Iman Quotes
I was born in Somalia, which is in East Africa. My parents started with nothing: poor, poor, poor. They eloped, which was unheard of in my country, when my father was 17 and my mother was 14.
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So although women can do anything that men can't do, they can also do something that men can't do, and that is mother their children.
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I hated singing. I wanted to be an actress. But I don't think I'd have made it any other way.
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Bulking up for the Twilight films was one of the hardest things I've done... I had to give myself a lot of pep talks, as there was just so much gym time.
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There's no greater feeling in the world than when you can put a smile on somebody's face just by walking into a room. It's unbelievable. And if I have that power, who am I to waste it, you know?
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It did not occur to us that the Marxists' solution was fraudulent or that their vision was distorted, that whatever the wrongs in our society it was not the ideology of theirs that will cure them.
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Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.
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Libertarians know that a free country has nothing to fear from anyone coming in or going out - while a welfare state is scared to death of poor people coming in and rich people getting out.
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The cliche of what a rock star is - there's something elitist about it. I never related to that. I'm an entertainer. I think of it as, you're performing for people. It's not a self-glorification thing.
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You should always leave the party 10 minutes before you actually do.
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I led the life of an intellectual up until a certain age. I remember Freud's 'Interpretation of Dreams' was a big favorite when I was 11. It sounded so interesting. And it really was!
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There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.
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I do believe the potential for ConnectU was as big as Facebook's, absolutely.
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I will always be an actress. I couldn't see myself without acting. But I'd love to direct and keep writing. I don't think one has to be in place of the other.
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There are parents who are really angry that I decided to portray people who have come into the country illegally as decent human beings.
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You lose the speed before the stamina.
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Afghanistan is a country in need. Afghanistan needs to protect itself in the region; Afghanistan needs to secure itself within the country. Afghanistan needs to develop its forces, and Afghanistan needs to provide stability to the people.
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Hair wax is my go-to. When it comes to shampoo, I use whatever is at the rink.
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I was a bit overweight as a teenager, which may be why I'm more comfortable playing with clothes than showing my body.
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I always like to watch comics and it's interesting that you can tell if someone's funny in 10 seconds.
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My mother and I are very close; I guess you would call us 'best friends.'
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I feel some need to represent where I'm from. But ultimately, I think my only real responsibility is to - as much as possible - interrogate my own truths. This is to say not merely writing what I think is true, but using the writing to turn that alleged truth over and over, to stress-test it, in the aim of producing something readable.
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Each poem in becoming generates the laws by which it is generated: extensions of the laws to other poems never completely take.
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The trick is to make sure you don't die waiting for prosperity to come.
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I was born in Somalia, which is in East Africa. My parents started with nothing: poor, poor, poor. They eloped, which was unheard of in my country, when my father was 17 and my mother was 14.
