There is no other investment that has the kind of social multiplier effect that early education has. It is an incredible thing to nurture and watch grow and spread. Shakira More Quotes by Shakira More Quotes From Shakira I'm quite proud of my rear... I don't obsess over my flaws, because I see my body as a whole. Besides, I think men appreciate confidence more than perfection. Shakira appreciate men thinking 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 respect team love-you I believe that every single one of us, celebrity or not, has a responsibility to get involved in trying to make a difference in the world. Our generation faces many challenges, some of which were passed on to us by the past generations, but it's up to us to find solutions today so that we don't keep passing our problems on. Shakira responsibility challenges today past I was five years old; I got addicted to being on stage. I felt like it was the most wonderful place on Earth, performing in front of an audience, who in this case were a bunch of classmates, kids my age. Shakira place classmates earth age 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 feeling you sexy I'm a multi-faceted woman and person, like all women are - there's no black and white. We have shades of grey in the middle. And even many more colours that other people don't see! Shakira woman women black-and-white black Relationships have to have a give and take if they're going to work in the long term. Shakira relationships give-and-take work long 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 always grades creative love 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. Shakira support education work world Success happened little by little for me. I tasted the flavor of fame in small doses: I started at 10 years old when I won a music contest; I was performing at birthday parties, company meetings. Shakira me music success birthday 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 never-give-up sad music teacher I wanna stay an eternal girlfriend. I want to have my boyfriend's children, but I don't think we need a piece of paper to regulate the game, and we don't have to go through the whole stress of a wedding and suffering to throw a good party. Shakira game good stress children You feel that there is an avalanche coming when you meet the right person. Shakira meet feel you right-person 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 me ugly truth heart I'm barefoot whenever I can be. Shakira whenever barefoot i-can I know what I'm doing even when I'm wearing a pencil skirt. Shakira wearing pencil doing know People get jaded in every profession, but for some reason, I feel as passionate as when I was 13 years old and just released my first album. I feel the same amount of adrenaline in my blood, and the same amount of curiosity as well. Curiosity about why I'm different. Shakira feel curiosity blood people 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 me my-own i-can important
