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At the age of eight, I discovered that I could write songs.

Shakira

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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Always Creative Excellent Grade Knew Poem Recite Story Subject Tremendous Wrote
My brain, I believe, is the most beautiful part of my body.
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Beautiful Believe Body Brain Most Part
A kid cannot learn with an empty stomach.
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Empty Kid Learn Stomach
The ALAS Foundation was born as a consequence and a continuation of what we are doing with Pies Descalzos.
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Alas Born Consequence Continuation Country Do Foundation People Person
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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Anything First Invite Made Person Sing
Gerard doesn’t tell me what to do. We discuss everything as a couple, as I imagine most partners do. We have a beautiful relationship and one of mutual trust.
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Country Couple Discuss Do Everything Imagine Partner People Person
Our generation faces many challenges, some of which were passed on to us by the past generations, but it’s up to us to find solutions today so that we don’t keep passing our problems on.
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Challenge Face Generation Keep Many Paas Past Problem Solution
I feel like I’m on an anthropological mission.
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Anthropological Feel Like Mission
Every day now, I discover something new. Go through phases in which I feel much more in touch with my feminine side in ways I never thought possible. I’m letting the woman inside of me speak, the desires of this woman, speak as loud as they can.
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Day Discover Every New Something
The worst mistake of a woman is to go to the kitchen, because then she never gets out of there.
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Get Go Kitchen Mistake never Out She Woman Worst
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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Face Multi Person Woman
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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Charity Continuation Country Do Foundation Pei Start
The truth is that I’m more afraid of marriage than of death.
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Afraid Death Marriage More Truth
I feel like I’m not on Earth just to shake it and shake it endlessly, you know?
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Earth Endless Feel Just Know Shake You
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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You’re a song written by the hands of God.
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God Hand Song Written

At the age of eight, I discovered that I could write songs.

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