Waris Dirie Quotes

I don't know what a supermodel is. If they call me that, I might have to punch them. It's just so vain and so unreal.

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• We lived in Atlanta for a couple of years, and had a lot of fun, but my best work happens when I isolate myself. It's all about turning inward.

  

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• I will keep working hard!

  

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• Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.

  

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• Music is my release.

  

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• My dad is a comedian, entertainer, you know. He always likes to make people laugh. With me, it just depends on what mood I'm in. You get what you get.

  

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• We all should face some failures in life and learn from them. We should accept it and move on.

  

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• Gov. Perry has led the way in Texas on creating an environment for job growth.

  

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• The British Museum was our first real museum, the property of the public rather than the monarch or the church.

  

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• The primary problem in many modernizing societies is not liberty but the creation of a legitimate public order. Men may, of course, have order without liberty, but they cannot have liberty without order.

  

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• By our form of government, the Christian religion is the established religion; and all sects and denominations of Christians are placed upon the same equal footing, and are equally entitled to protection in their religious liberty.

  

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• I don't know what a supermodel is. If they call me that, I might have to punch them. It's just so vain and so unreal.

  

  Waris Dirie
  • Know
  • Me
  • Vain

• I don't know what a supermodel is. If they call me that, I might have to punch them. It's just so vain and so unreal.

  

  Waris Dirie
  • Know
  • Me
  • Vain