Liya Kebede Quotes

First I became U.N. Goodwill Ambassador for WHO, and that was in 2005. And then, about a year or so later, I decided to start my foundation.

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• If the day comes where I can have my own action figure... I defy any actor to say that's not a good day.

  

  Owain Yeoman
  • Good
  • Action
  • Day

• As for swimming, I'm now in the pool 5 days a week from 8 to 10 a.m. And I'm in the gym for an hour and a half, 4 days a week. Two days upper body, two days lower.

  

  Dana Torres
  • Body
  • Week
  • Gym

• Disney's Tomorrowland is deeply, thoroughly, almost furiously unimaginative.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Disney
  • Almost
  • Deeply

• I definitely like wearing leotards.

  

  Maddie Ziegler
  • Like
  • Definitely
  • Wearing

• You know it's harder to be a girl in this world because we're the weaker sex.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • World
  • Girl
  • Know

• If you don't feel good in it, don't wear it, because you'll never look good.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Good
  • Look
  • Feel Good

• From all this it follows what the general character of the problem of the development of a body of scientific knowledge is, in so far as it depends on elements internal to science itself.

  

  Talcott Parsons
  • Character
  • Science
  • Knowledge

• Before the release of my film, small or big, the feeling is always the same.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Feeling
  • Small
  • Always

• You have to hand it to America. It has exercised a quite clinical manipulation of power worldwide while masquerading as a force for universal good.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Good
  • Power
  • America

• Most days I wake up thinking I'm the luckiest bastard alive.

  

  Linus Torvalds
  • Up
  • Thinking

• When I woke up just after dawn on September 28, 1928, I certainly didn’t plan to revolutionize all medicine by discovering the world’s first antibiotic, or bacteria killer, ... But I guess that was exactly what I did.

  

  Alexander Fleming
  • Up
  • World
  • September

• I was kicked out of the house, and I was really difficult as a kid. I'm happy it happened because I was able to grow so much from it, you know? It's always hurtful to feel that you can't be on the same page with people that you love as much as your family. Sometimes they don't know how to deal with all the things that are coming at them.

  

  Kali Uchis
  • People
  • Family
  • Happy

• It's so funny because when I talk about fashion and menswear designers, it's really like a small percentage of my head. I don't mind talking about it, but I always worry that it's gonna seem to the outside world that that's all I think about.

  

  Albert Hammond, Jr.
  • World
  • Mind
  • Small

• Microsoft's new OS, Windows 7, may finally be a worthy successor to XP, eliminating the clutter of Vista and letting users get to what they want to use without the fuss. All this, while remaining compatible with their IT departments' demands for scalability and custom implementations.

  

  Douglas Rushkoff
  • May

• I'm honored and thrilled to represent such an iconic brand and to be a part of the Maybelline New York family.

  

  Frida Gustavsson
  • Family

• If the brain expects that a treatment will work, it sends healing chemicals into the bloodstream, which facilitates that. And the opposite is equally true and equally powerful: When the brain expects that a therapy will not work, it doesn't. It's called the 'nocebo' effect.

  

  Bruce Lipton
  • Work
  • True
  • Powerful

• It's not easy for a film to tell a story of the experiences of an entire society. However, from an individual's perspective, it is possible to tell one aspect of an entire society's story.

  

  Jiang Wen
  • Society
  • Perspective

• Producing suits me because I have a business mind and a business sensibility.

  

  Donnie Wahlberg
  • Mind
  • Business

• Every day we’re given chances to embrace the new.

  

  Sarah Ban Breathnach
  • New
  • Chances

• I was only an aspiring dictator. I was never a real dictator.

  

  Augusto Pinochet
  • Real

• Rightly or wrongly, for better or worse, valuation is a very important tool for recruiting - particularly in the markets for software engineering, where the market is really tight.

  

  Parker Conrad
  • Important
  • Engineering

• I love being Latina. I love our values, the way we're so in touch with others, our dark humor, how fun we are, how relaxed we are. I love how hard working, independent, and ambitious we are.

  

  Eiza Gonzalez
  • Fun
  • Dark
  • Independent

• The U.S. has not been big in new coaches - the U.S. is really behind Europe. It's the great passenger car and airplane that dominate American travel, and trains and buses have been much more secondary.

  

  Charles Pelly
  • Great
  • American
  • Car

• First I became U.N. Goodwill Ambassador for WHO, and that was in 2005. And then, about a year or so later, I decided to start my foundation.

  

  Liya Kebede