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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Life is not easy for anyone. You have to have ups and downs. You can make mistakes. You learn and try not to make them again. That's pretty much my principle.
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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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I live in a landscape, which every single day of my life is enriching.
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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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I am fighting vigorously for less spending, less waste and limited government. I strongly believe that the more government grows, the less freedom Americans have.
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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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Forget mung beans' reputation as healthy yet bland - used right, they soak up loads of flavour.
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In Windsor in the forties, and even up into the fifties and sixties, if you were black, you had to sit in the balcony of the theatres, and you couldn't buy property in most places.
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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 look around my house, and everything except the kids and dogs was made in China. And I'm not sure about the kids. They have brown eyes and small noses.
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Well football teams are perhaps easier to control than political parties, I'm sure the Prime Minister would agree with me, but yeah I think every team needs discipline and a sense of self-belief and that's important, that's what leadership's all about.
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I don't understand why young entrepreneurs feel this pressure to take venture capital or go public. Don't get me wrong: Public companies are A-OK with me. I just think there is another way. Staying private is a lot more sane.
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I know that there are many things I could do, but I'm not interested. It's more important to be loving and to have a lively mind.
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Studying literature at Harvard is like learning about women at the Mayo Clinic.
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When a person is going through hell, and she encounters someone who went through hellish hell and survived, then she can say, 'Mine is not so bad as all that. She came through, and so can I.'
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It is only the very wisest and the very stupidest who never change.
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There have always been arguments showing that free will is an illusion: some based on hard physics, others based on pure logic.
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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.
