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.
SHAKIRAIt’s not easy to work with me, I recognize that. It’s not easy if those people aren’t as perfectionistic as I am.
More Shakira Quotes
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Gerard and I pretty much share all parenting responsibilities, although I’m definitely the disciplinarian.
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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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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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Relationships have to have a give and take if they’re going to work in the long term.
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I do feel that I have to use my voice for those that don’t have one. I have to do the best I can in my own work to represent my culture, represent the women of my country, of Latin America. What we stand for. What we’re made of.
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You can’t achieve anything in life without a small amount of sacrifice.
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When you feel complete, you don’t need to get married, and you don’t think about it.
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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 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.
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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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Fame isolates people from reality. That happens to many artists, and I don’t want it to happen to me.
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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 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, if you can prove the existence of God, it can only be proven through love.
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People are not depressed in Colombia the same way people are in America.
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