Waris Dirie Quotes
Fashion is fun, ridiculously fun. But it's base and it's wrong. You're not doing anything good for the world. You're just saying, 'Buy it, buy it, buy it.'
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I'm such a stereotypical female learner in that I love social studies and love literature, and I always struggled with math and science.
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I like films to be complete in their written form.
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Listen to the Bee Gees and you can learn to be a great writer.
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All institutions have lapses, even great ones, especially by individual rogue employees - famously in recent years at 'The Washington Post,' 'The New York Times,' and the three original TV networks.
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I'm very obsessed with 'The Real Housewives' franchise. It's a bad obsession.
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Don't try to guess what it is people want and give it to them. Don't ask for a show of hands. Try your best to write what you like, what you think your friends would like and what you think your father would like and then cross your fingers... The most valuable thing you have is your own voice.
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I hope to make movies that are so small they don't need to make anything to be profitable.
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I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it, on the inside.
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That's what I like to do, I like to make songs.
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We want a marriage with our customers, not a relationship.
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In passing, also, I would like to say that the first time Adam had a chance he laid the blame on a woman.
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Even a genius cannot completely resist his Zeitgeist, the spirit of his time.
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We who curate our Twitter feeds and Facebook walls understand that at least part of what we're doing publicly, 'like'-ing what we like, is trying to separate ourselves from the herd.
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I would never go to a gym. How could I do it? So I tried to do it in my house and it doesn't work.
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I moved on from dice baseball to 'MLB: The Show' on PlayStation.
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I would like to break out of this dark, brooding image, cause I'm actually not like that at all.
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Friends are really important, especially when you've had the successes that I've had. I've gone really far in my career, so they're the ones that keep you humble, keep your feet on the ground.
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Deep inside, I was hoping I'd win: The competition was tough, but I learned from other's mistakes.
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I've been trying to do films for years. So I've decided to wait until the next good part comes along and develop a record on my own in the meantime.
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Words change over time. 'Condescending,' for instance, was once a good thing to be. It meant that a person was willing to interact politely with people of lower social ranks. In Jane Austen's world, a lady praised for her condescension was receiving a sincere compliment.
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I think all politicians lie.
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What's been happening in Iraq, what young Americans wearing flak jackets, helmets and flight suits have done is... created the circumstances under which Iraq can become our closest ally in that part of the world and still have a representative government. And that's going to be a very good thing considering what's going on in that neighborhood.
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All religions must be made child-proof. Our teachers' unions have done good work in this field, K through 12. Delaying first communions and bar mitzvahs until age 21 would be another positive step.
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Fashion is fun, ridiculously fun. But it's base and it's wrong. You're not doing anything good for the world. You're just saying, 'Buy it, buy it, buy it.'
