People think I like to expose my body. But I don’t. It’s just because the dance moves require it.
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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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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I adore my dad. He’s a 78-year-old man and my inspiration.
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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 wish that one of my children will be like the Australian guy from the Discovery Channel show. The crocodile hunter.
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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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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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Videos come definitely after the music has been created, but I have always felt, and especially today, that videos are vital in the album process. I think that we live in a very visual era, and if you make a mistake with a video, those images will accompany the song forever.
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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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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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All through my twenties, I spent more time worrying what I didn’t have than thinking about what I did have. I wished that I was taller, had longer legs, slimmer hips, a smaller bottom, even straighter hair.
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I believe that every single one of us, celebrity or not, has a responsibility to get involved in trying to make a difference in the world.
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At the age of eight, I discovered that I could write songs.
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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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I know what I’m doing even when I’m wearing a pencil skirt.
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When I finally did see him, he was even cuter than I imagined!
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