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My 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.

Shakira

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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Career Country Give Musician People Person Seriously Short Show Taken Try
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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Artist Do Else Intricate Part Person Someone Songwriting Such
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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Easy People Perfectionist Recognize Work
I love food, and I’m a chronic over-orderer at restaurants.
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Chronic Food Love Order Over Restaurant
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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Career Choose Frustration Make Music Singer Sure Worst
A good fragrance should have a certain personality that makes people identify the scent with you.
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Certain Fragrance Good Identity Make People Personality
I consider myself a laborer, building my career brick over brick under the sun.
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Brick Build Career Consider Laborer Myself Sun Under
A man’s car is like an extension of their ego and their manhood.
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Car Ego Extension Like Man Manhood
Fame isolates people from reality. That happens to many artists, and I don’t want it to happen to me.
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Fame Isolate Person
When I finally did see him, he was even cuter than I imagined!
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Culter Even Finally Imagine
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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Age Dark Humanity Itself Manage Question
I know what I’m doing even when I’m wearing a pencil skirt.
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Even Know Pencil Skirt Swing Wear
Everyone can know what is in my heart because I find it hard to conceal myself.
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Conceal Everyone Hard Know Myself Near
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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Dose Fame Flavor Happened Little Small Success Taste
Sensual is everything that refers to the delight of the senses. And that’s what artists do, is stimulate the senses in any possible way.
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Delight Everything Refer Sense Sensual
Being raised in a developing country opened my eyes to so much I cannot tolerate. In Colombia, education is sometimes considered a luxury, not a human right. And it’s not a priority in the agendas of many leaders.
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Being Country Develop Much Open People Person Raise Tolerate
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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Day Discover Every New Something
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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Country Feel Like Men Minority Part Represent World
I didn’t expect babies to need so many diapers. Nobody told me they needed to be changed so often.
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Baby Dissperar Expect May Need
I want some day to be able to love with the same intensity and unselfishness that parents love their children with.
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Able Children Day Intensity Love Parent Same Some Unselfishness Want
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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Carry Hour Incredibly Liberation Like Someone Sound Spend Talk
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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Discover Platform Point Psychoanalytical View
I do take advantage of, you know, feeling sensual and feeling sexy.
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Advantage Dfeel Know Sensual Sexy
I wanna stay an eternal girlfriend. I want to have my boyfriend’s children, but I don’t think we need a piece of paper to regulate the game, and we don’t have to go through the whole stress of a wedding and suffering to throw a good party.
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Boyfriend Children Eternal Girlfriend Need Paper Peace Regulation Stay Wanna
I’m lucky to have family around me. Otherwise, I’ll be taking the risk of falling in love with myself.
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Around Fall Familiar Love Lucky Myself Otherwise Risk Talk
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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Admire Always Celebrity Controversial Country Doing Felt People Period Some Woman
I feel a real sense of duty to use the voice and the platform I’ve been afforded by my fame to speak out for those whose voices don’t get a chance to be heard.
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My 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.

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My 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.

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