I consider myself a laborer, building my career brick over brick under the sun.
SHAKIRAI 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.
More Shakira Quotes
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I wish that one of my children will be like the Australian guy from the Discovery Channel show. The crocodile hunter.
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Education is the only way forward in Latin America and developing countries in general.
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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 believe that every single one of us, celebrity or not, has a responsibility to get involved in trying to make a difference in the world.
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I was unaware of the dispute in Brooklyn. I would never knowingly wear any clothes or support any company who produced clothing with alleged wage and labor violations.
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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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If it was up to me, I would just wear jeans and t-shirts, even to red carpets, but then no one would photograph me, so that would make me very sad. So you know, I’ve gotta keep up with the rest of the female population and sometimes try a little harder.
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I have no idea where I want to go musically, but I’m fine that way. I don’t need to be faithful to any concept, you know.
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I feel like I’m on an anthropological mission.
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Gerard and I pretty much share all parenting responsibilities, although I’m definitely the disciplinarian.
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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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I am a person who has many dreams. But as soon as I accomplish one, I move on to the next. That’s my fatal, absurd nature.
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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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I feel like I’m not on Earth just to shake it and shake it endlessly, you know?
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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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