Halima Aden Quotes

I made a lot of mistakes growing up, trying so hard to fit in. I got so lost trying to please everybody.

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• I could see myself in some sort of pioneer bonnet, it's my childhood fantasy, but I think I look too Jewish for the prairie.

  

  Rachel Dratch
  • Think
  • Myself
  • Childhood

• All fashion brands are about looking good. Being Human is also about doing good. And you can do good by the simple act of slipping into a t-shirt or a pair of jeans.

  

  Salman Khan
  • Good
  • Simple
  • Fashion

• Playing evil is just not interesting. I don't think anyone who does evil stuff thinks they're doing evil stuff. That's the scary part.

  

  Carice van Houten
  • Think
  • Interesting
  • Evil

• I used to conduct the last opera in Berlin on Sunday, get on a plane on Monday to Chicago, and start a rehearsal that same night, if it was a performance week.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Night
  • Same
  • Chicago

• As the great grandchildren of the industrial revolution, we have learned, at last, that the heedless pursuit of more is unsustainable and, ultimately, unfulfilling. Our planet, our security, our sense of equanimity and our very souls demand something better, something different.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Great
  • Different
  • Revolution

• I don't like baseball movies. I like movies about moral courage and people who are indomitable and courageous and right.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • People
  • Moral
  • Courage

• The greatest things are accomplished by individual people, not by committees or companies.

  

  Fay Weldon
  • People
  • Individual
  • Greatest

• I can't see myself just endlessly singing the same songs over and over again.

  

  Sade Adu
  • Myself
  • Singing
  • See

• 'Vanity' means worthlessness.

  

  Vanity
  • Means
  • Vanity
  • Worthlessness

• I'm very fortunate to have gotten past the cancer problem.

  

  Jack Ramsay
  • Past
  • Problem
  • Cancer

• As President, I will end once and for all the use of taxpayer funds to promote the National Endowment for the Arts and other programs that subsidize amoral and degrading activities.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • End
  • President
  • Arts

• It was a complex endeavor so without Robert Redford's constant support we wouldn't have gotten to the end.

  

  Walter Salles
  • Support
  • End
  • Complex

• When 'Carmen' premiered in 1875, it was panned by the critics. It survived 45 performances. It was called a musical and moral outrage. After Bizet died, at age 37, 'Carmen' became wildly popular. If you believe in your creation, and the rest of the world is laughing or yelling 'Boo,' don't give up.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • Up
  • World
  • Believe

• Never follow somebody else's path; it doesn't work the same way twice for anyone... the path follows you and rolls up behind you as you walk, forcing the next person to find their own way.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Up
  • Work
  • Path

• I'm an outsider.

  

  Jack Levine
  • Outsider

• I have been five minutes too late all my life-time!

  

  Hannah Cowley
  • Life
  • Time
  • Late

• I have a dining room done in different shades of white, with white cushions embroidered in yellow silk: the effect is absolutely delightful and the room beautiful.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Different
  • Effect
  • Delightful

• It costs more money to put a person on death row than it does to lock them up for the rest of their lives because of attorney fees.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Up
  • Money
  • Death

• Some presidents, such as Bill Clinton and John F. Kennedy, are political sailors - they tack with the wind, reaching difficult policy objectives through bipartisan maneuvering and pulse-taking.

  

  Douglas Brinkley
  • Political
  • Wind

• Just as sports teams recognize the potentially game-changing benefit of calling time-outs, failing to do so in matters of warfare is a surefire way to continue losing.

  

  Pete Hoekstra
  • Time
  • Game
  • Sports

• You have to be totally one hundred per cent committed to act. I do value everyone else's advice, but ultimately I have to listen to myself.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • Value
  • Advice
  • Committed

• Courtrooms contain every symbol of authority that a set designer could imagine. Everyone stands up when you come in. You wear a costume identifying you as, if not quite divine, someone special.

  

  Irving R. Kaufman
  • Up
  • Special
  • Authority

• In the future, when something comes up, you tell exactly how it happened but write down for yourself the way you think it should have happened. Tell the truth and write the story. Then you won't get mixed up. It was the best advice Francie every got.

  

  Betty Smith
  • Up
  • Truth
  • Future

• I made a lot of mistakes growing up, trying so hard to fit in. I got so lost trying to please everybody.

  

  Halima Aden
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Growing