Ellen Johnson Sirleaf Quotes
Ethnicity should enrich us; it should make us a unique people in our diversity and not be used to divide us.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm not into things that feel like a sequel. There's just something magical about when something happens for the first time.
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Understated jewellery is not for me. It's too itsy-bitsy. My husband is lucky, as I've never had a yen for real jewels.
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The question we all face is what sort of culture we will live in for the rest of our lives and then hand on to the next generation - one that embraces these most basic of values, or one that collapses because of their absence.
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My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.
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For me, my home is a peaceful place where I can rest, and it gives me back energy.
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I grew up playing basketball and baseball. I've always been active because my dad played professional football, so sports and working out have always been a part of my life.
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I do believe that the coal industry sees the cultural shift toward cleaner energy and global warming solutions as a threat to their interests.
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It was hard at school because, growing up, some people wanted to be friends with me just because they wanted to get to my dad and say that they had met him and had gone to our house. I didn't understand it at the time, but the older I got and the more aware of it I became, it started becoming hard.
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World War II has always been of great interest to me. I've known for decades that it was just one more war the politicians suckered us into.
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I went to an all-girls Catholic high school. The three things that they focused on were reading, writing, and arithmetic. My goodness, this is a novel idea in this modern society. I was really good at all three of these things. I was particularly good at math.
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Inventions have long since reached their limit, and I see no hope for further development.
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You don't have to hit anybody on the head to be sexy.
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There are still traces of discrimination against race and gender, but it's a lot different than when I started out. It just comes quietly, slowly, sometimes so quietly that you don't realize it until you start looking back.
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The importance of satire is bringing more people to the table. There are a lot of average citizens who aren't interested in politics and would be more interested if it's brought to them in a comedic, funny, satirical way.
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I want love, because love is the best feeling in the whole world.
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As someone who works from home, my top style tip is to make sure you get dressed in the morning.
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I'm ready for a different America.
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Thrift shopping is all about going into the thrift shop and having no expectation of what you might find.
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A form of reason that in some way wished to strip itself of beauty would be diminished; it would be a blinded reason.
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I'm not ashamed; I work hard to look how I do.
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Not money, or success, or position or travel or love makes happiness,--service is the secret.
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I really believe in, 'Move on, live and let live, forgive and forget.'
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I just want to have a nice, happy life.
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Ethnicity should enrich us; it should make us a unique people in our diversity and not be used to divide us.
