The ALAS Foundation was born as a consequence and a continuation of what we are doing with Pies Descalzos.
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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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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I just don’t find marriage a necessary step in a couple’s life.
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I was five years old; I got addicted to being on stage. I felt like it was the most wonderful place on Earth, performing in front of an audience, who in this case were a bunch of classmates, kids my age.
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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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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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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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President Obama is highly concerned with education. He’s a champion on early-childhood development strategies.
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I feel like I’m on an anthropological mission.
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I love food, and I’m a chronic over-orderer at restaurants.
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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’ve shaken hands with every radio station, from Honduras to Ryan Seacrest’s.
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I like to see people’s eyes when I’m singing to them.
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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 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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We’ve built six schools in Colombia and do work in South Africa and Haiti. We teach 5,000 students.
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