Gerard and I pretty much share all parenting responsibilities, although I’m definitely the disciplinarian.
SHAKIRAGerard 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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My brain, I believe, is the most beautiful part of my body.
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The worst frustration for a singer is choosing a career in making music and then not being able to make music because you’re always giving interviews.
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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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I’m convinced that promoting sport is an intelligent way of educating our children.
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People are not depressed in Colombia the same way people are in America.
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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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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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Colombia is not how people think it is. We used to eat fish every Sunday at the beach. In the town where I grew up, people did not tell lies.
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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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We need to provide higher quality and innovative early childhood development programs all throughout Latin America.
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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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The worst mistake of a woman is to go to the kitchen, because then she never gets out of there.
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All through my twenties, I spent more time worrying what I didn’t have than thinking about what I did have. I wished that I was taller, had longer legs, slimmer hips, a smaller bottom, even straighter hair.
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I pefer an ugly truth to a pretty lie. If someone is telling me the truth that is when I will give my heart.
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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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