Halima Aden Quotes
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It's hard to always be on top. You go down, you go up.
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In vast parts of the world, people don't eat meat.
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We must do our part to end poverty in Korea so that the next generation doesn't experience what we are going through now.
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I grew up in a house full of books, and we belonged to the Country Lending Service - each month the State Library would send us a parcel of books by train.
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The politics have always been difficult in medicine. There is some truth in the way medical practice is portrayed in TV dramas.
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We confuse activity with progress, and that's always dangerous, especially in war.
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Palestinian propagandists can say and do anything they please without concern for the truth, in the belief that if they repeat it often enough it will simply become the truth.
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Cricket has become more popular, not me... When the game grows, those who've played it also 'grow.'
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I realised there were no good role models for kids. Popeye eats spinach, but also smokes and hits people.
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I figure this current era of history is the one with the best chance of quality of life for a black, female, disabled, middle-aged, queer person who's most comfortable not fitting in. The odds still aren't great, mind you. But I'll take my chances with the 21st century.
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He told us he was going to take crime out of the streets. He did. He took it into the damn White House.
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Our forefathers made one mistake. What they should have fought for was representation without taxation.
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The most influential thinker, in my life, has been the psychologist Richard Nisbett. He basically gave me my view of the world.
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I hope that the opening of the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial will be a life-altering experience that inspires every American to rededicate themselves to the fulfillment of Dr. King's dream.
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I do read some of the scripts from America and, even though the themes or subject of the film is very interesting, and some of the scenes are very interesting, there is a tendency that they have to explain everything. There will be no dilemma.
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While the Forbes Council does offer some benefits and opportunities for members, the Council may want to be careful going forward to avoid the many pitfalls that befell Trump University.
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As is well known, 'McCarthyism' was an alleged focus of political evil in the 1950s: Accusations of Communist taint, without factual basis; bogus lists of supposed Communists who never existed; failure in the end to produce even one provable Communist or Soviet agent, despite his myriad charges of subversion.
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I'm a big fan of monsters. Number one, they're fun, and two, they're such great ways to access the subconscious fears and beliefs of any group of people.
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By the very nature of satire or parody, you have to love and respect your target and respect it enough to understand every aspect of it, so you can more effectively make fun of it.
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One of the very important characteristics of a student is to question. Let the students ask questions.
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The simple facts of Chadian life - what it takes to survive in that kind of climate with nothing but a hut and some animals - stunned me. And this made me realize, perhaps for the first time, how easy my life was compared to those of people in less privileged societies.
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I always wanted to be some kind of writer or newspaper reporter. But after college... I did other things.
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But this country is a great country and will always rebound.
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Being Somali, being Muslim, it's always something I've been very proud of.
