Liya Kebede Quotes
I know how much parents love buying clothes for their kids and how they want to give them something new in the closet.
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I have to keep reminding myself: If you give your life to God, he doesn't promise you happiness and that everything will go well. But he does promise you peace. You can have peace and joy, even in bad circumstances.
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Woodstock had a tremendous impact on American artistic life.
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When something happens far back in the past, people often can't recall exact details. Blame depends upon point of view. There may be a villain, but reality is frustrating because it's often ambiguous.
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And then my chance really happened in 1996 when we added the second flight of the tether satellite.
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The brain abhors discrepancies.
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The French are pretty thin-skinned. The few times I mentioned a French writer in 'City Boy,' the relatives would ring up in high dudgeon. I once wrote a mocking review of Marguerite Duras in the 'New York Review of Books,' and good friends of mine in France got very angry.
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Every burn on my body has had its own different personality. And all of them needed different things.
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Just as we might take Darwin as an example of the normal extraverted thinking type, the normal introverted thinking type could be represented by Kant. The one speaks with facts, the other relies on the subjective factor. Darwin ranges over the wide field of objective reality, Kant restricts himself to a critique of knowledge.
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As a legal matter, my mother is an American citizen by birth.
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I'd never written a novel before, and I wrote a novel, and that turned out OK.
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A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.
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I have moved to a smaller house in Paris, and I don't fancy having so much staff now.
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It's hard enough to work and raise a family when your kids are all healthy and relatively normal, but when you add on some kind of disability or disease, it can just be such a burden.
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Native trees are so important to our ecosystem.
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We need to focus on building up our own nation and creating jobs here at home.
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As an editor, I read Charlotte Rogan's amazing debut novel, 'The Lifeboat,' when it was still in manuscript. I read it in one night, and I really wanted my company to publish it, but we lost it to another house. It's such a wonderful combination of beautiful writing and suspenseful storytelling.
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I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my books.
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All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.
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The Civil Rights Movement, it wasn't just a couple of, you know, superstars like Martin Luther King. It was thousands and thousands - millions, I should say - of people taking risks, becoming leaders in their community.
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I want people to know that blood tests alone won't always detect thyroid disease. My blood panels were normal. I think a lot more people have this disease than are diagnosed.
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I'm so grateful. I worked on some really quality projects as a kid and I was really lucky for the opportunities I got.
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Whether football's here or not, I will be fine. I go out, I play to win.
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I know how much parents love buying clothes for their kids and how they want to give them something new in the closet.
