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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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 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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Afghanistan is a country in need. Afghanistan needs to protect itself in the region; Afghanistan needs to secure itself within the country. Afghanistan needs to develop its forces, and Afghanistan needs to provide stability to the people.
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I've always said that the word 'genius,' especially in Hollywood, is way overused.
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We started about three years before YouTube existed, so we had to host all the videos on our own servers at a co-location facility. When we got so many hits on our first few videos, and we estimated our bandwidth bill was going to be about $12,000 a month, we knew that we had to establish a business model ASAP.
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My mom was so people-friendly. She was incredible. She'd go to the mall, and she'd talk to everyone. Give people a kiss on the cheek. I think if I wasn't pushed around a lot, I'd be great with people. Maybe I still can be.
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All people, even one's own children, come with baggage. When they're little, you have to help them carry it. But when they grow up, you have to do that difficult thing of setting their baggage down and taking up your own again.
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I fall in love with characters when they're out of their element or are uncomfortable and you really feel for them in a knee-jerk sympathetic way.
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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.
