Liya Kebede Quotes

I actually started modeling in Ethiopia, because that's where I grew up, and I started out by just doing little fashion shows for school, and I liked it so much that I started pursuing it.

Liya Kebede

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

SchoolFashionDoingModelingOut

If one has fear, there can be no initiative in the creative sense of the word. To have initiative in this sense is to do something original - to do it spontaneously, naturally, without being guided, forced, controlled. It is to do something which you love to do.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

LoveFearCreativeYouInitiative

If I could chat with anyone, it would be Claire Messud, because I think she could tell me how to get better as a writer as I age.

Jesmyn Ward

AgeMeThinkBetterSheTell

If you think about what acting is supposed to be, my job is to disappear.

Anna Deavere Smith

JobThinkYouActingDisappear

While most know the young Stalin was a seminarian, few realize that he was also a Georgian patriot, a published romantic poet.

Simon Sebag Montefiore

RomanticKnowYoungPatriotRealize

Well the truth is, Republicans didn't just lose a few elections, we lost our way.

Mike Pence

TruthTruth IsLoseLostWayWell

Understand that sexuality is as wide as the sea. Understand that your morality is not law. Understand that we are you. Understand that if we decide to have sex whether safe, safer, or unsafe, it is our decision and you have no rights in our lovemaking.

Derek Jarman

SeaDecisionLawYouSexUnderstand

In most kung fu films, they want to create a hero who's always fighting a bad guy. In the story of Ip Man, he's not fighting physical opponents. He's fighting the ups and downs of his life.

Wong Kar-wai

LifeHeroManStoryUps And Downs

You don't have to be poor to need something or somebody.

Willie Nelson

YouPoorNeedSomethingSomebody

I want a chainsaw very badly, because I think cutting down a tree would be unbelievably satisfying. I have asked for a chainsaw for my birthday, but I think I'll probably be given jewelry instead.

Susan Orlean

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I want people who see my watches to go, 'Wow!' And the more they look at them, the more they go into it, the more I want them to say, 'Wow!' I work on a razor blade between gimmickry and amazement.

Richard Mille

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The problem lies with us: we've become addicted to experts. We've become addicted to their certainty, their assuredness, their definitiveness, and in the process, we have ceded our responsibility, substituting our intellect and our intelligence for their supposed words of wisdom.

Noreena Hertz

WisdomResponsibilityIntelligenceUs

Both cheap value stocks and more glamorous growth stocks can work well in a portfolio - if done right.

Kenneth Fisher

WorkGrowthValueDoneMoreRight

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