Liya Kebede Quotes
Doing designs on a loom takes a lot of talent and experience, and, trust me, I won't be able to do that.
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I spend my own money, not other people's money.
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(A Foreign Secretary) is forever poised between the cliche and the indiscretion.
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Elmcrest CC, in Cedar Rapids, is where it all started when I was growing up. The tree-lined course has a very demanding layout that requires you to be accurate off the tee and avoid a number of well-placed water hazards on some of the holes.
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I'd wanted to be famous for as long as I could remember.
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Many are the names of God and infinite the forms through which He may be approached.
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I admit I do have some drawbacks and limitations as a candidate. Although I am a professional comedian, some of my critics maintain that this is not enough. I cannot deny that I stand before you untested and inexperienced - I only spent two years in television, never as a romantic lead or a song and dance man.
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I began to study martial arts because it was a great form of exercise, and I knew it would help my acting career. Martial arts reminded me of dancing. It has helped me learn fight sequences quicker.
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There's a difference between being posh and being rich.
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People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.
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I've always kind of been an in-the-moment kind of person. I don't think that far in advance or have any idea what's around the next corner.
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More and more, cultural groups are cross-pollinating, and we're getting much more interesting art as a result.
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It is always good to explore the stuff you don't agree with, to try and understand a different lifestyle or foreign worldview. I like to be challenged in that way, and always end up learning something I didn't know.
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What I can tell you is that for Puerto Rico being such a small island, it has culturally impacted the entire world.
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I knew that it was my only shot to be taken seriously in the recording industry, because it's fast and broad.
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For many decades, Myanmar was on the receiving end of very public diplomatic scoldings, often backed up by sanctions.
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One of the main lessons I have learned the last five years as Secretary-General is that the United Nations cannot function properly without the support of the business community and civil society. We need to have tripartite support - the governments, the business communities and the civil society.
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I figured out early on what I wanted to do.
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You're always facing the top defenders in this league. To go out there and do your best, that's all you can ask for.
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Everything in Russia is made of cement - phone booths, fence posts and light bulbs.
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It's amazing how someone's IQ seems to double as soon as you give them responsibility and indicate that you trust them.
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I grew up on the Southside of Chicago. What people don't realize is that my father was a multimillionaire who owned 12 hotels, motels, a steel mill, a radio station, a club, nursing home, and a law office. So I think it's safe to say I'm a little above middle class and I'm a daddy's girl.
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Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is like a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle.
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Doing designs on a loom takes a lot of talent and experience, and, trust me, I won't be able to do that.
