Elizabeth Kenny Quotes
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I tried to play rugby but was never very good.
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Certainly, if we had not invaded Iraq on intelligence that was clearly manipulated and cherry picked, we would be in a different position today.
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When I first got Yves Saint Laurent Couture, I didn't know how to take off a cape. I would ask Katoucha and Dalma - the real divas of the runway - 'Can you show me?' I've never been afraid to ask for help.
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For me, 'Atmosphere' was more about looking inwards and reaching out to people close to me. To emphasize the fact that I'm singing on the first single, this album is really more about me and songs that I've written instead of collaborating with people.
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America slept because most Americans preferred it that way.
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I love being a father. It's one of my big jobs is just being a parent. It's one of my favorite things I do.
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Since I became Secretary-General, five years ago, I have seen youth participate at the United Nations as never before.
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A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.
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Scientists have egos, and scientists like to name dinosaurs. They like to name anything. Everybody likes to have their own animal that they named.
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I sent 'Hell or High Water' to Peter Berg, asking if he'd like to be involved.
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Gender equality and women's empowerment have been a top priority for me from day one as Secretary-General. And I am committed to making sure that the U.N. leads by example.
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Death means change our clothes. Clothes become old, then time to come change. So this body become old, and then time come, take young body.
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We all walk in the dark and each of us must learn to turn on his or her own light.
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The shooting of the guns, that was kind of funny, because rolling a cigarette and shooting a gun aren't like normal things for a 13-year old girl!
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Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast, the disk jockey is not allowed to talk.
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I believe that the power of literature is stronger than the power of tyranny.
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I used to do little sketches into my cassette tape recorder when I was a little boy. I would just turn it on and just start doing voices and characters. I just loved it.
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I studied English literature; I took 2 independent religion classes, but I wasn't a religion major really.
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By the time of the '90s boom, CEOs had become superheroes, accorded celebrity treatment and followed with a kind of slavish scrutiny that Alfred P. Sloan could never have imagined.
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Topsoil is a place of digestion. It sucks and chews things into smaller pieces. When it's hungry, it turns grey and stony; when it's thirsty, it opens thousands of cracked lips. Subsoil is more skeletal: it doesn't digest.
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'Naked' embodies what everyone, at the end of the day, really wants and how they should feel.
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At night I wake up and think, What color will make me feel better when I soak in the bathtub for an hour? I want everyone who's dreaming of a glamorous life to know that I'd trade a good bath any day for the heels, the hair, the makeup, the tight dresses, the photographs, the small talk.
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I spent more time on dark ships in danger zones than any other woman in the world.
