Ellen Johnson Sirleaf Quotes
I would like to make sure, first of all, that our women in the informal sector - I mean, these are the farmers and the traders; many of them are not educated, many of them lacking literacy - be able to give them better working conditions. And we've done a lot to be able to achieve that.
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I'm sort of contrary and stubborn sometimes. When everybody says, 'You have to read this book! You have to read this book!' I'm like 'Oh, I'll get around to it.'
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You need to become more than one type of athlete. You have to be a sprinter, a weight man and a distance guy all in one.
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I think that everyone should get married at least once, so you can see what a silly, outdated institution it is.
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My parents immigrated from Italy and spent 40 days and 40 stinking nights on a boat so we didn't have to eat things like gizzards.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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Airplanes are interesting toys, but of no military value.
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It is a matter of simple fact that Icelanders have always been notoriously indolent.
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To have success in your professional life is not so hard. To succeed as a man is more difficult.
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I love the crowds at festivals because they're so chilled out.
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Museums are western inventions where the rich and the powerful or the government and the state tend to exhibit the signs and symbol and images of their culture.
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PETA's campaign should be included in school curricula. If we can open children's hearts and minds to animals' needs, teach them to treat a dog or a chicken as if they feel fear and love and pain - as they do - then they will grow up to understand that we are all worthy of respect.
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I've really loved steampunk for a long time, ever since 'Wild Wild West,' and it's always been a genre and an era that's fascinated me. But so often it's set in England, and that doesn't really resonate with me, or maybe it just seems a little overdone.
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My work always presents problems in our society. Those problems may be anything from injustice to freedom, and everything related to humanity.
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If you give people nothingness, they can ponder what can be achieved from that nothingness.
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My parents were amazing and wonderful, but there was a lot of pressure to do my best and in every way possible.
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Sympathetic cracks. A term frequently used by architects and surveyors in terms of ageing houses. I know what they mean.
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I travel around the world, and there are so many beautiful girls, but that's not going to make you a supermodel. You have to have something more than just a pretty face.
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We have to honor our commitments to today's beneficiaries, but we can't solve the growing deficit and debt problems unless we are smart, courageous, and sensible in planning for future.
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There are some days when I think I'm going to die from an overdose of satisfaction.
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All our efforts must tend towards light.
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Bush does not want to go down in history as the president who lost in Iraq. His strategy to the extent he has one is to hang tough and let whoever succeeds him take the fall.
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I am clumsy, a late and nervous driver, and despise all sports except a little gentle dancing or yoga.
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Leaving all the glamour and air-kissing aside, at the end of the day, fashion is about operations and getting things done. The best way to be successful, therefore, is to learn from the people who do it best.
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I would like to make sure, first of all, that our women in the informal sector - I mean, these are the farmers and the traders; many of them are not educated, many of them lacking literacy - be able to give them better working conditions. And we've done a lot to be able to achieve that.
