I’m a closet nerd. I love to study history and visit museums.
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I know what it’s like to feel that fear and the need of affirmation and appreciation. To build confidence in yourself is the toughest thing.
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I believe that every single one of us, celebrity or not, has a responsibility to get involved in trying to make a difference in the world.
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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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I don’t go out without make up. I’m a woman, you know.
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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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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 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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People think I like to expose my body. But I don’t. It’s just because the dance moves require it.
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Education is the only way forward in Latin America and developing countries in general.
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I love food, and I’m a chronic over-orderer at restaurants.
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My videos represent the artist in me very well, but not the kind of woman I am.
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Elixir’ means magical potion, so I wanted to depict the kind of bottle that was used in ancient times, but that looked modern and chic as well. I also wanted it to have a golden tint to evoke the memories of sands and sunsets.
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My brain, I believe, is the most beautiful part of my body.
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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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Fame isolates people from reality. That happens to many artists, and I don’t want it to happen to me.
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Relationships have to have a give and take if they’re going to work in the long term.
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President Obama is highly concerned with education. He’s a champion on early-childhood development strategies.
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I feel like I’m on an anthropological mission.
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