Providing all Latin-American children with the education and early childhood development that they need is in the best interest of all, so it has to be a priority for all of us, not only the government and civil society, but also the business sector.
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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I just don’t find marriage a necessary step in a couple’s life.
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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 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 always knew that I was tremendously creative. I recited love poems, I wrote stories and I got excellent grades in every subject, except for maths.
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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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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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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 was pretty sad. But he was probably right; I did have a voice a bit like a goat, but my dad told me to never give up and to keep going, and it’s paid off.
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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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The worst mistake of a woman is to go to the kitchen, because then she never gets out of there.
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I want some day to be able to love with the same intensity and unselfishness that parents love their children with.
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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’ve written many love songs for Gerard. But it’s never enough. I feel that he deserves a million love songs written for him.
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I was five years old; I got addicted to being on stage. I felt like it was the most wonderful place on Earth, performing in front of an audience, who in this case were a bunch of classmates, kids my age.
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You’re a song written by the hands of God.
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