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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.

Shakira

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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Always Creative Excellent Grade Knew Poem Recite Story Subject Tremendous Wrote
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.
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When we were in the Dark Ages, it was a question of humanity somehow managing to forget about itself. We put God in the centre of society, and people forgot about their own nature and desires. There was a huge deal of repression.
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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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Able Admire Camera Clothes Love Person
I’m convinced that promoting sport is an intelligent way of educating our children.
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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.
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The ALAS Foundation was born as a consequence and a continuation of what we are doing with Pies Descalzos.
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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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In this life, to earn your place you have to fight for it.
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Earn Fight Life Place
I just don’t find marriage a necessary step in a couple’s life.
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From a psychoanalytical point of view, we start discovering the world through our mouths in the very first stage of our lives, when we’re just born.
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Discover Platform Point Psychoanalytical View
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 want some day to be able to love with the same intensity and unselfishness that parents love their children with.
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The truth is that I’m more afraid of marriage than of death.
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I think, if you can prove the existence of God, it can only be proven through love.
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Everyone can know what is in my heart because I find it hard to conceal myself.
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I know what I’m doing even when I’m wearing a pencil skirt.
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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 do take advantage of, you know, feeling sensual and feeling sexy.
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I like to see people’s eyes when I’m singing to them.
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My brain, I believe, is the most beautiful part of my body.
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My team and I have reunited two elements that coexist with difficulty: respect and affection, because when they love you they don’t respect you and when they respect you they don’t love you.
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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
Songwriting is such an intricate part of me as an artist and as a person; I couldn’t just let someone else do it.
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Our 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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It’s incredibly liberating to spend an hour talking to someone and not caring about what you sound like. It’s about understanding myself. Sometimes I’ll speak to my therapist for an hour a day. It’s become part of my routine.
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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 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 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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