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It’s not easy to work with me, I recognize that. It’s not easy if those people aren’t as perfectionistic as I am.

Shakira

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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President Obama is highly concerned with education. He’s a champion on early-childhood development strategies.
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The truth is that I’m more afraid of marriage than of death.
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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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I did not want to spend the rest of my life not being able to ride in a nice car.
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I have no idea where I want to go musically, but I’m fine that way. I don’t need to be faithful to any concept, you know.
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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 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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People get jaded in every profession, but for some reason,
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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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We need to provide higher quality and innovative early childhood development programs all throughout Latin America.
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Both the IDB and Fundacion ALAS believe that the future of prosperity and equality that we hope for has to start today with higher investment and higher quality in Early Childhood Development programs throughout the region.
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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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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 always had the intuition, even as a little child, that I was called for a big project.
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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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It’s not easy to work with me, I recognize that. It’s not easy if those people aren’t as perfectionistic as I am.

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