Colombia is not how people think it is. We used to eat fish every Sunday at the beach. In the town where I grew up, people did not tell lies.
SHAKIRAMy therapist taught me why I behave in certain ways and not to feel so pressured.
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The worst mistake of a woman is to go to the kitchen, because then she never gets out of there.
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I remember the first time I saw the ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’ video.
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I just think that it’s very helpful to have a map of your psyche, because when you have a map, you know where to go.
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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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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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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 know what I’m doing even when I’m wearing a pencil skirt.
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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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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 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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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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Fame isolates people from reality. That happens to many artists, and I don’t want it to happen to me.
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I adore my dad. He’s a 78-year-old man and my inspiration.
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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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For a while, I could only wear sweat pants because I was that intermediate size that you’re not a small, you’re not a large.
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