I’m Colombian and nothing will change that.
SHAKIRAI always knew that I was tremendously creative. I recited love poems, I wrote stories and I got excellent grades in every subject, except for maths.
More Shakira Quotes
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I just don’t find marriage a necessary step in a couple’s life.
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I was a real mummy’s girl – still am. And as for my father, well, I have an Oedipus complex I’m still working out. I love that man!
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I did not want to spend the rest of my life not being able to ride in a nice car.
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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 remember the first time I saw the ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’ video.
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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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In this life, to earn your place you have to fight for it.
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My brain, I believe, is the most beautiful part of my body.
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You’re a song written by the hands of God.
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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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I’m convinced that promoting sport is an intelligent way of educating our children.
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I know what I’m doing even when I’m wearing a pencil skirt.
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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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We need to provide higher quality and innovative early childhood development programs all throughout Latin America.
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It’s very difficult to think that you’re with someone that you know, and all of a sudden you don’t know them: it turns out that they betray you. It’s painful, but it’s best to turn the page.
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