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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Every time you solve a problem you’d cause another problem. And maybe all these plagues and droughts are nature’s way of striking a balance? We humans don’t have any natural predators left, so nature has to find other ways to handle us.
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If, by chance, someone among those men of extraordinary talent is found who has firmness of soul and who refuses to yield to the genius of his age and to debase himself with childish works, woe unto him! He will die in poverty and oblivion.
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I was 19 when I wrote 'Dreams,' and that would have been when it started to happen. The band got signed, and I was probably beginning to see different things besides my small town of Ballybricken.
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There might have been a hundred or a thousand life-bearing planets, had the course of evolution of the universe been a little different, or there might have been none at all. They would probably add, that, as life and man have been produced, that shows that their production was possible; and therefore, if not now then at some other time, if not here then in some other planet of some other sun, we should be sure to have come into existence; or if not precisely the same as we are, then something a little better or a little worse.
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All of us are many different people over time. We have our childhood selves, people that we remember, but they're very different to our adult selves and the way that we create our own naratives is not that dissimilar, I think, to how a biographer structures their narrative of a life.
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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.
