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

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

  

  Donnie Wahlberg
  • Mind
  • Business

• Never compromise yourself.

  

  Alexa Vega

• The future path of the federal funds rate is necessarily uncertain because economic activity and inflation will likely evolve in unexpected ways. For example, no one can be certain about the pace at which economic headwinds will fade. More generally, the economy will inevitably be buffeted by shocks that cannot be foreseen.

  

  Janet Yellen
  • Future
  • Path

• But make no mistake, the President will find in our new majority the voice of the American people as they've expressed it tonight: standing on principle, checking Washington's power and leading the drive for a smaller, less costly, and more accountable government.

  

  John Boehner
  • People
  • Power
  • American

• Most of the conversation about how geopolitics is changing in the 21st century focuses on the shift from west to east and on how we're moving from the bipolar power equation of the Cold War to a new bipolar relationship, that of the U.S. and China, that determines the mood music for everyone else.

  

  Chrystia Freeland
  • Music
  • Power
  • War

• I wasn't allowed to speak while my husband was alive, and since he's gone no one has been able to shut me up.

  

  Hedda Hopper
  • Husband
  • Speak

• 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