It's like when you want to make a house. . . the technique is very important.
As women, we need to embrace our bodies and be confident with who we are.
I'm more afraid of marriage than death.
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.
Breastfeeding has been one of the best experiences of my life. I love it! I can't stop! I think I'm going to breastfeed him until he goes to college! I'm hooked!
I want some day to be able to love with the same intensity and unselfishness that parents love their children with.
I grew up in Barranquila, Colombia, and I spent most of my childhood dreaming about becoming a singer.
In a pinch, I could always get work in pictures as a makeup artist.
We changed our rules. If a player does not have some sot of altercation on or off the court once each month, we fine him. . . The guys that are our top four scorers, each of them will be required once every two months to appear on MTV. The guys who shoot the worst free throws over a one-month period, next time we have a TV game they're required to look into the camera and beat their chests after they make a good play.
Profound sadness is always the result of an unhealthy condition of the body. . . . We [should] say, 'I am sad; everything looks black to me; but external events are in no way responsible. It's my body that insists on reasoning. These are the opinions of my stomach. '
that pathetic short-cut suggested by Nature the supreme joker as a remedy for our loneliness, that ephemeral communion which we persuade ourselves to be of the spirit when it is in fact only of the body - durable not even in memory!