Liya Kebede Quotes
I always loved having the chance to disappear in a story. I always was kind of obsessed with that.
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I am an American citizen born in Kuwait of Egyptian parents. I grew up in Great Britain, Malaysia, and Egypt and have lived in the United States since 1965, when I was seventeen.
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Deeply consider that it is your duty and interest to read the Holy Scriptures.
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A woman who demands further gun control legislation is like a chicken who roots for Colonel Sanders.
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My interest in secret societies is the product of many experiences, some I can discuss, others I cannot.
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There are over a million people running around the United States that were born to parents just on Match.com alone, to say nothing of the other properties we run, so that's a million lives that our company just had a little to do with in bringing their parents together.
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I come from a poor family, I have seen poverty. The poor need respect, and it begins with cleanliness.
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I'm not really into alternative country - I'm into Patsy Cline, who lived down the street from where I lived, and old Dolly Parton records, Kitty Wells and that old stuff. I like country music. I also like Eric Church, who has a great new sound but also holds onto that old sound.
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Some day, I'd like to be known as the queen of containerboards.
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The only decent daily paper of record in France is the online 'Mediapart,' which exposes graft and corruption in high places and is feared by the establishment.
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Many women long for what eludes them, and like not what is offered them.
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Presumably all obsessions are extreme metaphors waiting to be born. That whole private mythology, in which I believe totally, is a collaboration between one's conscious mind and those obsessions that, one by one, present themselves as stepping-stones.
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We proved that we are still a people capable of doing big things and tackling our biggest challenges.
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My first time coming over to North America was to New York around Christmastime when I was 7. My mom was a flight attendant, and she got put on to the Trans-Atlantic route over Christmastime, so she brought the whole family.
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The Syrian regime is helping the insurgency in Iraq and allowing all kinds of militants to come in and out, and go to Iraq to attack random soldiers and innocent people.
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I love going out of my comfort zone - I live to go out of my comfort zone.
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One challenge in this industry is that you adopt a certain look for a movie, and then people don't get to see the movie for a year!
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I must say acting was good training for the political life which lay ahead for us.
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I want to be a lawyer, a dancer, an actress, a mother, a wife, a children's author, a distance runner, a poet, a pianist, a pet store owner, an astronaut, an environmental and humanitarian activist, a psychiatrist, a ballet teacher, and the first woman president.
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There's nothing more mainstream than equal pay for equal work. I mean, it's completely obvious that's what feminism should be for, and for women's right to choose what happens to their own bodies.
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My dad, he's definitely one of greatest writers of his generation. There is no question about it. When you are that good, when work is that good, you have to appreciate every aspect of it. It's the architecture of it, it's like looking at a Frank Lloyd Wright building or a Lautner building, it's master craftsmanship. Every aspect of it intertwines in a perfectly harmonious way. That's what architecture is at its best and the architecture of my father's music is on that level.
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Youth is to all the glad season of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes.
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Elton John's home is laden with trinkets and books relating to Satanism and witchcraft.
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Entrepreneurs do not try and create new types of smartphone technologies now because they know it's pointless: They're going to get sued almost immediately.
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I always loved having the chance to disappear in a story. I always was kind of obsessed with that.
