I admire Madonna because she always did whatever she felt like doing. She went through some controversial periods when people rejected her, but she kept on reinventing herself.
SHAKIRAI started the Pies Descalzos foundation in Colombia when I was 18, and since then I have been very involved in the crusade for education.
More Shakira Quotes
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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.
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I feel as passionate as when I was 13 years old and just released my first album. I feel the same amount of adrenaline in my blood, and the same amount of curiosity as well. Curiosity about why I’m different.
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I came to understand that I’m never going to be the perfect mother, but I’m going to do the best I can. Same goes for everything in my life.
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When I finally did see him, he was even cuter than I imagined!
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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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I feel like I’m not on Earth just to shake it and shake it endlessly, you know?
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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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If it was up to me, I would just wear jeans and t-shirts, even to red carpets, but then no one would photograph me, so that would make me very sad. So you know, I’ve gotta keep up with the rest of the female population and sometimes try a little harder.
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And I think that is tremendously empowering and is not diminishing in any way. I fell that any woman who is in control, who is in touch with her femininity and sensuality, is a woman that is empowered.
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I can take the spotlight that shines on me and shift it towards those issues that are infinitely more important than my own issues.
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I feel a real sense of duty to use the voice and the platform I’ve been afforded by my fame to speak out for those whose voices don’t get a chance to be heard.
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People get jaded in every profession, but for some reason,
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Brazil is a country I hold very dearly. I’ve got followers there who I’ve been interacting with for years, as well as fellow artists like Ivete Sangalo, and it also has huge figures like Pele.
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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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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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