Shakira Quotes
- All Quotes
-
I now talk to different cultures, and I hope that I can bridge those gaps and differences between us. It's an adventure, a dream... I feel like I'm on an anthropological mission.
-
What happens is once you start to understand football, you realise that it's not just about the physical side of the game and chasing after a ball. It's a strategic sport which requires a lot of intelligence. It's a very mental game.
-
Education is the only way forward in Latin America and developing countries in general.
-
If the fastest growing population in this country is Latino, that means we are the future of this country. And, we have proven we have talent. Now we need the tools to succeed.
-
We've built six schools in Colombia and do work in South Africa and Haiti. We teach 5,000 students.
-
Life is a soccer field, don't you think?
-
I don't go out without make up. I'm a woman, you know.
-
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.
-
My dad is a writer, and to see him always in front of a typewriter gave me the inspiration to write. He was my idol, my hero. I wanted to be just like him.
-
The truth is that I'm more afraid of marriage than of death.
-
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.
-
Relationships have to have a give and take if they're going to work in the long term.
-
I've shaken hands with every radio station, from Honduras to Ryan Seacrest's.
-
I think love is something that you have to work on, and it develops over experience and time. Love is a practice.
-
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.
-
All through my twenties, I spent more time worrying what I didn't have than thinking about what I did have. I wished that I was taller, had longer legs, slimmer hips, a smaller bottom, even straighter hair.
-
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!
-
You're a song written by the hands of God.
-
Writing in English was a major challenge. I didn't want other songwriters to write for me. I wanted to preserve the spirit of my songs in Spanish. I am the same Shakira in English as I am in Spanish.
-
A kid cannot learn with an empty stomach.
-
The music industry is dominated by guys. I work with men 98 percent of the time - producers, arrangers, musicians, engineers.
-
People think I like to expose my body. But I don't. It's just because the dance moves require it.
-
It's not easy to work with me, I recognize that. It's not easy if those people aren't as perfectionistic as I am.
-
Everyone can know what is in my heart because I find it hard to conceal myself.