Liya Kebede Quotes

Traveling around Ethiopia, I saw dozens of abandoned textile factories. People kept asking me to help them find work. So I thought I could make use of my experience in fashion to commercialize their products outside of Ethiopia.

Liya Kebede

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: model
  • Nationality: ethiopian
  • Birth: March 1, 1978

Topics

WorkExperiencePeopleMeFashion

In Africa, you can make three acres sustainable relatively easily, but 50,000 acres? It's not about picking up towels or sleeping in a tent.

Jochen Zeitz

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I'm building Segera to promote a different way of doing tourism.

Jochen Zeitz

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Shaping the future is what drives me. Since I left politics, I'm very much interested in emerging markets.

Jenny Shipley

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When I first started writing comics, in the way-back days, Typhoid Mary was my explosive response to women characters in comics - I made her an innocent virginal type, a clever, dark, liberated woman, and as Bloody Mary, a feminist bent of punishing men - all in one character. She was an instinctual rather than a calculated creation.

Ann Nocenti

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The future, according to some scientists, will be exactly like the past, only far more expensive.

John Sladek

FuturePastWillMoreExpensiveFar

America is the most grandiose experiment the world has seen, but, I am afraid, it is not going to be a success.

Sigmund Freud

SuccessI AmWorldAmericaAfraid

I think life should be easier as you get older and not more difficult. And Ritchie is too difficult a person for me to deal with, because I like to have control of my own life.

Ronnie James Dio

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There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.

Michel de Montaigne

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When times are good, a CEO should remain poised and composed. When times are difficult, a CEO should remain poised and composed.

Judy Smith

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When I was a kid, I really loved game shows. For whatever reason, I was fascinated with them and watched them a ton.

Jason Blum

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I got hooked on 'All Things Considered.'

Jason Robards

ThingsGotAll ThingsHooked

The Filipino embraces civilization and lives and thrives in every clime, in contact with every people.

Jose Rizal

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