Waris Dirie Quotes
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I am not content to entrust our free-speech rights to the good graces and whims of Congress and hope that politicians don't abuse their power.
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The search for knowledge is a long and difficult task.
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I want to drink champagne from ladies' shoes.
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Like baseball, food will never go out of style; we will always need to eat and we will always find it entertaining. I think of food TV this way - all the fun and none of the calories.
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I'm not going to lie; the most fun of writing these books is just saying, 'Where am I going to write about? Let me go there!'
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I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.
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My greatest regret is selling my company.
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There are no opportune times for a penalty, and this is not one of those times.
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I'm not a cheater, but if I win Olympic gold and people are looking at me and saying I am a cheat because I've won, it's hugely disrespectful given the hard work I've put in.
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I am going to keep having fun every day I have left, because there is no other way of life. You just have to decide whether you are a Tigger or an Eeyore.
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All that we know is nothing, we are merely crammed wastepaper baskets, unless we are in touch with that which laughs at all our knowing.
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There is no better high than discovery.
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You numb yourself so you're not terrified when you're on TV at 7 o'clock in the morning with Justin Bieber, who you just met a couple of days before, having to perform in front of millions of people.
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I'm a runner first before anything else.
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The world depends on fungi, because they are major players in the cycling of materials and energy around the world.
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Do not learn more than you absolutely need to get through life.
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From a population point of view, it's actually very important that as few people as possible get the flu. People getting the flu is not a private matter. The risk for healthy people is really about your friends and neighbors and fellow travelers.
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I gravitate to whatever looks good on me and whatever maakes me feel sexy.
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I like to make records sound good. I'm more like a reducer than a producer. If an artist cannot produce themselves, what's the point?
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I'm a very respectful fighter, I don't get out of character and start talking crazy, but if you don't want to fight a fighter, or you don't think it's a good style, or it's just not time, then say that.
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I must be out of it, but I don't know any good journalists who have excused Clinton's problems.
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If I could read your mind loveWhat a tale your thoughts could tellJust like a paperback novel just like the kind a drug store would sellWhen you reach the part where the heart aches come the hero would be meBut heroes often failAnd you won't read that book again because the endings just too hard to take..
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Brooklyn's good. Brooklyn's funky. Brooklyn's happening.
