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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Being a model, you're always the product of somebody else's vision.
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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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Of course we've been fighting against stereotypes from Day One at East West. That's the reason we formed: to combat that, and to show we are capable of more than just fulfilling the stereotypes - waiter, laundryman, gardener, martial artist, villain.
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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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When I got out of the army, I had the G.I. Bill. Since I had no high school education or anything like that, I came to NYU, and they took a chance on me and let me in.
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Great works are done when one is not calculating and thinking.
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As I plotted 'Blueprints,' I realized that ageism against women is most obvious in the field of entertainment - and that I needed a TV show in my book.
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I was good at keeping my mother from crying.
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Everybody forgets names and faces, and it's just inconsiderate to expect someone who isn't your boss or your sister-in-law to know exactly who you are.
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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.
