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.

  

  Xun Kuang
  • Thinking
  • Day
  • Study

• 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.

  

  Washed Out
  • Live
  • Parents
  • Growing

• 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.

  

  Valerie Simpson
  • Life
  • Good
  • Me

• Don't depend on other people to be responsible for you. Don't make yourself stressed out over nonsensical things like material things.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • People
  • You
  • Yourself

• 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.

  

  Sam Phillips
  • Music
  • Rock
  • Old

• I grew up in a working-class Israeli family, which was feminist only in its female-dominated structure.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Up
  • Family
  • Feminist

• Before I go to bed, I brush my teeth and take off all my makeup. I like to use Neutrogena's makeup remover wipes.

  

  Maddie Ziegler
  • Makeup
  • Bed
  • Teeth

• Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.

  

  Queen Victoria
  • Calm
  • Events
  • Quiet

• 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.

  

  Samantha Bond
  • Never
  • Dying
  • Pasta

• I love it and really, really enjoy weight training. I love free weights. I find it really rewarding.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Free
  • Training
  • Enjoy

• 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.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • Country
  • American
  • College

• What is it that love does to a woman? Without she only sleeps; with it alone, she lives.

  

  Ovid
  • Love
  • Woman
  • For Her

• 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.

  

  Beck
  • People
  • Time
  • Different

• Reggie Jackson hit one off me that's still burrowing its way to Los Angeles.

  

  Dan Quisenberry
  • Way
  • Hit
  • Los Angeles

• 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.

  

  Vicente del Bosque
  • Football
  • Care
  • Easy

• 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.

  

  Aaron Tveit
  • Time
  • You
  • Doing

• Species conversation is beyond a doubt an issue that truly matters to the American public.

  

  Ian Somerhalder
  • American
  • Doubt
  • Conversation

• To be honest, the core reason why I became an actor was that I didn't want to go to school. That's where it started. I hated opening my history books and my English books, but then, of course, you grow older. I went to film school in New York, and that's when you really realize that you have to grow up now. It's not child's play anymore.

  

  Ranbir Kapoor
  • Up
  • School
  • Why

• There's going to be a Google or a Facebook or a Zynga every three to five years. Those are really big ideas that do return substantial amounts of money.

  

  Dave McClure
  • Money

• As for the stage fright, it never goes away. When I'm waiting in the wings to go on, it's agony every single time but I stay focused and I know that once I'm on stage it'll be fine; I'll be in my happy little bubble.

  

  Britt Ekland
  • Time
  • Happy
  • Single

• With the disintegration of all that Nietzsche had revered, existence, to him, had become a desert in which only one thing remained, namely that which had relentlessly forced him into this path: truthfulness that knows no limits and is not subject to any condition.

  

  Karl Jaspers
  • Path
  • Desert

• People are nice enough, but you can hear the giant tick of the second hand. People are so harried.

  

  David Ogden Stiers
  • People
  • Nice
  • Hand

• I don't have a dark side as far as there is, like, murder in my past, but yeah, I think I'm a pretty nice, easygoing guy.

  

  Bobby Moynihan
  • Guy
  • Pretty
  • Past

• The desert loves me. I love the desert. It's nice to be in the heat in Africa. I love it.

  

  Liya Kebede
  • Nice
  • Desert