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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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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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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And in that I cannot send unto you all my businesses in writing, I despatch these present bearers fully informed in all things, to whom it may please you to give faith and credence in what they shall say unto you by word of mouth.
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I'll stop talking about race when people stop being racist.
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It took a few years before I realized there was life after football.
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In America, for a brief time, people who followed Coltrane were studied and considered important, but it didn't last long. The result is that the kind of music I played in the '60's is completely dismissed in this country as a wrong turn, a suicidal effort.
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Burroughs called his greatest novel 'Naked Lunch,' by which he meant it's what you see on the end of a fork. Telling the truth. It's very difficult to do that in fiction because the whole process of writing fiction is a process of sidestepping the truth. I think he got very close to it, in his way, and I hope I've done the same in mine.
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I knew not to give the best of myself to the worst of people.
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Two people who think they're in love can find out, when left alone, exactly how little they know about each other.
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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.
