I want some day to be able to love with the same intensity and unselfishness that parents love their children with.
SHAKIRAWhen 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.
More Shakira Quotes
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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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I know what I’m doing even when I’m wearing a pencil skirt.
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Education is the only way forward in Latin America and developing countries in general.
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People are not depressed in Colombia the same way people are in America.
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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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Fame isolates people from reality. That happens to many artists, and I don’t want it to happen to me.
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I like to see people’s eyes when I’m singing to them.
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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 consider myself a laborer, building my career brick over brick under the sun.
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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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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 feel comfortable in my pop shoes. They let me walk in any direction. I like to go from one extreme to the other. One day I feel that I want to do a song with reggaeton influence, I do it. The next day I feel I need to do a song with rock elements to it, I do it.
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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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Because of you, I’m running out of reasons to cry.
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A man’s car is like an extension of their ego and their manhood.
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