Liya Kebede Quotes
Miriam Were has made outstanding contributions to public health in the developing world. She brings basic medical services to women and children in East Africa.
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How small a part of time they share, That are so wondrous sweet and fair!
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Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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I'm so tired of stories starting, 'Maud Jones was walking her dog down Broadway.' You've got to go over to the back page somewhere to finally find out the damn dog was run over by a truck. Get the thing told, for heaven's sake. Everybody doesn't have to be an O. Henry.
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I kinda wanted to play receiver more.
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I like to wear clothes that I will wear when I am an old lady.
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My mother had an illegal abortion in 1960, which was the year the birth control pill came out, but I guess a little late for her, but - and I never knew. I found out when my father, after her death, got her FBI file.
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I don't really like to talk about other people. I think people who have things going on in their lives, I think they have enough to deal with, they don't need, you know, Abigail Breslin weighing in on their lives.
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Without troublesome work, no one can have any concrete, full idea of what pure mathematical research is like or of the profusion of insights that can be obtained from it.
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People have given me the freedom and believe in me enough to say if I want to do these things that I will find a way to make it work. I don't know if they think I'm crazy, drug damaged or just an old weirdo.
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When I chased after money, I never had enough. When I got my life on purpose and focused on giving of myself and everything that arrived into my life, then I was prosperous.
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Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all.
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Behaviour arises from the level of one's consciousness.
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Obscurity can be a fire of ambition in those who have stalwart souls.
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I think if you are creative then it's an unstoppable thing. It just keeps coming throughout your entire life.
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Over the long hours of taping 5, 6 or 7 episodes a day, we develop a great sense of family.
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Give yourself more opportunities for privacy, when you are not bombarded with duties and obligations. Privacy is not a rejection of those you love; it is your deserved respite for recharging your batteries.
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It is impossible, in my mind, to distinguish between the refusal to receive a petition, or its summary rejection by some general order, and the denial of the right of petition.
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You can have all the talent in the world, but without determination, you won't get very far.
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I am continually pleasantly surprised by how many people are showing up at shows and are younger than our first record.
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My hope is that I can continue writing and, in the future, I can just be Maya Soetoro-Ng.
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If, as is the custom, I speak mainly about my own researches, I must say that I was fortunate in finding that not everything had yet been gleaned in the field of general thermodynamic radiation theory.
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I lied to Julia, I didn't know what else to do because you - you make me feel..." I had to stop. Not because I didn't have words. I did. But I was afraid to say them. He looked at me, and I knew then I could love him. That if I let myself I would. "You make me feel too," he said, and held out one hand.
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Miriam Were has made outstanding contributions to public health in the developing world. She brings basic medical services to women and children in East Africa.
