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" I love food, and I'm a chronic over-orderer at restaurants. "
Shakira
Love
I Love
Food
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" Always I was dreaming of a record contract. From 10 to 13, it was all I could think of. I worked hard for this dream. Nobody could say I didn't try. "
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" We need to provide higher quality and innovative early childhood development programs all throughout Latin America. "
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" When we were in the Dark Ages, it was a question of humanity somehow managing to forget about itself. We put God in the centre of society, and people forgot about their own nature and desires. There was a huge deal of repression. "
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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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" 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. "
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" I'm Colombian and nothing will change that. "
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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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" Life is a soccer field, don't you think? "
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" Fame isolates people from reality. That happens to many artists, and I don't want it to happen to me. "
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Want
Fame
" 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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" 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. "
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Person
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" 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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Fish
Think
Sunday
" Guys don't like women telling them what to do. It reminds them of their mothers, or something like that. "
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Something
Like
" When you feel complete, you don't need to get married, and you don't think about it. "
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You
Think
" 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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Respect
Me
Man
" 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 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. "
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Doing
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Always
" I feel a real sense of duty to use the voice and the platform I've been afforded by my fame to speak out for those whose voices don't get a chance to be heard. "
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Speak
Feel
" 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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Work
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" 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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I Can
" 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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Football
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" I just don't find marriage a necessary step in a couple's life. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" I adore my dad. He's a 78-year-old man and my inspiration. "
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" Becoming a mom forced me to re-prioritize and make room for the things that are most important, while recognizing that there are things I can let go of, and the world won't crumble around me. "
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" 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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Girl
" 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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