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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To me it's a two-way street. They're good to me, and I'm good to them. It's a natural thing for me to love people, and I think people sense it. ... I am secure with the kind of person I am. I don't feel like I'm better than anyone, but I'm just as good as anyone.
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I admire people who have that integrity, who know how to peacefully move through a situation - and it's reflected in how they deal with things like loss.
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When I was 50 years old, I actually decided to draw up a list of half a dozen things that I really hadn't done very well, and I was going to make efforts to improve. One of them was skiing, and I really did become a very much better skier.
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They all know I'm back, very much back, and that I will be the general president again come hell or high water.
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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.
