Eskinder Nega Quotes
Freedom is partial to no race. Freedom has no religion. Freedom favors no ethnicity. Freedom discriminates not between rich and poor countries. Inevitably freedom will overwhelm Ethiopia.
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I can just sense some eyes, some people kinda stare a little bit like they recognize me but don't quite know for sure kinda thing.
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You don't think about the danger. The spaceship becomes your home.
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My dad's one of the funniest men in the world. I grew up with him making me laugh so much I'd beg him to stop.
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The Arab states don't seem to do a good job of providing for their own people, so I am not sure why they would suddenly develop an ability to help the Palestinians.
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I'm not a proper traveler. I don't like to be challenged or have too much of a change and prefer a week away just to relax.
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I was making my living from a joke about my appearance that I didn't understand, and in a way still don't, because when I look in a mirror it doesn't seem funny to me.
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I think I'll be single my whole life. It's entirely possible I'm going to end up alone. Because I don't want to make any sacrifices for my own development and achieving what I want to achieve, and I don't want a family to get in the way of that.
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When I was living in Paris in the '80s, I used to go out with an American model who couldn't speak French. But suddenly everyone could speak English because he was so cute.
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I know that inner wisdom is more precious than wealth. The more you spend it, the more you gain.
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To me an unnecessary action, or shot, or casualty, was not only waste but sin.
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People are where they are because that is exactly where they really want to be - whether they will admit that or not.
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I don't care if you're Muslim or Christian or Buddhist or whatever your religion is, when you listen to a spiritual song and you really open your heart, you can feel it. You can feel the message of it. Just a simple story.
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Every movement has radicals. But the important thing is that the radicals are not the leaders.
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Ummm, there is not just one good thing about being a VJ, it is a package deal. It is a fun job and you get paid to party and have a good time and make people have a good time, which is great.
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The London games mark the 24th anniversary of my winning two golds and setting the world record in the heptathlon. Someone is going to want it; records are made to be broken - it's only a matter of time. I hope mine will outlive me.
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Nothing is more powerful than custom or habit.
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We're still in a recession. We're not gonna be out of it for a while, but we will get out.
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The Chanel woman is slender, sophisticated and chic.
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Tweeting has taught me the discipline to say more with fewer words.
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I've been at writing long enough now to know that every three or four books, I have to start a new direction.
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I wake up to an email from the writers with the new script, and I always get so excited because I know it'll be better all-around than the script from the week before.
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Speech at the Nobel Banquet (10 December 1979).
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I don't want to sound too cocky. But I consider myself superwoman.
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Freedom is partial to no race. Freedom has no religion. Freedom favors no ethnicity. Freedom discriminates not between rich and poor countries. Inevitably freedom will overwhelm Ethiopia.
