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.
SHAKIRAGerard doesn’t tell me what to do. We discuss everything as a couple, as I imagine most partners do. We have a beautiful relationship and one of mutual trust.
More Shakira Quotes
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Brazil is a country I hold very dearly. I’ve got followers there who I’ve been interacting with for years, as well as fellow artists like Ivete Sangalo, and it also has huge figures like Pele.
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President Obama is highly concerned with education. He’s a champion on early-childhood development strategies.
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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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Videos come definitely after the music has been created, but I have always felt, and especially today, that videos are vital in the album process. I think that we live in a very visual era, and if you make a mistake with a video, those images will accompany the song forever.
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I just don’t find marriage a necessary step in a couple’s life.
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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 think my dad is the only Arabic descendent who is an unsuccessful businessman.
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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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I’m convinced that promoting sport is an intelligent way of educating our children.
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People get jaded in every profession, but for some reason,
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I pefer an ugly truth to a pretty lie. If someone is telling me the truth that is when I will give my heart.
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I think love is something that you have to work on, and it develops over experience and time. Love is a practice.
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I’m Colombian and nothing will change that.
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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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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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