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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.

Shakira

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 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 know what it’s like to feel that fear and the need of affirmation and appreciation. To build confidence in yourself is the toughest thing.
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I consider myself a laborer, building my career brick over brick under the sun.
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I adore my dad. He’s a 78-year-old man and my inspiration.
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Because of you, I’m running out of reasons to cry.
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I’m a closet nerd. I love to study history and visit museums.
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In this life, to earn your place you have to fight for it.
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My therapist taught me why I behave in certain ways and not to feel so pressured.
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It’s not easy to work with me, I recognize that. It’s not easy if those people aren’t as perfectionistic as I am.
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All through my twenties, I spent more time worrying what I didn’t have than thinking about what I did have. I wished that I was taller, had longer legs, slimmer hips, a smaller bottom, even straighter hair.
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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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My body feels like it is asking to reproduce.
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I just think that it’s very helpful to have a map of your psyche, because when you have a map, you know where to go.
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I’m Colombian and nothing will change that.
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It’s very difficult to think that you’re with someone that you know, and all of a sudden you don’t know them: it turns out that they betray you. It’s painful, but it’s best to turn the page.
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I feel like I’m on an anthropological mission.
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Gerard 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.
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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 feel like I’m not on Earth just to shake it and shake it endlessly, you know?
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Colombia is not how people think it is. We used to eat fish every Sunday at the beach. In the town where I grew up, people did not tell lies.
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The worst frustration for a singer is choosing a career in making music and then not being able to make music because you’re always giving interviews.
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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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Gerard and I pretty much share all parenting responsibilities, although I’m definitely the disciplinarian.
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I admire a person who, for the love of art, is able to take off their clothes in front of a camera. But I’m not capable, I’m too cowardly for that.
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You’re a song written by the hands of God.
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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 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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