Ellen Johnson Sirleaf Quotes
In Liberia, the big challenge that remains for us is job creation. We want young people to work or go to school. That is our main preoccupation right now.
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I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.
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These rules may seem simple enough, but it will require great morale and physical courage to adhere to them. But if carried out in the strict sense of the word it will surely lead to a greater success than could otherwise be attained.
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I get a lot of influence from pro wrestling. People are like, 'Oh, it's fake.' But it's not about whether the guy wins or loses, it's about how he entertains you the whole time you're watching.
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If you come to my house, you won't see a wall of trophies or things like that. I'm sort of 'on to the next thing' all the time.
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I got to write most of everything I said.
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Though it has plenty of competitors, Slack claims to be the 'fastest growing business application in history'.
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I was shot when I think it was number one. That was the catalyst for the interest in the show. Certainly it went on for a long time after that but that's what really kicked it off. Of course a lot of people watched it just because of the novelty of the situation.
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When I won the belt, it was kind of a precedent... The only Canadian to have ever held it.
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I have little doubt that gerontologists will eventually find a way to avoid, or more likely, delay, the unpleasantries of extended life.
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I had seen birth and death but had thought they were different.
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Everyone asks me if I'm the princess or if my brothers beat me up. The younger ones I can deck pretty easily. With the older ones, it's harder.
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The history of Germany is not the history of a nation, but of a race. It has little unity, therefore; it is complicated, broken, and attached on all sides to the histories of other countries.
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Only Arab Israel, the land of Israel, is our true homeland.
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(On seeing a former lover for the first time in years) I thought I told you to wait in the car.
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Law is nothing unless close behind it stands a warm, living public opinion.
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You think, 'You hired me because I'm a creative artist with a vision. Don't try and knock it out of me.'
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Sometimes, America, when something's too bad, we don't want to look at it. We want to turn our head.
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Common Core isn't a test, but for some people it is, because they don't like the testing piece of it.
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In general, I feel very happy with how I got to have time on my own at least a little bit outside of the public eye.
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If it's your job to eat a frog, it's best to do it first thing in the morning. And If it's your job to eat two frogs, it's best to eat the biggest one first.
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One of the big challenges now is to figure out just how many viruses there really are in the human genome. So far the estimate is 8.3% of our genome is virus, but it actually could be a lot higher.
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I want to work, so I'm going where the work is.
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I do have a small collection of traditional SF ideas which I've never been able to sell. I'm known as a fantasy writer and neither my agent nor my editors want to risk my brand by jumping genre.
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In Liberia, the big challenge that remains for us is job creation. We want young people to work or go to school. That is our main preoccupation right now.
