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" I like fragrances that have some sweetness to them. All three I have developed have that as a common element. "
Shakira
Sweetness
Common
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" I never made it to the school choir because the music teacher didn't like my voice. 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
Teacher
Music
Me
" I never thought it was fair for an 8-year-old child not to be able to afford shoes, or to wander the streets having to beg for money. To know that child's joy would end soon, when they realised there was no future. "
Shakira
Future
Money
Joy
" I'm barefoot whenever I can be. "
Shakira
Whenever
Barefoot
I Can
" 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. "
Shakira
Respect
Me
Man
" Everyone can know what is in my heart because I find it hard to conceal myself. "
Shakira
Everyone
Myself
Know
" 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. "
Shakira
Creative
Always
Grades
" I actually support President Obama's initiatives on early childhood. He has appointed me as a commissioner to consult his administration on educational excellence for Hispanics in the U.S. We try to find ways to improve the education system for Hispanics in America, to achieve excellence. "
Shakira
Excellence
Me
Education
" My man, Gerard, prefers meat over bone. That takes the pressure off. I already have a lot to worry about. "
Shakira
Worry
Pressure
Meat
" 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. "
Shakira
Nothing
Me
Born
" 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. "
Shakira
Born
Point Of View
World
" If I can contribute to people having fun, I would feel very fulfilled as an artist. "
Shakira
Feel
Artist
Fun
" I've shaken hands with every radio station, from Honduras to Ryan Seacrest's. "
Shakira
Radio
Station
Hands
" I think my dad is the only Arabic descendent who is an unsuccessful businessman. "
Shakira
Unsuccessful
Think
Businessman
" I feel like I'm not on Earth just to shake it and shake it endlessly, you know? "
Shakira
Know
Feel
Earth
" I just don't find marriage a necessary step in a couple's life. "
Shakira
Marriage
Step
Find
" 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. "
Shakira
Small
Sweat
Pants
" 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. "
Shakira
Women
Work
Culture
" Because of you, I'm running out of reasons to cry. "
Shakira
Running
You
Reasons
" 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. "
Shakira
Fish
Think
Sunday
" I am trying to make my accent so it won't bother anyone, but I am not going to drive myself crazy trying to pretend I am an American girl when I am from Colombia. "
Shakira
Crazy
American
Myself
" I adore my dad. He's a 78-year-old man and my inspiration. "
Shakira
Man
Adore
Dad
" I'm lucky to have family around me. Otherwise, I'll be taking the risk of falling in love with myself. "
Shakira
Family
Love
Falling In Love
" 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. I'd love to go to that World Cup - I'm not sure in what capacity, but I'll definitely be there. I know that nobody wants to miss it, least of all me. "
Shakira
Love
Country
Me
" I think love is something that you have to work on, and it develops over experience and time. Love is a practice. "
Shakira
Love Is
Work
Time
" I think, if you can prove the existence of God, it can only be proven through love. "
Shakira
You
God
Love
" Both 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. "
Shakira
Future
Childhood
Quality
" I do take advantage of, you know, feeling sensual and feeling sexy. 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. "
Shakira
Woman
Control
Sexy
" 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. "
Shakira
Hurt
People
Suffering
" I'm Colombian and nothing will change that. "
Shakira
Change
Nothing
Will
" People are not depressed in Colombia the same way people are in America. "
Shakira
People
Same
America