Liya Kebede Quotes

I don't listen to people who say my dreams are impossible; I just work to prove them wrong.

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• Women in their 40s have gone through quite a few different things, and so the roles are going to reflect that. People say, 'Oh, it's done by 40,' and now everyone knows it's not. I actually feel like the roles are a lot more interesting.

  

  Naomi Watts
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• Some of the most fun people I know are scientists.

  

  Mae Jemison
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• You have to work with the auto industry, the oil companies, you have to work to develop renewable fuel, whether it's solar or different kinds of fuel or whatever.

  

  Ted Danson
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• Glory is attained from hard work, step by step.

  

  Ma Long
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• In the education of the American people, I am Recess.

  

  Garry Marshall
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• I work out, I go to pilates, I walk and I eat everything I can get my hands on.

  

  Sally Kellerman
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• Homer's work hits again and again on the topos of the inexpressible. People will always do that.

  

  Umberto Eco
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• All the stuff that you visualized that was going to work so beautifully, you discover is trashed, so you jump to something else.

  

  F. Murray Abraham
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• Getting married and then having children just centered me and grounded my values. It was like a whole new world. It started happening in New York with a little play called Cruise Control, where I relaxed, and then I kept getting work in Hollywood till this series happened.

  

  Patricia Richardson
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• When I lived in London, I worked three jobs and had such long work days.

  

  Hannah Simone
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• There was really a snobbery from people in film - they did not want people who had come from television. It was the poor relation of show business, and especially situation comedy.

  

  Sally Field
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• I find it odd that people will go to a nice restaurant or to the theater in jeans and T-shirts.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
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• Many Christians do not believe God sends tornadoes. But they do believe that God walks with His children through the storms, that He sends His people to help after the storms, and that with and through God, there is always hope.

  

  Adam Hamilton
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• Very few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irritate the situation by making an effort. If you have a burning, restless urge to write or paint, simply eat something sweet and the feeling will pass.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
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• I think there's a lot of anxiety about being seen as a bad parent. There's still a lot of subjects that I think people aren't entirely comfortable being honest about.

  

  Adam Mansbach
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• Clothes are a kind of uniform. A nun's habit, a surgeon's scrubs, a cop's uniform. People often say that when they put on a certain uniform, they actually think of themselves differently.

  

  Victor LaValle
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• I love entertaining people, and I want to pursue it.

  

  Nash Grier
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• War is society's dirty work, usually done by kids cleaning up failures perpetrated by adults.

  

  Karl Marlantes
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• If you're writing a detective novel or horror or sci-fi, you want to expand or reinvigorate the genre in your own little way.

  Colson Whitehead
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• I still maintain several different outlets of artistry, like my music, photography, writing and all those things. I don't pigeonhole myself into one thing. I do all sorts of things, and that's so important to me.

  

  Jesse Johnson
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• In most companies, the formal hierarchy is a matter of public record - it's easy to discover who's in charge of what. By contrast, natural leaders don't appear on any organization chart.

  

  Gary Hamel
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• Three precepts are offered to constitute a foundation for the use of laboratory experimental methods in testing hypotheses about the behavior of allocation mechanisms.

  

  Vernon L. Smith

• Banging on the piano while my grandmother was watching me. I'd run up to her and ask: 'How was that, Grandma?' And she'd say, 'That was beautiful, baby!' And I'd run back to the piano and play some more. I'm sure that's why I still play today, because I was encouraged from such a young age, 2 or 3.

  

  Craig Robinson
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• I don't listen to people who say my dreams are impossible; I just work to prove them wrong.

  

  Liya Kebede
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