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I think that everyone should get married at least once, so you can see what a silly, outdated institution it is.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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I always say to women, 'Take advantage of the fact that you're in the minority, don't see it as a disadvantage. You're that much more unique when there's fewer of you.
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To defend - it is very difficult to win two titles in a row.
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Women are capable of doing so many things these days, physically, emotionally, within relationships and career. There are so many things that women have evolved into and I feel really proud about where women are right now.
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Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.
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My grandmother was a huge influence on me and the fact that there was this very strong, rather formidable presence of women in my life has been an enormous value.
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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.
