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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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Providing all Latin-American children with the education and early childhood development that they need is in the best interest of all, so it has to be a priority for all of us, not only the government and civil society, but also the business sector.
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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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I’m convinced that promoting sport is an intelligent way of educating our children.
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You can’t achieve anything in life without a small amount of sacrifice.
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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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When we were in the Dark Ages, it was a question of humanity somehow managing to forget about itself. We put God in the centre of society, and people forgot about their own nature and desires. There was a huge deal of repression.
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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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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’ve shaken hands with every radio station, from Honduras to Ryan Seacrest’s.
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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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Songwriting is such an intricate part of me as an artist and as a person; I couldn’t just let someone else do it.
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I adore my dad. He’s a 78-year-old man and my inspiration.
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I love food, and I’m a chronic over-orderer at restaurants.
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In this life, to earn your place you have to fight for it.
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Success happened little by little for me. I tasted the flavor of fame in small doses: I started at 10 years old when I won a music contest; I was performing at birthday parties, company meetings.
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So I like the work he’s doing, and I support it, and I realise that he’s one of very few political leaders around the world that actually has early-childhood development strategise at the top of his agenda.
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