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" 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. "

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" 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. "

Shakira

Love

You

Two

" 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. "

" You're a song written by the hands of God. "

" 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. "

" I thank God that I'm a product of my parents. That they infected me with their intelligence and energy for life, with their thirst for knowledge and their love. I'm grateful that I know where I come from. "

Shakira

Knowledge

Grateful

" 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. "

Shakira

Him

Inspiration

" I'm lucky to have family around me. Otherwise, I'll be taking the risk of falling in love with myself. "

" I would love to have eight or nine kids with Gerard - my own futbol team. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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! "

" My brain, I believe, is the most beautiful part of my body. "

" I always had the intuition, even as a little child, that I was called for a big project. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" A kid cannot learn with an empty stomach. "

" I started my own Pies Descalzos/Barefoot Foundation when I was 18. We provide education to vulnerable children in Colombia and other developing countries. I am an avid believer that education - and especially early childhood development - is the key to breaking the cycle of poverty. "

" I like to see people's eyes when I'm singing to them. "

" I pefer an ugly truth to a pretty lie. If someone is telling me the truth that is when I will give my heart. "

Shakira

Heart

Someone

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

Shakira

Relationship

Tell

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

Shakira

My Own

I Can

" I tried to give my career a shot from Barranquilla, but the musicians would never show up. It was just not taken seriously. "

Shakira

Seriously

Career

" 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. "

" 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

Man

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

" I think my dad is the only Arabic descendent who is an unsuccessful businessman. "