I can take the spotlight that shines on me and shift it towards those issues that are infinitely more important than my own issues.
SHAKIRAGerard and I pretty much share all parenting responsibilities, although I’m definitely the disciplinarian.
More Shakira Quotes
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I now talk to different cultures, and I hope that I can bridge those gaps and differences between us. It’s an adventure, a dream…
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You feel that there is an avalanche coming when you meet the right person.
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I tried to give my career a shot from Barranquilla, but the musicians would never show up. It was just not taken seriously.
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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 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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From a psychoanalytical point of view, we start discovering the world through our mouths in the very first stage of our lives, when we’re just born.
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I thank God that I’m a product of my parents. That they infected me with their intelligence and energy for life, with their thirst for knowledge and their love. I’m grateful that I know where I come from.
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I do feel that I have to use my voice for those that don’t have one. I have to do the best I can in my own work to represent my culture, represent the women of my country, of Latin America. What we stand for. What we’re made of.
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I feel like I’m not on Earth just to shake it and shake it endlessly, you know?
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I always had the intuition, even as a little child, that I was called for a big project.
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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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My team and I have reunited two elements that coexist with difficulty: respect and affection, because when they love you they don’t respect you and when they respect you they don’t love you.
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A man’s car is like an extension of their ego and their manhood.
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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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The truth is that I’m more afraid of marriage than of death.
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