Adwoa Aboah Quotes
Fear has run rampant amongst our community of models. Far too many young models, both women and men, are mistreated and put at risk.
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The intelligence community really is a vast bureaucratic entity, and it has been politicized in ways that are not effective for the gathering of intelligence and giving it to senior policymakers.
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The fear that individuality will be crushed out by the growing 'tyranny' of standardization is the sort of myth which cannot withstand the briefest examination.
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Everyone in Hollywood is seeking fame and fortune; it's in the water here. Everyone from young women to old men - they all want it.
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Eddie Conway is central to my first memories. My parents used to take me to, when it was open, the Baltimore city penitentiary to see Eddie Conway - I was talking to my dad about this recently - from the time I might have been one or two years old. I mean, literally, my first memories are of black men in jail, specifically of Eddie Conway.
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Men and women have roles - their roles are different, but their rights are equal.
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A skilful leech is better far, than half a hundred men of war.
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It's really kind of hard to be a suburb of nothing. If you don't have a downtown, you really don't have anything. It's hard to build a community around parking lots and subdivisions.
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I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved.
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Why do women get paid less money? It doesn't make any sense.
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My favorite 'Mister Rogers' episodes were always the ones where Mr. Rogers would go into the community.
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Women can be two different people - one person at home, another at work.
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My motivation for being a good drummer was born out of fear, which, in a way, seems so antithetical to what art should be.
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Myself and David, we both love art. We have a lot of respect for Damien Hirst and Julian Schnabel, and we've met them both, and they're very interesting characters. I also have a lot of respect for the working women out there. As you know, it's not easy when you're looking after children and you have a career as well.
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I'm the only girl out of three children. I have two younger brothers. I've grown up around boys and men my whole life. I get them. I get men.
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I think there's a difference between a gamble and a calculated risk.
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Even if I wouldn't wear something myself, I think I know how women feel, how women want to look. I can really relate to women, I get on very well with women... Some women don't. I want to empower women, make women feel the best version of themselves.
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Victoria's Secret is really about celebrating women and what they stand for: the strength.
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With less competition to fear, companies are emboldened to raise their mark-ups and profits. That lifts share prices and thus the wealth of already wealthy shareholders.
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I moderated a panel focusing just on women and the specific challenges that women entrepreneurs face. And we found that around the world, the challenges are the same, whether it is gaining access to capital, risk-taking, or the ability to expand beyond a small business and grow.
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Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all.
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I know what I'm going to write for the next three years. It's frustrating, because if I get a good new idea, I have to put it aside.
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Consumers get used to reading and understanding their credit card contracts, their mortgages, their check overdraft agreements, those are good things. That puts power back in the hands of consumers.
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Fear has run rampant amongst our community of models. Far too many young models, both women and men, are mistreated and put at risk.
