I wish that one of my children will be like the Australian guy from the Discovery Channel show. The crocodile hunter.
SHAKIRAMy videos represent the artist in me very well, but not the kind of woman I am.
More Shakira Quotes
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Gerard is just like me, but two meters tall. We’re very alike; it’s not for nothing that we were born on the same day, it’s just that he was born 10 years later… he’s a happy guy, healthy here, in the head.
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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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A good fragrance should have a certain personality that makes people identify the scent with you.
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I’m barefoot whenever I can be.
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What I do is I remove my makeup every night, use a little bit of Vitamin C serum, and that’s it, pretty much. Of course, I use my 3D White products!
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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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It’s incredibly liberating to spend an hour talking to someone and not caring about what you sound like. It’s about understanding myself. Sometimes I’ll speak to my therapist for an hour a day. It’s become part of my routine.
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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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Relationships have to have a give and take if they’re going to work in the long term.
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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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Being raised in a developing country opened my eyes to so much I cannot tolerate. In Colombia, education is sometimes considered a luxury, not a human right. And it’s not a priority in the agendas of many leaders.
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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 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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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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My songs are the reflection of how I think and how I feel in that moment. But I’m conscious of the fact that artists have a responsibility before the masses and they have to take care with their words.
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I want some day to be able to love with the same intensity and unselfishness that parents love their children with.
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My man, Gerard, prefers meat over bone. That takes the pressure off. I already have a lot to worry about.
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We need to provide higher quality and innovative early childhood development programs all throughout Latin America.
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I’m Colombian and nothing will change that.
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I’d love to go to that World Cup – I’m not sure in what capacity, but I’ll definitely be there. I know that nobody wants to miss it, least of all me.
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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’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 know what I’m doing even when I’m wearing a pencil skirt.
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I think my dad is the only Arabic descendent who is an unsuccessful businessman.
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I admire a person who, for the love of art, is able to take off their clothes in front of a camera. But I’m not capable, I’m too cowardly for that.
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I did not want to spend the rest of my life not being able to ride in a nice car.
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