Ahmed Ben Bella Quotes
Yes, I am Algerian of Moroccan origin through my parents, but all my life is Algeria. I was born there.
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Around a third of parents still worry that they will look like a bad mother or father if their child has a mental health problem. Parenting is hard enough without letting prejudices stop us from asking for the help we need for ourselves and our children.
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If you start lifting weights, you will expect to put weight on, as muscle is heavier than fat. But you have to look more at your body shape - you will get heavier - but you might get smaller and heavier at the same time, which is fine. And it doesn't really matter what you weigh as long as you are happy with your shape and size!
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I found out early in life that I could hit a baseball farther than most players, and that's what I tried to do.
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I read the Steve Jobs book, and that kind of changed everything. I've been, like, an Apple geek my whole life and have always seen him as a hero. But reading the book, and learning about how he built the company, and maintaining that corporate culture and all that, I think that influenced me a lot.
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The divorce was the toughest thing in my life. It still hurts.
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Let me tell you something - being thought of as a beautiful woman has spared me nothing in life. No heartache, no trouble. Love has been difficult. Beauty is essentially meaningless and it is always transitory.
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I've received many good pieces of advice throughout my life.
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In life, sometimes you just lose.
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Because my parents are Indian, everybody speaks Hindi to me, and I have no idea what they are saying.
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When I was growing up as a little girl and as a teenager, I loved designing and making dogs' clothes and wanting to be a fashion designer. I took art and ceramics. I loved dance.
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I loved my life, but my choices were overloading and overwhelming me. Listening to inner feelings and fulfilling some of these urges when they come along is incredibly important.
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We weren't dirt poor, but there was no spare money kicking around. While it was very much understood that the way to a better life was through education, books were a luxury we couldn't afford. But when I was six, we actually moved opposite the central library, and that became my home from home.
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When your life is being threatened there's an instinctive urge to fight. You fight for the time you have, for your relationships.
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My mission in life is to preserve craftsmanship.
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If you work hard in real life, people tend to get in your way - either from inertia or prejudice - and they stop you achieving things. It's the worst thing about real life compared with sports, where you generally get what you deserve: if you're the fastest guy, you win; there are no other games being played.
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People, in whatever walk of life, would be surprised if they just gave themselves a chance by believing in what they are.
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If we live good lives, the times are also good. As we are, such are the times.
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I actually have more respect for people who are in the closet. You end up exposing so much of yourself because you have to talk about your sexual life. You shouldn't have to talk about it.
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My parents are actors and never brought work home. I didn't even know what they did until I was about 10 years old. We never talked about it.
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A man who lacks reliability is utterly useless.
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Being Peruvian means to come from the farthest place possible to get to Europe. Peru is the land of the Incas. It was the capital of South America; it was where the Spanish founded their empire and took over the Inca Empire and made it into a colony of Spain.
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Yes, I am Algerian of Moroccan origin through my parents, but all my life is Algeria. I was born there.
