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I consider myself a laborer, building my career brick over brick under the sun.

Shakira

We’ve built six schools in Colombia and do work in South Africa and Haiti. We teach 5,000 students.
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Built Country People Person School Student Teach Work
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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Always Create Definitely Especially Felt Music Today Video Vital
Fame isolates people from reality. That happens to many artists, and I don’t want it to happen to me.
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Fame Isolate Person
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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Country Deserve Enough Love Many Million People Songs Write Written
I started my own Pies Descalzos/Barefoot Foundation when I was 18. We provide education to vulnerable children in Colombia and other developing countries.
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Country Eighteen Foundation Own People Person Start
I feel like I’m on an anthropological mission.
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Anthropological Feel Like Mission
In the full light of day, I don’t want to think about the sunset.
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Day Full Light Sunset Think
I’m barefoot whenever I can be.
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Barefoot Be Whenever
Elixir’ means magical potion, so I wanted to depict the kind of bottle that was used in ancient times, but that looked modern and chic as well. I also wanted it to have a golden tint to evoke the memories of sands and sunsets.
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Ancient Bottle Depict Elixir Kind Look Magicial Mean Modern Potion Times Use Want
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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All More Prefer Spend Think Thought Time Twenties What Worry
Success happened little by little for me. I tasted the flavor of fame in small doses: I started at 10 years old when I won a music contest; I was performing at birthday parties, company meetings.
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Dose Fame Flavor Happened Little Small Success Taste
I feel like there is a part of me that represents a minority in the U.S., a minority around the world. People who struggle, people who want to succeed with drive and ambition.
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Country Feel Like Men Minority Part Represent World
My dad used to take them to the notary and register them so that nobody could steal them from me.
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Dad Nobody Notary Register Steal Use
A kid cannot learn with an empty stomach.
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Empty Kid Learn Stomach
My man, Gerard, prefers meat over bone. That takes the pressure off. I already have a lot to worry about.
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Already Bone Country Man Mert Over People Person Prefer Pressure Worry
I tried to give my career a shot from Barranquilla, but the musicians would never show up. It was just not taken seriously.
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Career Country Give Musician People Person Seriously Short Show Taken Try

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