Halima Aden Quotes
My goal is to send a message to Muslim women and young women everywhere that it's okay to break stereotypes and be yourself.
Quotes to Explore
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It was a great opportunity that I had to take - my very own theater. That comes along once in a lifetime. It doesn't even seem like 15 years ago - time sure flies by. I've really had a lot of fun with it.
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I like to do the splits onstage.
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Unfortunately, there is still much to mine in this world and explore creatively.
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Just about anyone can make a good product, but it's the people that count. In the end, it's the employees who will take it from a kitchen-table idea to the next level. There are a lot of important things in business, but the people portion comes first.
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I have great respect for children. And I have great respect for their ability as writers.
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It's hard to have people talking about you and trashing you in the media and saying they think your career is over... and you are only 25.
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I did some martial arts training for 'Confessions of a Dangerous Mind,' since the character was an assassin.
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The Federal Reserve is incapable of accomplishing its stated objectives.
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It is a great delusion in those whose understanding has been darkened by self-love, to think that there is any obedience in the subject who tries to draw the superior to what he wishes.
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I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.
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Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was.
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There is no ideal body. It's just taking what you have and working it.
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Nobody shoots at Santa Claus.
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It's important to me to try and expose young people to the things they believe are off-limits to them. I tell them, 'There are no walls, only the ones we put up.' My advice to young people looking at my life is not to follow my footprint but to go out there and make their own.
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But the beginning of things, of a world especially, is necessarily vague, tangled, chaotic, and exceedingly disturbing. How few of us ever emerge from such beginning! How many souls perish in its tumult!
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When I was younger, I thought about retiring.
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Let the people on both sides keep their self-possession, and just as other clouds have cleared away in due time, so will this, and this great nation shall continue to prosper as before.
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Work is so much fun that it doesn't really seem like downtime when I'm not. But cooking, spending time with my family, friends and dog are what I'm usually doing when I'm not working on something.
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If you see ten troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you.
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'The Young and the Restless' is my favorite television show.
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I think women want to feel beautiful. They want to feel seductive. I also try to think about items that can be worn in different ways so they can be worn more than once. If you're going to buy a $2,000 jacket, you are going to want to wear it over and over.
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No production without a need. But consumption reproduces the need.
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I am not one to go for traditional female roles, because I don't think traditionally female characters are very interesting, and I don't think they represent real life.
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My goal is to send a message to Muslim women and young women everywhere that it's okay to break stereotypes and be yourself.
