Ellen Johnson Sirleaf Quotes
One has to look at my life story to see what I've done. I've paid a heavy price that many people don't realize.
Quotes to Explore
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When the depths are upheld by the Holy Spirit, then the reaction is Christian.
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Finding out I was pregnant was one of the most joyous moments in my life. I will never forget it.
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We're not ever interested in repeating ourselves or doing what people expect us to do, it's such a turn off.
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When you're told to go brief a United States senator on a covert operation, you go do it. And you trust the information isn't going to leak.
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A mom can't afford to be sick.
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You don't want to take the world over with a whole hamper full of dirty clothes. That's the main thing people overlook. And take a shower, take a bath every day.
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I think a smart person today realizes that you have to be part of the art films that are done just for the sake of the art.
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I was the youngest and on my own a lot. I think this probably taught me independence and how to be okay with my own company. Also, it meant I read a lot.
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True Yankees fans know an up-and-coming player when they see one.
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Controversy equalizes fools and wise men in the same way - and the fools know it.
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Alanis Morissette - I love how she's not afraid to say what she wants to say. Love it or hate it, she's going to say it. And her vocals are crazy; they're amazing, and I also love how her music is really organic.
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Lincoln was the spokesman of the rising capitalist class of the North, who viewed the emancipation of Negro slaves as indispensable to the development and triumph of the manufacturers and bankers of the industrial North, East and West over the slave-holder of the South.
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Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another.
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If you're a Republican woman, you're mostly on your own when it comes to support from traditional women's groups.
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When you are already in Detroit, you don't have to take a bus to get there.
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'Getting smart on crime' does not mean reducing sentences or punishments for crimes.
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I used to buy records in high school. Mainly dancehall: Super Cat, Buju Banton.
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A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both.
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I am suspicious of writers who go looking for issues to address. Writers are neither preachers nor journalists. Journalists know much more than most writers about what's going on in the world. And if you want to change things, you do journalism.
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My primary responsibility is to be funny.
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Le duc imita bientôt avec Bande-au-ciel la petite infamie de son ancien ami et il paria, quoique le vit fût énorme, d'avaler trois bouteilles de vin de sens froid pendant qu'on l'enculerait.
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Everybody has ideas. The vital question is, what do you do with them? My rock musician sons shape their ideas into music. My sister takes her ideas and fashions them into poems. My brother uses his ideas to help him understand science. I take my ideas and turn them into stories.
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We've always had a dark atmosphere to our performances, so it sort of developed along those ways.
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One has to look at my life story to see what I've done. I've paid a heavy price that many people don't realize.
