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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The American system of political spending is so unregulated that it might make Adam Smith rethink free markets.
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As I get older, I'm slowing down and, yes, calming down in my desire to be taken seriously. That I can be entertaining and funny and high nervous energy can work against me as a serious composer, slowly but surely you'll see me be quieter just so that people will listen.
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The Jewish people can do a lot of good if we stay united and strong - Israel and the Diaspora working together. If we don't, I always worry about the continuation of the Jewish people in Israel and abroad.
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You will either offend the world and please God, or please the world and offend God.
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Good human qualities-honesty, sincerity, a good heart-cannot be bought with money, nor can they be produced my machines, but only by the mind itself. We can call this the inner light, or God's blessing, or human qualitity. This is the essence of mankind.
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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.'
