Liya Kebede Quotes
There's a saying in Africa: 'To find out you are pregnant is to have one foot in the grave.'
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There is, therefore, no solution possible other than an economy directed by the workers through their organisations of control-through the workers' syndicates.
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The average celebrity meets, in one year, ten times the amount of people that the average person meets in his entire life.
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If you want to grow a beard like mine, the only thing I can tell you is that you have to have patience. You just have to let it grow.
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One must change one's tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one's superiority.
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Information is power. But like all power, there are those who want to keep it for themselves.
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If you have spent any time with Barack Obama, you know he's a funny guy. He's a good guy. He knows sports.
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Nothing is funnier than confidently doing the wrong thing.
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I got the sense that Alabama is a place where people don't want handouts and don't much care for people talking out of the side of their mouth.
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I came to America to make it my home, and I did.
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If I am in London I like a quick get away to The Olde Bell in Hurley... It's nearby and no stress - great food and beautiful walks.
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Bad people sometimes do good things, and good people do really bad things or do something the audience disagrees with.
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Against the bold, daring is unsafe.
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Basically, Aristotle believed that every time you behaved unkind and immorally - performing actions your soul was not proud of - you tarnished your soul. The worst shape your soul became in, the worst shape your mood and spirit.
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I really just like characters who you don't know where they stand for a long while. It's like people. You hang out with them for 10 years, and then all of a sudden they do something, and you say, 'Who are you?' That's more interesting. In life and on-screen.
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A weaker currency is a national tariff. After we get a weaker currency, we have to take advantage of that. Or else, we will waste it once more in inflation and in the inability to raise competitiveness.
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If I didn't have the wrestling name that I have, I wouldn't have gotten the financial contract that I got with Strikeforce or the long-term contract or the television contract. That's all because of wrestling.
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Music is a very big part of my preparation as an actor.
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Men have made the world. And they've made a brilliant job of it. I love men. You know, men, you built Paris and you invented The Beatles, and, you know, and you've taught dogs to say 'sausages.' You know, I love your world. Thank you for it.
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Many a time have I wondered at the unworthy ways of Fate, at the pettiness of the pleasure it takes in frustrating plans that are small and innocent, at its entire want of dignity, at its singular spitefulness, at the resemblance of its manners to those of an evilly-disposed kitchen-maid....
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Bruises mapped my body from bumping into tables and tripping over curbs while walking with a book in my hand, my eyes focused on the pages instead of the live space around me.
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They started out with the best intentions, but they didn't want to be known as a poor town.
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It is the low drive for sameness and the hatred of otherness that characterizes all forms of leftism, which inevitably are totalitarian.
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On her white breast a sparkling cross she wore Which Jews might kiss, and infidels adore.
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There's a saying in Africa: 'To find out you are pregnant is to have one foot in the grave.'
