Liya Kebede Quotes
The desert loves me. I love the desert. It's nice to be in the heat in Africa. I love it.
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I once tried thinking for an entire day, but I found it less valuable than one moment of study.
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My parents live out in the middle of nowhere, in the middle of this peach orchard. It's actually Peach County, one of the largest peach-growing counties in Georgia. It's very rural, and there is nothing much going on, so I guess that's had a big influence on everything as far as just not having much to do.
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I've already lived one full life, and so now I'm about to endeavor to see what else the good Lord has in store for me, and I'm wide open.
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Don't depend on other people to be responsible for you. Don't make yourself stressed out over nonsensical things like material things.
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Teenagers did not have, before rock 'n' roll and rhythm-and-blues - they did not have any type of music they could call their own once they got over 4 or 5 years old until they were well into their 20's and considered adults.
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I grew up in a working-class Israeli family, which was feminist only in its female-dominated structure.
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Before I go to bed, I brush my teeth and take off all my makeup. I like to use Neutrogena's makeup remover wipes.
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Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.
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I get so nervous before I go on stage that I can never eat very much, so I'm always completely starving afterwards and dying for a bowl of pasta.
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I love it and really, really enjoy weight training. I love free weights. I find it really rewarding.
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Teach For China recruits top American and Chinese college graduates, like 26-year-old Yang Xiao, to teach in the country's most disadvantaged schools.
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What is it that love does to a woman? Without she only sleeps; with it alone, she lives.
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There are certain songs that just stick around and do something that transcends whatever time they were written in. Through different eras, people are able to impart different meaning to the song, and they become part of some sort of consciousness.
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I just wanted to defend football, which is not always easy to do. Those of us who have been in the sport so many years now realise we must protect it and look after it. I was speaking about football, what it means. It is our profession, it has been our lives, and we must take care of it a little.
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Coming from a background of being onstage, you're onstage for two and a half hours and you're in it for the whole time no matter what you're doing. Even if you don't have a line, you have to stay in it.
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Species conversation is beyond a doubt an issue that truly matters to the American public.
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I like to show that I'm real.
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There is no forgiveness in nature.
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With my adult books, for the first six weeks or so, it's about 60 percent ebooks in terms of sales. The kids' books, it's like 5 percent. Which means that the parents, the ones that aren't going into stores now, they're no longer buying books for their kids, which is not great.
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I never drink water. I'm afraid it will become habit-forming.
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I don't care where I sit in terms of hierarchy, box office takings, or any of that stuff.
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It's nice to be known for a pretty great movie.
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I was quite an insomniac. I rarely slept as a child. Having God to talk to at night was nice.
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The desert loves me. I love the desert. It's nice to be in the heat in Africa. I love it.
