Zoe Saldana (Zoe Saldana-Perego) Quotes
The biggest battle that I have is being a woman in the world. That takes center stage for me.
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I would love it if people could look at chubby folks with all of our curves, bumps and ridges and just say 'She's beautiful' just like that. You don't have to get on a treadmill as long as your blood pressure is under control and you eat healthy, God bless.
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When I took over the ministry for science and technology, our weather systems were in shambles. Nobody believed in the IMD. Nothing was in digital mode. I changed all that. We got automatic rain gauges, automatic weather stations, Doppler radars.
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Basically, when I went to school in Sri Lanka from age five onward, the classes there were sometimes sorted into a hierarchy of your skin tone. So the fairer-skinned kids sat at the front row, and the darker-skinned kids sat at the back by the poor ones who played out in the street all day long.
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Progress, real progress, makes me cry harder than anything. When the world itself grows.
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People say never work with children and animals. I actually like working with Oliver Bell, and working with a rat really opens possibilities to you because you don't know how it's going to be. It's just a rat, so you can just react to this rat being a rat, if that makes sense.
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The Bible is very clear about one thing: Using politics to create fairness is a sin.
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It's well proved economics that if a country which is rich and a country that is poor come together in global trade, sooner or later the standard of living of the poor country will go up towards that of the rich country.
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I never sell a book. I sell myself. And the way to sell yourself is to be an instrument of love.
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If I were president, I am not sure that I would offer Ed Rendell the job of chief of staff.
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I mean, I was always interested in people like Lenny Bruce, people who are breaking the old rules and making new ones.
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I can find God in nature, in animals, in birds and the environment.
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Becoming a mom made me more contentious about expressing my true taste.
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At no point am I ever threatened by people who question who I am, or why I like the things I do, or my legitimacy. Because I know who I am very strongly, and I think that's what geek culture can reinforce.
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I'm really into Greek yogurt, fruit and almonds. Those are my 'go-to' snacks.
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I used to come up with these crazy jobs to try and provoke my parents but they said, 'You can be anything you want.' So I was like, 'I want to be a garbage man' and they were like 'That's OK, we'll still love you!'
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If I'm confirmed, I'll be myself.
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Acting is a very big part of what human beings do. A dog is always a dog, but we're always changing.
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People who drive Jeeps are people who like to do outdoor activities.
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A commodity producer should be comfortable being exposed to prices.
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I think we basically saw that the messaging space is bigger than we'd initially realized, and that the use cases that WhatsApp and Messenger have are more different than we had thought originally.
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Late one night our house was attacked with stones and bricks by five or six young Christians, and my father got very upset and frightened. Well, the next day he dropped dead of a heart attack. The community knew very well that he had a heart condition, so I lay a murder to the city of Baltimore.
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Gossip. The more you talk about why people do things, the more ideas you have about how the world works.
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The biggest battle that I have is being a woman in the world. That takes center stage for me.
