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.
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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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I like to see a good scientific bout by men who know the use of their hands but would rather walk twenty miles than see animals in strife.
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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 am the kind of person who is happy to be doing work. When I miss a 'Brahmotsavam' or an 'Autonagar Surya', I feel bad for a day, and that's all. I don't want to name the films I have missed, but it's true that those which I missed didn't do well.
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Anyone leaving the Congress' camp and joining - or even indirectly praising - the BJP-led NDA coalition immediately stands the risk of losing this Congress-issued certificate of secularism. It is a travesty!
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I enjoy looking at words on paper and visualizing how to make them come to life. As a director, the creative process is really amazing.
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Well, you know, I was through the whole of the Second World War and saw all my friends killed.
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But you know, the system almost destroyed itself while it was goin' on trying to destroy us.
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While you're meditating, all kinds of thoughts arise... You don't find your thoughts threatening or particularly helpful. They just become the general gossip of your thoughts. This traffic of your thoughts and the verbosity of your mind are simply part of the basic chatter that goes on in the universe. Just let it go through.
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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.
