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.
SHAKIRAI love reading about history. Sometimes, I feel I was born in the wrong era. There was more creativity in the air when people were still discovering new worlds.
More Shakira Quotes
-
-
Being raised in a developing country opened my eyes to so much I cannot tolerate. In Colombia, education is sometimes considered a luxury, not a human right. And it’s not a priority in the agendas of many leaders.
SHAKIRA -
I know that youngsters want to find something in common with each other and feel closer to each other ideologically through bridges such as the Internet.
SHAKIRA -
Fame isolates people from reality. That happens to many artists, and I don’t want it to happen to me.
SHAKIRA -
If it was up to me, I would just wear jeans and t-shirts, even to red carpets, but then no one would photograph me, so that would make me very sad. So you know, I’ve gotta keep up with the rest of the female population and sometimes try a little harder.
SHAKIRA -
I just don’t find marriage a necessary step in a couple’s life.
SHAKIRA -
I was a real mummy’s girl – still am. And as for my father, well, I have an Oedipus complex I’m still working out. I love that man!
SHAKIRA -
I feel as passionate as when I was 13 years old and just released my first album. I feel the same amount of adrenaline in my blood, and the same amount of curiosity as well. Curiosity about why I’m different.
SHAKIRA -
My brain, I believe, is the most beautiful part of my body.
SHAKIRA -
I’ve shaken hands with every radio station, from Honduras to Ryan Seacrest’s.
SHAKIRA -
Songwriting is such an intricate part of me as an artist and as a person; I couldn’t just let someone else do it.
SHAKIRA -
We need to provide higher quality and innovative early childhood development programs all throughout Latin America.
SHAKIRA -
I think, that if you can prove the existence of God, it can only be proven through love.
SHAKIRA -
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.
SHAKIRA -
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 pefer an ugly truth to a pretty lie. If someone is telling me the truth that is when I will give my heart.
SHAKIRA