Fame isolates people from reality. That happens to many artists, and I don’t want it to happen to me.
SHAKIRAMy team and I have reunited two elements that coexist with difficulty: respect and affection, because when they love you they don’t respect you and when they respect you they don’t love you.
More Shakira Quotes
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The truth is that I’m more afraid of marriage than of death.
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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 think, if you can prove the existence of God, it can only be proven through love.
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What happens is once you start to understand football, you realise that it’s not just about the physical side of the game and chasing after a ball. It’s a strategic sport which requires a lot of intelligence. It’s a very mental game.
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I feel as passionate as when I was 13 years old and just released my first album. I feel the same amount of adrenaline in my blood, and the same amount of curiosity as well. Curiosity about why I’m different.
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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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My body feels like it is asking to reproduce.
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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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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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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 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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Brazil is a country I hold very dearly. I’ve got followers there who I’ve been interacting with for years, as well as fellow artists like Ivete Sangalo, and it also has huge figures like Pele.
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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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It’s incredibly liberating to spend an hour talking to someone and not caring about what you sound like. It’s about understanding myself. Sometimes I’ll speak to my therapist for an hour a day. It’s become part of my routine.
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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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