Waris Dirie Quotes
I love life. I wish I could live another 500 years, truly. There is so much to do. I don't feel bitter or angry or disappointed. If anything, I am very grateful for where I come from. I have absolutely no regrets.
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Love is a beautiful feeling.
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If I could distil the relevance of Bruce Springsteen's music to Australia it would be this: don't let what has happened to the American economy happen here. Don't let Australia become a down-under version of New Jersey, where the people and the communities whose skills are no longer in demand get thrown on the scrap heap of life.
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Oh while I live, to be the ruler of life, not a slave, to meet life as a powerful conqueror, and nothing exterior to me will ever take command of me.
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When she was younger, my mother was quite committed to Roman Catholicism. But she got disillusioned with it and moved closer to something like Buddhist beliefs near the end of her life.
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Suffering passes, while love is eternal. That's a gift that you have received from God. Don't waste it.
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The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.
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Look your best - who said love is blind?
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I approach love differently now that I know it's hard for it to work out.
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Life is about timing.
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I love C-3PO; I love the girl from 'Ex Machina' - these kind of robots that have so much soul that you feel for them.
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Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.
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When I was a kid, the miracles of my life were the Resurrection, a candlelight service on New Year's Eve, the Virgin Birth, and the Three Wise Men.
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People who have a sense of peace that their priorities are in the right place also have a sense of humility and a realistic view on life.
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When I think about atheist friends, including my father, they seem to me like people who have no ear for music, or who have never been in love.
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I just don't consider myself to be, you know, an American actor. I don't want that life.
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I believe that no matter what you do in life, if you learn the basics through theater, it will help you in everything else - problem solving, communication, discipline, all of that stuff.
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If there is anything that keeps the mind open to angel visits, and repels the ministry of ill, it is human love.
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Humans are an infant species, a mere 150,000 years old. But, armed with a massive brain, we've not only survived, we've used our wits to adapt to and flourish in habitats as varied as deserts, Arctic tundra, tropical rainforests, wetlands and high mountain ranges.
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Somehow, conductor as this superhuman conduit between the masters and the masterpieces and the immortals.
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Without art, you don't have society. It underpins so much.
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Everybody has a public life, and they have their own private life. Everybody has their secrets. Everybody has their own private, you know, agonies as well as joys. And that's what great drama, whether it's the movies or the theater, that's what it shows.
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Potentially the single greatest private sector investment in cricket since the Kerry Packer revolution 28 years ago.
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I love life. I wish I could live another 500 years, truly. There is so much to do. I don't feel bitter or angry or disappointed. If anything, I am very grateful for where I come from. I have absolutely no regrets.
