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Shakira
Musician
Born:
Feb 2
,
1977
Day
Love
Me
People
Think
You
Related authors:
Bob Dylan
Bob Marley
Dolly Parton
Frank Sinatra
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YoungBoy Never Broke Again
Writing songs has a therapeutic effect, and it either kills off love or wins the heart of the lover.
Shakira
Love
Heart
Writing
Lover
Wins
Songs
Effect
Off
Either
Therapeutic
I'm Colombian and nothing will change that.
Shakira
Change
Will
Nothing
I don't go out without make up. I'm a woman, you know.
Shakira
You
Woman
Out
Know
Make
Make Up
Without
Go
Up
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.
Shakira
Rights
Women
Stupid
Enough
Others
Those
Claim
Some
Always
Intelligent
Believed
I remember the first time I saw the 'Smells Like Teen Spirit' video. I will never forget that day. I just wanted to see Kurt Cobain's face. I had a feeling he was very cute. But, I couldn't see his face. When I finally did see him, he was even cuter than I imagined!
Shakira
Time
Day
Remember
Will
Face
First
Feeling
Cute
Teen
Saw
Finally
See
Spirit
Never
Had
He
Never Forget
Like
Smells
Him
First Time
His
Kurt
Very
Than
Forget
Did
Just
Wanted
Video
Even
Imagined
People think I like to expose my body. But I don't. It's just because the dance moves require it.
Shakira
People
Dance
Think
Like
Because
Just
Just Because
Moves
Require
Body
Expose
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.
Shakira
Love
History
Creativity
People
Sometimes
Reading
Worlds
Air
Born
About
More
Wrong
Feel
New
Still
Era
Were
Discovering
I just think that it's very helpful to have a map of your psyche, because when you have a map, you know where to go.
Shakira
You
Think
Know
Because
Go
Very
Psyche
Just
Where
Your
Helpful
Map
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.
Shakira
Me
Age
Steal
Could
Write
Take
Songs
Nobody
Discovered
Eight
Register
Them
Used
Dad
Songwriting is such an intricate part of me as an artist and as a person; I couldn't just let someone else do it.
Shakira
Me
Else
Intricate
Someone
Part
Songwriting
Person
Artist
Just
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.
Shakira
Education
Colombia
Crusade
Since
Involved
Been
Very
Then
Foundation
Started
I always had the intuition, even as a little child, that I was called for a big project.
Shakira
Big
Project
Intuition
Had
Always
Child
Little
Little Child
Even
I did not want to spend the rest of my life not being able to ride in a nice car.
Shakira
Life
Ride
Car
Rest
My Life
Nice
Spend
Able
Did
Being
Want
In 2006 I was asked to sing at the World Cup in Germany, and in 2010 I was fortunate enough to be asked again.
Shakira
World
Enough
Sing
Cup
Germany
Again
Asked
Fortunate
World Cup
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.
Shakira
Passion
More
Pursuits
Football
He
Nobody
Always
Been
Intellectual
Escape
Interested
Dad
Thing
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.
Shakira
Dreams
Nature
Move On
Absurd
Soon
Am
Accomplish
Person
Move
Next
Who
Many
Fatal
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.
Shakira
Try
Think
Say
Dream
Dreaming
Record
Could
Nobody
Always
Contract
Worked
Hard
I like fragrances that have some sweetness to them. All three I have developed have that as a common element.
Shakira
Three
Some
Developed
Like
Common
Them
Sweetness
Element
'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.
Shakira
Memories
Evoke
Ancient
Ancient Times
Kind
Sunsets
Magical
Bottle
Looked
Also
Well
Chic
Times
Modern
Tint
Depict
Golden
Wanted
Sands
Means
Used
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
Good
Me
Man
Respect
Old
Care
Nice
Kids
Takes
Just
Children
Want
Them
Who
Grow
Eventually
Treated
I like to see people's eyes when I'm singing to them.
Shakira
Eyes
People
Singing
See
Like
Them
The truth is that I'm more afraid of marriage than of death.
Shakira
Death
Truth
Marriage
Truth Is
More
Than
Afraid
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.
Shakira
Time
Hair
Thinking
Worrying
Spent
About
More
Through
Had
Bottom
Smaller
Longer
Wished
Taller
Hips
Than
Did
Legs
Twenties
Even
I'm double-jointed. I can put my legs over my head, which freaks people out.
Shakira
People
Out
Freaks
Put
Head
Over
Legs
Which
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
Day
Me
Happy
Healthy
Nothing
Later
Alike
Born
Guy
He
Head
Like
Tall
Were
Years
Very
Same
Just
Here
Two
Being raised in a developing country opened my eyes to so much I cannot tolerate. In Colombia, education is sometimes considered a luxury, not a human right. And it's not a priority in the agendas of many leaders.
Shakira
Education
Eyes
Sometimes
Luxury
Country
Considered
Colombia
Developing
Leaders
Opened
Priority
Human
Being
Cannot
Agendas
Much
Tolerate
Many
Human Right
Right
Raised
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