Shakira Quotes
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I did not want to spend the rest of my life not being able to ride in a nice car.
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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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It doesn't bother me to talk about my private life, it doesn't bother me to talk about anything. My life is like a glass of water, transparent.
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I always believed that women have rights and that there are some women that are intelligent enough to claim those rights. There are some others that are stupid enough not to.
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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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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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Writing songs has a therapeutic effect, and it either kills off love or wins the heart of the lover.
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I do feel that I have to use my voice for those that don't have one. I have to do the best I can in my own work to represent my culture, represent the women of my country, of Latin America. What we stand for. What we're made of.
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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.
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It's very difficult to think that you're with someone that you know, and all of a sudden you don't know them: it turns out that they betray you. It's painful, but it's best to turn the page.
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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'm barefoot whenever I can be.
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With pregnancy and nursing, the hormones mean your skin tends to be more sensitive to the light, so it's very important to use sun block every day.
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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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I think my dad is the only Arabic descendent who is an unsuccessful businessman.
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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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Because of you, I'm running out of reasons to cry.
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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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President Obama is highly concerned with education. He's a champion on early-childhood development strategies. So I like the work he's doing, and I support it, and I realise that he's one of very few political leaders around the world that actually has early-childhood development strategise at the top of his agenda.
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Every day now, I discover something new. Go through phases in which I feel much more in touch with my feminine side in ways I never thought possible. I'm letting the woman inside of me speak, the desires of this woman, speak as loud as they can.
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Education is the only way forward in Latin America and developing countries in general.
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I just don't find marriage a necessary step in a couple's life.
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Gerard doesn't tell me what to do. We discuss everything as a couple, as I imagine most partners do. We have a beautiful relationship and one of mutual trust.
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We've built six schools in Colombia and do work in South Africa and Haiti. We teach 5,000 students.