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"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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"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."
American
"I admire a person who, for the love of art, is able to take off their clothes in front of a camera. But I'm not capable, I'm too cowardly for that."
Love
"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."
People
"I don't go out without make up. I'm a woman, you know."
Woman
"I was unaware of the dispute in Brooklyn. I would never knowingly wear any clothes or support any company who produced clothing with alleged wage and labor violations."
Clothes
"I pefer an ugly truth to a pretty lie. If someone is telling me the truth that is when I will give my heart."
Truth
"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."
Life
"Because of you, I'm running out of reasons to cry."
Running
"My songs are the reflection of how I think and how I feel in that moment. But I'm conscious of the fact that artists have a responsibility before the masses and they have to take care with their words."
Artist
"In this life, to earn your place you have to fight for it."
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"One who takes the road less traveled earns the rewards most missed."
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"The height of your storm determines the height of your rainbow."
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"It was rather difficult to throw a game when you had no idea what you were doing to win it in the first place."
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"The more difficult a problem is, the more discoveries you make in the process of resolving it."
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Personal Development
"When you become a transformer, you become faced with the challenge of skepticism."
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Personal Development
"You stand the risk of a down turn, because you refused to take risks. So life demands risks."
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Personal Development
"Impossible things are really rough to do, you know."
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"To understand me you should reach my level at my game, so far you are somewhere down I am above."
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Personal Development
"The structural thinking I use in the concert hall is unnecessary to most film projects, and most film composers make better use of the enormous range of pop and other materials and techniques required of them than I probably would, faced with the same challenge."
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"The challenge is what was making it exciting. You don't want to do anything that's too easy or that you know that you can pull off, otherwise it's really not worth doing."
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