I’m a closet nerd. I love to study history and visit museums.
SHAKIRAI started the Pies Descalzos foundation in Colombia when I was 18, and since then, I have been very involved in the crusade for education.
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 love food, and I’m a chronic over-orderer at restaurants.
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I never made it to the school choir because the music teacher didn’t like my voice.
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I consider myself a laborer, building my career brick over brick under the sun.
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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 feel comfortable in my pop shoes. They let me walk in any direction. I like to go from one extreme to the other. One day I feel that I want to do a song with reggaeton influence, I do it. The next day I feel I need to do a song with rock elements to it, I do it.
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I’m lucky to have family around me. Otherwise, I’ll be taking the risk of falling in love with myself.
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I’m convinced that promoting sport is an intelligent way of educating our children.
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We need to provide higher quality and innovative early childhood development programs all throughout Latin America.
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Everyone can know what is in my heart because I find it hard to conceal myself.
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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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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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Gerard and I pretty much share all parenting responsibilities, although I’m definitely the disciplinarian.
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I like to see people’s eyes when I’m singing to them.
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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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