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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Barbara Boxer is the most bitterly partisan, most anti-defense senator in the United States Senate today. I know that because I've had the unpleasant experience of having to serve with her.
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I had to read Plato and Kant, and at times I was overwhelmed. But I have always been fearless, and so was Hannah Arendt. She wasn't afraid to speak out when she knew her opinions would not be popular because she believed in the public discourse above all.
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For a while, I had a rule of no smartphone in bed, but now I've upgraded to no smartphone in the bedroom. The fact that we need rules shows how much these things have invaded our lives.
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There has to be a consensus and this is a report, a set of circumstances, that the international community simply cannot ignore.
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The Queen's intelligence network is a hell of a lot better than anyone's in this palace. Bar none. She knows everything. I don't know how she does it. And she sees everything.
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I always loved having the chance to disappear in a story. I always was kind of obsessed with that.
