I feel like I’m not on Earth just to shake it and shake it endlessly, you know?
SHAKIRAI’m a closet nerd. I love to study history and visit museums.
More Shakira Quotes
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My body feels like it is asking to reproduce.
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A kid cannot learn with an empty stomach.
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People think I like to expose my body. But I don’t. It’s just because the dance moves require it.
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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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I never made it to the school choir because the music teacher didn’t like my voice.
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You can’t achieve anything in life without a small amount of sacrifice.
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The truth is that I’m more afraid of marriage than of death.
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I was unaware of the dispute in Brooklyn. I would never knowingly wear any clothes or support any company who produced clothing with alleged wage and labor violations.
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If the fastest growing population in this country is Latino, that means we are the future of this country. And, we have proven we have talent. Now we need the tools to succeed.
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I will never forget that day. I just wanted to see Kurt Cobain’s face. I had a feeling he was very cute. But, I couldn’t see his face.
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I started the Pies Descalzos foundation in Colombia when I was 18, and since then I have been very involved in the crusade for education.
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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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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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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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Our generation faces many challenges, some of which were passed on to us by the past generations, but it’s up to us to find solutions today so that we don’t keep passing our problems on.
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