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.
SHAKIRABoth 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.
More Shakira Quotes
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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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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.
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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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The truth is that I’m more afraid of marriage than of death.
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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 never made it to the school choir because the music teacher didn’t like my voice.
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I adore my dad. He’s a 78-year-old man and my inspiration.
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And I think that is tremendously empowering and is not diminishing in any way. I fell that any woman who is in control, who is in touch with her femininity and sensuality, is a woman that is empowered.
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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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The worst frustration for a singer is choosing a career in making music and then not being able to make music because you’re always giving interviews.
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I’m lucky to have family around me. Otherwise, I’ll be taking the risk of falling in love with myself.
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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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I know what I’m doing even when I’m wearing a pencil skirt.
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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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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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