Philomena Kwao Quotes
'Sports Illustrated' has set the standard for what a swimsuit model should be. For a magazine that has that much influence to include models of different body types on their pages shows that they're breaking down old beauty ideals while opening the doors of diversity and inclusivity.
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A healthy economics has got to have both conceptual, theoretical research and applied, empirical research.
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When you sing gospel you have a feeling there is a cure for what's wrong.
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Sean Connery wasn't the Scottish James Bond and Daniel Craig wasn't the blue-eyed James Bond. So if I played him, I don't want to be called the black James Bond.
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I style my roles mostly with some help from my team of stylists.
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The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.
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A month alone would make me so happy. Not good for my dating prospects.
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But I also think that the more you reason collectively about what the project should be at the beginning of the process, the more you can improvise later.
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Always farm fresh eggs, never store bought.
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When the Islamic revolution began in 1979 under the leadership of Ayatollah Khomeini, it aroused considerable admiration in the Arab street. It presented a model of organised popular action that deposed one of the region's most tyrannical regimes. The people of the region discerned in this revolution new hope for freedom and change.
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Mostly, I don't write overtly personal stuff.
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There's so much innovation going on, and there are lots of people funding that innovation, but there's very little innovation on that infrastructure for innovation itself, so we like to do that ourselves to help companies create more tech companies.
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We develop our propensity to forgive or not to forgive by what we see illustrated at the early ages of our development.
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At the end of the day, you can't have a vision; you have to have a hope. This is where the miracle comes in.
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The best thing to do is just leave them alone. Alligators want to be away from you just as much as you want to be away from them.
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Arab-led Islamic fundamentalism destabilizes nations from Algeria to the Philippines.
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Many people love in themselves what they hate in others.
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A job is just a job at the end of the day, and work sometimes comes from the most unlikely places.
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It's incredibly fun to play someone that you don't like. It exorcises your own demons in a way. It's cathartic. We all have things that we don't like about ourselves, little things. And I get to amplify those things and put them out there. It's fun and it has a cleansing effect.
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Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great.
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I loved horses and horse books as a child.
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I think exercise tests us in so many ways, our skills, our hearts, our ability to bounce back after setbacks. This is the inner beauty of sports and competition, and it can serve us all well as adult athletes.
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The BBC sports department when I was there was seriously to the right of Ghengis Khan, and if people think I am strange, they should have met some of the production staff I worked with. Margaret Thatcher and the Queen were the pin up girls for many of them.
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'Sports Illustrated' has set the standard for what a swimsuit model should be. For a magazine that has that much influence to include models of different body types on their pages shows that they're breaking down old beauty ideals while opening the doors of diversity and inclusivity.
