Quotes About Shakira

#1. I love Shakira - she is such a beautiful person. She does so many good things for the world on top of making good music. And she is an awesome mom. When you are Latina, it is all about family, and to see that she prioritizes family and her career at the same time is really nice.

Becky G

#2. 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.

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#3. Although I fancy Britney, I think Shakira is hot too. Maybe I could let them fight over me. I'm a young lad and I've got to keep my options open.

Gareth Gates

#4. Freddy Demann (Shakira's Manager) is a man that knows the world of music. And I know that I am in good hands.

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#5. Um, tequila please?" I asked questioningly, enunciating each word as best as my drunken mouth would allow. So really, it came out as "Uff, shakira pea?

Tara Sivec

#6. People like Shakira shouldnt have record contracts. She cant even speak English.

Avril Lavigne

#7. I've been singing Shakira songs in front of my bathroom mirror into my hairbrush forever. It's like a daily routine.

Taylor Swift

#8. Shakira is a new friend, but I love her dearly already. She's so sweet and adorable and hilarious.

Adam Levine

#9. I'm itching to see Usher & Shakira work their magic. And of course, Blake is so amazing! It was tough, but I went on my gut which was Adam.

Judith Hill

#10. Shakira's music isn't my cup of tea, but the way she moves her hips reminds me of the feeling you get when you climb the gym pole.

Brandon Boyd

#11. I tell him [husband Emilio] you are lucky I am not a jealous woman, because look at the women he's worked with: Shakira, Jennifer Lopez, Thalia, Madonna. These very sexy women. I trust him.

Gloria Estefan

#12. I've been in every disco in the world. I saw a picture of my wife Shakira and I dancing in Studio 54; I didn't even know someone had taken that picture.

Michael Caine

#13. Shakira is a talented singer, and I am a huge fan of her.

Bipasha Basu

#14. Have a go-to pump up song. Mine is Shakira's 'Waka Waka' from the 2010 World Cup (don't judge). Play it only when you're ready to turn into your most badass self.

Kathryn Minshew

#15. 'She Wolf,' by Shakira, makes you want to let go of your inhibitions and jam.

Ziggy Marley

#16. I'm just a consequence of the great musical momentum and the great changes we are going through in the world.

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#17. In 2006 I was asked to sing at the World Cup in Germany, and in 2010 I was fortunate enough to be asked again.

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#18. I adore my dad. He's a 78-year-old man and my inspiration.

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#19. I love reading about history. Sometimes, I feel I was born in the wrong era. There was more creativity in the air when people were still discovering new worlds.

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#20. Nationalism is cured by traveling.

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#21. Live your life to the fullest.

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#22. Fame isolates people from reality. That happens to many artists, and I don't want it to happen to me.

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#23. I have no idea where I want to go musically, but I'm fine that way. I don't need to be faithful to any concept, you know.

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#24. When you have a baby, when you feel his love, you feel so at peace with the world. You just want to share the good news and share how happy you feel.

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#25. I've shaken hands with every radio station, from Honduras to Ryan Seacrest's.

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#26. I'm a firm believer that education is the most efficient tool we have to make people aware and make our children aware, and to protect them from the scourge of the century, which is AIDS

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#27. My videos represent the artist in me very well, but not the kind of woman I am.

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#28. I'm a closet nerd. I love to study history and visit museums.

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#29. We need to provide higher quality and innovative early childhood development programs all throughout Latin America.

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#30. 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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#31. The worst mistake of a woman is to go to the kitchen, because then she never gets out of there.

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#32. 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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#33. I live for freedom, and freedom is a lie.

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#34. I did not want to spend the rest of my life not being able to ride in a nice car.

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#35. I never went to the gym before in my life. But, at 32, I notice that my body responds negatively to bad food, so I must make double the effort.

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#36. 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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#37. I'm double-jointed. I can put my legs over my head, which freaks people out.

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#38. I know what it's like to feel that fear and the need of affirmation and appreciation. To build confidence in yourself is the toughest thing.

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#39. 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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#40. I like to see people's eyes when I'm singing to them.

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#41. 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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#42. Sexy is good as long as it's not the main recipe. It's an ingredient. I would not appear in a leotard in a video if I [did] not have other dimensions.

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#43. I love food, and I'm a chronic over-orderer at restaurants.

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#44. There is no other investment that has the kind of social multiplier effect that early education has. It is an incredible thing to nurture and watch grow and spread.

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#45. The thing is, my dad's always been more of a bookworm; he was interested in more intellectual pursuits, but nobody can escape the passion that football stirs.

