I just want to grow old with a man who takes care of me, and I want to eventually have kids and want them to be good children to me. Just want to be treated nice and have respect.
SHAKIRAI can take the spotlight that shines on me and shift it towards those issues that are infinitely more important than my own issues.
More Shakira Quotes
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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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From a psychoanalytical point of view, we start discovering the world through our mouths in the very first stage of our lives, when we’re just born.
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I am a person who has many dreams. But as soon as I accomplish one, I move on to the next. That’s my fatal, absurd nature. Human beings are slaves to our dreams, and I am, too. Now I think I just want to share my musical proposal in its entire form.
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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 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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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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The ALAS Foundation was born as a consequence and a continuation of what we are doing with Pies Descalzos.
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I always knew that I was tremendously creative. I recited love poems, I wrote stories and I got excellent grades in every subject, except for maths.
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Every day now, I discover something new. Go through phases in which I feel much more in touch with my feminine side in ways I never thought possible. I’m letting the woman inside of me speak, the desires of this woman, speak as loud as they can.
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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 love food, and I’m a chronic over-orderer at restaurants.
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I thank God that I’m a product of my parents. That they infected me with their intelligence and energy for life, with their thirst for knowledge and their love. I’m grateful that I know where I come from.
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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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My man, Gerard, prefers meat over bone. That takes the pressure off. I already have a lot to worry about.
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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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