Liya Kebede Quotes

Helping others isn't a chore; it is one of the greatest gifts there is.

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• Loyalty of the law-making power to the executive power was one of the dangers the political fathers foretold.

  

  Garet Garrett
  • Power
  • Political
  • Law

• Well, I needed the work - that's the honest answer. I haven't worked for a while, a couple of years. So I thought it would be nice to get back to work and earn some money.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Work
  • Money
  • Nice

• I am devoted to my husband and son. I am devoted to the practices and rituals that imbue our lives with a sense of meaning and purpose, that help me to live my days in the most emotionally and intellectually productive manner. I am devoted to the idea of devotion itself.

  

  Dani Shapiro
  • Live
  • Help
  • Purpose

• The thing about Moby Dick is that, at heart, it's a very simple plot - there's only one white whale in the ocean. When you're a boy growing up in a hostile home, you imagine it's unique: it's happening only to you.

  

  Gavin O'Connor
  • Up
  • Heart
  • Home

• The sci-fi movies I grew up with, the metaphor was very rich, and they used to really mean something: David Cronenberg's films, or John Carpenter's films, or the Phil Kaufman and Don Segel versions of 'Invasion Of The Body Snatchers,' or George Romero's early zombie films.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Up
  • Body
  • Movies

• Congress is my ideological home; I come from a Nehruvian family.

  

  Nandan Nilekani
  • Family
  • Home
  • Congress

• It was not a religion that attacked us that September day. It was al-Qaeda. We will not sacrifice the liberties we cherish or hunker down behind walls of suspicion and mistrust.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Day
  • Religion
  • Sacrifice

• Patricia Nixon gave up a career to become a political wife. She rose to the pinnacle of glory and then fell to disgrace because of deeds over which she had neither control nor knowledge.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • Up
  • She
  • Career

• Even an independent label is looking for a hit, they're not looking for a record that's not gonna do well.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Independent
  • Looking
  • Well

• The real use of AI in industry is generally for very narrow pattern-matchers - a better search algorithm, an object-detection algorithm, etc. These things are tools which we can use - for good or evil. But they're nothing like self-aware beings.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Good
  • Real
  • Evil

• They're all deserting me. I've been too kind. Spare the rod and spoil the fun. Oh, for the glands of a Bismarck.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Fun

• Sentiment is for those who don't know what to do next.

  

  Nadine Gordimer

• Taxing is an easy business. Any projector can contrive new impositions, any bungler can add to the old.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Business

• How blessings brighten as they take their flight!

  

  Edward Young

• Could it be, he wondered, that the goldenness was the Hazers' life force and that they wore it like a cloak, as a sort of over-all disguise? Did they wear that life force on the outside of them while all other creatures wore it on the inside?

  

  Clifford D. Simak
  • Life

• A noir, E blanc, I rouge, U vert, O bleu: voyelles,Je dirai quelque jour vos naissances latentes !

  

  Arthur Rimbaud

• Acting and singing were just a hobby, but getting into drama school made me realise I could actually do it for a living.

  

  Birgitte Hjort Sorensen
  • School
  • Singing
  • Drama

• Before I was ever in high school, I had dark circles under my eyes.

  

  Benicio Del Toro
  • School
  • High
  • Eyes

• As far as the political landscape in our state, I think that what we continue to see is that Tennessean voters are more independent and more conservative, and they are watching issues very closely; they are watching votes very closely.

  

  Marsha Blackburn
  • Political
  • Independent

• I like zombies; I like them fine. But I don't have a long list of zombie movies or books that are among my favorite things in the world.

  

  Steve Hockensmith
  • Movies
  • Books
  • Zombie

• It's weird being an author because it's different than writing songs. You put so much more of yourself out there to be judged because it's a memoir. So when the reviews come in, they all feel really personal. Some people are just going to hate you no matter what. Personally, I never believe good reviews.

  

  Dean Wareham
  • People
  • Good
  • Believe

• Helping others isn't a chore; it is one of the greatest gifts there is.

  

  Liya Kebede