Liya Kebede Quotes

When a woman has her first child in places like Africa, they're really young. They can be 12, 13,14, so their frames are really small, and they're usually malnourished.

Liya Kebede

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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I've been in Parliament since 1983, and I've been involved in many issues over the time.

Jeremy Corbyn

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The live performance aspect of shooting a multicamera sitcom is wonderful. You have that instant audience reaction.

Melissa Rauch

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I was so naive as a kid I used to sneak behind the barn and do nothing.

Johnny Carson

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I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.

Anais Nin

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Audiences want great story telling; it's why white people watch my show 'Black in America.' It's why black people watch 'Latina in America.' All of that is statistically shown and proven but it was because it was good story telling about people who were outsiders.

Soledad O'Brien

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The President regards the Japanese as a brave people; but courage, though useful in time of war, is subordinate to knowledge of arts; hence, courage without such knowledge is not to be highly esteemed.

Townsend Harris

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It's amazing that more people have climbed Mount Everest than have broken the 4-minute mile.

Roger Bannister

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Celebrities have nothing to do with style.

Mickey Drexler

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We all make mistakes, and sometimes the difference that we forget is that the people we read about in the paper and on the Internet and see on TV, behind that is, at its core, a mistake.

Judy Smith

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What's profound and exciting is the way young people are taking advantage of the fact that the Internet enables everyone to have a megaphone. It enables everyone to stand up and say, 'I deserve to be heard, and I demand that you listen.'

Chelsea Clinton

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I tend to feel really protective of songs, and if they aren't sitting well in a record, I'll pull them tight to my chest until I feel it's a better time.

Brandi Carlile

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There is genuine healing in a beautifully crafted musical theatre song, like Stephen Sondheim's 'Losing My Mind,' or a pop music gem like Joni Mitchell's 'Help Me.'

Alice Ripley

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