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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.

Shakira

I just don’t find marriage a necessary step in a couple’s life.
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I now talk to different cultures, and I hope that I can bridge those gaps and differences between us. It’s an adventure, a dream…
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I would sing anywhere they would invite me. That’s how I made my first pesos. I used to sing at beauty pageants, local events of every sort.
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Anything First Invite Made Person Sing
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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Heart Prefer Pretty Someone Tell Truth Ugly
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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Channel Children Country Crocodile Discover Guy Hunter Like One Show Wish
I love food, and I’m a chronic over-orderer at restaurants.
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Chronic Food Love Order Over Restaurant
Becoming a mom forced me to re-prioritize and make room for the things that are most important, while recognizing that there are things I can let go of, and the world won’t crumble around me.
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My brain, I believe, is the most beautiful part of my body.
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Gerard and I pretty much share all parenting responsibilities, although I’m definitely the disciplinarian.
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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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Intermediate Large Only Pant Small Sweat Wear
I was a real mummy’s girl – still am. And as for my father, well, I have an Oedipus complex I’m still working out. I love that man!
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I adore my dad. He’s a 78-year-old man and my inspiration.
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The ALAS Foundation was born as a consequence and a continuation of what we are doing with Pies Descalzos.
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My dad used to take them to the notary and register them so that nobody could steal them from me.
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Dad Nobody Notary Register Steal Use
We’ve built six schools in Colombia and do work in South Africa and Haiti. We teach 5,000 students.
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Built Country People Person School Student Teach Work
When I finally did see him, he was even cuter than I imagined!
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I’m barefoot whenever I can be.
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When you have a baby, when you feel his love, you feel so at peace with the world. You just want to share the good news and share how happy you feel.
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Baby Feel Love Peace World
I tried to give my career a shot from Barranquilla, but the musicians would never show up. It was just not taken seriously.
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Career Country Give Musician People Person Seriously Short Show Taken Try
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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I don’t go out without make up. I’m a woman, you know.
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Know Makeup Without Woman
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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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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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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I never made it to the school choir because the music teacher didn’t like my voice.
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Life is a soccer field, don’t you think?
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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 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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