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. Human beings are slaves to our dreams, and I am, too. Now I think I just want to share my musical proposal in its entire form.
SHAKIRAI 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.
More Shakira Quotes
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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’m a multi-faceted woman and person, like all women are – there’s no black and white. We have shades of grey in the middle. And even many more colours that other people don’t see!
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Gerard and I pretty much share all parenting responsibilities, although I’m definitely the disciplinarian.
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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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I feel like I’m on an anthropological mission.
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I’m a closet nerd. I love to study history and visit museums.
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My body feels like it is asking to reproduce.
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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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Because of you, I’m running out of reasons to cry.
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I think a fragrance is all about sensations and imagery, and can evoke visions, feelings and thoughts.
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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 don’t go out without make up. I’m a woman, you know.
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At the age of eight, I discovered that I could write songs.
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You can’t achieve anything in life without a small amount of sacrifice.
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The truth is that I’m more afraid of marriage than of death.
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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 wish that one of my children will be like the Australian guy from the Discovery Channel show. The crocodile hunter.
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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 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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A good fragrance should have a certain personality that makes people identify the scent with you.
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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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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.
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People get jaded in every profession, but for some reason,
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People think I like to expose my body. But I don’t. It’s just because the dance moves require it.
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I didn’t expect babies to need so many diapers. Nobody told me they needed to be changed so often.
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I adore my dad. He’s a 78-year-old man and my inspiration.
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