In this life, to earn your place you have to fight for it.
SHAKIRAFame isolates people from reality. That happens to many artists, and I don’t want it to happen to me.
More Shakira Quotes
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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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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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I was unaware of the dispute in Brooklyn. I would never knowingly wear any clothes or support any company who produced clothing with alleged wage and labor violations.
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I was five years old; I got addicted to being on stage. I felt like it was the most wonderful place on Earth, performing in front of an audience, who in this case were a bunch of classmates, kids my age.
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For a while, I could only wear sweat pants because I was that intermediate size that you’re not a small, you’re not a large.
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It’s not easy to work with me, I recognize that. It’s not easy if those people aren’t as perfectionistic as I am.
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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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I think, that if you can prove the existence of God, it can only be proven through love.
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I know what I’m doing even when I’m wearing a pencil skirt.
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I do take advantage of, you know, feeling sensual and feeling sexy.
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I think love is something that you have to work on, and it develops over experience and time. Love is a practice.
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I’m more afraid of marriage than death.
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So I like the work he’s doing, and I support it, and I realise that he’s one of very few political leaders around the world that actually has early-childhood development strategise at the top of his agenda.
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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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I just think that it’s very helpful to have a map of your psyche, because when you have a map, you know where to go.
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