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#46. The music teacher thought I sang like a goat. It was kind of devastating. A few months after that, I participated in a music contest and won. I took my little trophy to school and rubbed it in his nose. I said to him, "What do you say now?"

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#47. Education is the only way forward in Latin America and developing countries in general.

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#48. I just want to grow old with a man who takes care of me, and I want to eventually have kids and want them to be good children to me. Just want to be treated nice and have respect.

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#49. I think that we see war as a virtual thing and we even get to believe that bombs fall on top of cardboard cutouts and stuff like that. They don't. They kill real people, real children, real mothers and millions of innocent people.

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#50. I think love is something that you have to work on, and it develops over experience and time. Love is a practice.

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#51. Walking gets too boring when you learn how to fly.

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#52. Success happened little by little for me. I tasted the flavor of fame in small doses: I started at 10 years old when I won a music contest; I was performing at birthday parties, company meetings.

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#53. The music industry is dominated by guys. I work with men 98 percent of the time - producers, arrangers, musicians, engineers.

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#54. I like fragrances that have some sweetness to them. All three I have developed have that as a common element.

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#55. Scars remind me of just how far that I've come.

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#56. Everyone can know what is in my heart because I find it hard to conceal myself.

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#57. 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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#58. 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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#59. I can take the spotlight that shines on me and shift it towards those issues that are infinitely more important than my own issues.

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#60. 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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#61. For a while, I could only wear sweat pants because I was that intermediate size that you're not a small, you're not a large.

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#62. Guys don't like women telling them what to do. It reminds them of their mothers, or something like that.

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#63. I'm a perfectionist in recovery. I'm trying to deal with that monster inside of me that wants to do everything right. Or better than right.

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#64. The relationship I have with my Hispanic fans is very deep and intricate.

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#65. I'm convinced that promoting sport is an intelligent way of educating our children.

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#66. I'm quite proud of my rear ... I don't obsess over my flaws, because I see my body as a whole. Besides, I think men appreciate confidence more than perfection.

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#67. 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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#68. Half of the world lives on [about] $2 a day. If there is a hungry kid in the world, we shouldn't consider ourselves more evolved than homo habilis.

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#69. I feel like I'm not on Earth just to shake it and shake it endlessly, you know?

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#70. 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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#71. 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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#72. 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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#73. I just don't find marriage a necessary step in a couple's life.

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#74. At the age of eight, I discovered that I could write songs. My dad used to take them to the notary and register them so that nobody could steal them from me.

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#75. I was a real mummy's girl - still am. And as for my father, well, I have an Oedipus complex I'm still working out. I love that man!

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#76. I apply the same amount of dedication to being a mom as I do to my music.

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#77. I can't wait for the time when curves and a little belly fat will be sexy again!

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#78. 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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#79. I'm like a mosquito, I love humidity. I don't sweat.

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#80. Colombia is not how people think it is. We used to eat fish every Sunday at the beach. In the town where I grew up, people did not tell lies.

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#81. I think, if you can prove the existence of God, it can only be proven through love.

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#82. I have so many people out there that celebrate with me when they know that I'm happy. And they hate it when they know that I'm suffering because someone has hurt me.

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#83. Our leaders are lacking love, and love is lacking leaders.

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#84. In their 20s, women try to be somebody they're not and try to turn themselves into something different. Now I'm in my 30s; I'm very happy with who I am.

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#85. 'Elixir' means magical potion, so I wanted to depict the kind of bottle that was used in ancient times, but that looked modern and chic as well. I also wanted it to have a golden tint to evoke the memories of sands and sunsets.

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#86. You feel that there is an avalanche coming when you meet the right person.

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#87. I'm not a trained dancer, but I grew up in a culture that revolves around dance.

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#88. Breastfeeding has been one of the best experiences of my life. I love it! I can't stop! I think I'm going to breastfeed him until he goes to college! I'm hooked!

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#89. 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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#90. You can't achieve anything in life without a small amount of sacrifice.

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#91. 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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#92. In the full light of day, I don't want to think about the sunset.

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#93. 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.

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#94. 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.

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#95. Writing songs has a therapeutic effect, and it either kills off love or wins the heart of the lover.

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#96. Because of you, I'm running out of reasons to cry.

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#97. I consider myself a laborer, building my career brick over brick under the sun.

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#98. 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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#99. A kid cannot learn with an empty stomach.

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#100. The truth is that I'm more afraid of marriage than of death.

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