Brazil is a country I hold very dearly. I’ve got followers there who I’ve been interacting with for years, as well as fellow artists like Ivete Sangalo, and it also has huge figures like Pele.
SHAKIRAOur generation faces many challenges, some of which were passed on to us by the past generations, but it’s up to us to find solutions today so that we don’t keep passing our problems on.
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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 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 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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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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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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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.
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I wanna stay an eternal girlfriend. I want to have my boyfriend’s children, but I don’t think we need a piece of paper to regulate the game, and we don’t have to go through the whole stress of a wedding and suffering to throw a good party.
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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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Both the IDB and Fundacion ALAS believe that the future of prosperity and equality that we hope for has to start today with higher investment and higher quality in Early Childhood Development programs throughout the region.
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We’ve built six schools in Colombia and do work in South Africa and Haiti. We teach 5,000 students.
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I’m barefoot whenever I can be.
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I believe that every single one of us, celebrity or not, has a responsibility to get involved in trying to make a difference in the world.
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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.
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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 like to see people’s eyes when I’m singing to them.
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