Halima Aden Quotes
If there's one message I want people to take away is never compromise being your authentic self. Even if that means making others uncomfortable.
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Fashion and interior design are one and the same.
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I dress for men.
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Where I'm focused now is how I get more women leaders. We decided not to just look outside the company for great women to hire, but to help women rise up through the ranks internally.
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Then you had people who wanted to get into comedy just to get a TV deal.
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It used to hurt me that people thought I didn't have the technique and the temperament to play Test cricket.
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Because I was a dancer, I started going to auditions for musical theater, which forced me to sing.
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But the fact a person denies that he is theorising is no reason for taking him at his word and failing to investigate what implicit theory is involved in his statements.
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The underdog often starts the fight, and occasionally the upper dog deserves to win.
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Jagdish Singh was my basic coach, and he trained me from my very early days in boxing, teaching me the fundamentals of the sport. He was the one who shaped me into a boxer, disciplined me when I required disciplining.
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I'm definitely a hair down girl. I'm a fan of the natural, earthy look.
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I've always been about how will digital be transforming established businesses, and that's what I've done.
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If you saw pictures of me as a kid, you'd laugh because I was always in football kit.
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Possessions. The very word is potent - suggestive as it is of ownership both material and erotic. To possess. Possession. Possessed.
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Catholicism played such a huge part in my life, I would not have survived without my faith.
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The Indian market is potentially the largest market in the world with the leadership at both central and state level focused on leapfrogging into the future.
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We should all love animals.
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I used to go down every year for the remembrance of Elvis' birthday. Memphis State College invited me to sit in the auditorium and speak to the people for one of those Elvis days.
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I think the art fair is very much a form of urbanism. I think something really happens to the cities when such a fair happens. The city becomes an exhibition; it's amazing.
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There was some murmuring, but also some grins on the faces of the men looking on: the sight of their Captain sitting on the ground and eye to eye with a young hobbit, legs well apart, bristling with wrath, was one beyond their experience.
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My guide had a copy of Palestine on my last trip to Gaza. He'd bring it out and show people what I was trying to do. That usually went over pretty well.
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People care about others in their immediate network.
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With the movies, people are not going to wait around. The deadline is a deadline. In publishing it's more a polite suggestion.
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Out of all my friends, I believe I'm the only kid whose dad made us work to cut rebars; we laid bricks in construction sites and did other real work every summer for minimum wage. Our dad said that it's important in the future that when we tell people to dig a hole, that you personally know how long it will take to dig that hole.
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If there's one message I want people to take away is never compromise being your authentic self. Even if that means making others uncomfortable.
