Halima Aden Quotes
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Justice is never given; it is exacted.
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I shouldn't say this, but I always love the sidekicks. I want to do a leading-lady role in a film - absolutely. But I find that a lot of times I get attracted to the sidekick role. They stand out a little more because they're quirkier, they're funnier, they're crazier.
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The fact is, beneath the hype, Iraqis will soon appreciate American help and idealism far more than French perfidy. It is never wrong to be on the side of freedom - never.
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I am flirtatious by nature, but I have never hurt anyone.
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I didn't follow big box office ideas. That eventually led me to witches. It's led me to find interesting roles.
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I'm a decent tennis player. Good backhand.
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Is literature more important than hurting people? You can't argue that. You can't say it. It's impossible.
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I went from buying my own condominium and a car for myself when I was 17 on 'The Facts of Life' to not being able to pay my rent. I was at the unemployment office all the time. I had to sell my record collection just to make ends meet. And then I started getting these voice-over jobs.
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I've always liked to dress up; I've always liked to look good. You look good, you feel good, you play good.
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Then, when I got in the military, I used to host - even in high school - I hosted the talent shows, and when I was in the military I would host all of our base Christmas parties and stuff.
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I came from nothing really to something; I came from the gutter to making the gutters.
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There's a certain kind of behavior in the Arab world that, to me, resembles the way young men behave when there is no significant influence from women in their lives.
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For the future world-trading regime to mirror economic reality and to allow the use of modern business strategies, we need a single overarching multilateral framework for trade. We can have either a flat world or a patchwork of crisscrossing mountain ranges and tunnels.
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One Tweet can be heard 'round the world if the right people retweet it and the right people notice it on their feeds.
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Many hedge fund managers have become billionaires; perhaps this - plus their reputations as the smartest guys in the room - is why they have captured the investing public's imagination.
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Socialism is good when it comes to wages, but it tells me nothing when it comes to other questions in life that are more private and painful, for which I must seek answers elsewhere.
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What is without periods of rest will not endure.
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I watched so many movies when I was a kid, and I'd watch them over and over.
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I have a necklace with a golden key, given to me by my sisters, which I always wear.
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The problem with the focus on speculators, as was demonstrated during the financial crisis, is that it tends to divert attention from the real villains. During the financial crisis, the villains were the actions of the banks, not the speculators betting on bank share prices.
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Take time to be kind and to say 'thank you.'
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Sometimes when you're with somebody, and all their stuff is at your house, it's so hard to break up with them.
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I am so pathetic with machines in real life, it's not a joke. I'd rather walk, or even run, than take the car out myself. I like to be driven around. Yes, I like fancy cars, and fancy bikes, too. It's my dream to learn how to ride one myself, but for now, I am content being driven around.
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You don't let being the first to do it stop you or get in the way.
