President Obama is highly concerned with education. He’s a champion on early-childhood development strategies.
SHAKIRAI tried to give my career a shot from Barranquilla, but the musicians would never show up. It was just not taken seriously.
More Shakira Quotes
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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 feel a real sense of duty to use the voice and the platform I’ve been afforded by my fame to speak out for those whose voices don’t get a chance to be heard.
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I just want to grow old with a man who takes care of me, and I want to eventually have kids and want them to be good children to me. Just want to be treated nice and have respect.
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I would sing anywhere they would invite me. That’s how I made my first pesos. I used to sing at beauty pageants, local events of every sort.
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I’ve shaken hands with every radio station, from Honduras to Ryan Seacrest’s.
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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.
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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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When you feel complete, you don’t need to get married, and you don’t think about 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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I know that youngsters want to find something in common with each other and feel closer to each other ideologically through bridges such as the Internet.
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A man’s car is like an extension of their ego and their manhood.
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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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Because of you, I’m running out of reasons to cry.
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Becoming a mom forced me to re-prioritize and make room for the things that are most important, while recognizing that there are things I can let go of, and the world won’t crumble around me.
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I’m barefoot whenever I can be.
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