Liya Kebede Quotes

President Obama has made maternal health one of the core priorities of U.S. international aid funding.

Liya Kebede

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

HealthPrioritiesPresidentCoreAid

You'd never play Hamlet if you started worrying about who's played it before you.

Matthew Macfadyen

YouPlayNeverStartedWorrying

I am a very private person. I still get shy at times.

Amy Weber

I AmPersonShyGetPrivate Person

The nature of the movies is different than it was five years ago, and they're all driven by the possibilities of CGI, which means you can make anything happen on screen that you can possibly desire.

Tom Hanks

NaturePossibilitiesYouDesire

But it really wasn't until three to four years later, when we had an opportunity in the lab to make very detailed observations, and comparisons with other fossil discoveries, that we realized she was a new species of human ancestor.

Donald Johanson

OpportunityNewThreeHumanSheLab

Look, we want freedom and we want liberty in this country. But we've also got to have the guts to stand up and run a tight ship in America. Morality is now a word that many people consider very square and outdated. But if we don't stand up for it, we deserve what we will get in the end - unprincipled anarchy.

Cliff Robertson

FreedomPeopleStand UpShipEnd

Whatever creativity is, it is in part a solution to a problem.

Brian Aldiss

CreativityProblemSolutionWhatever

Rigondeaux was Cuba's answer to Bobby Fischer who transformed into a kind of Lee Harvey Oswald traitorous creature in that society. He escaped on a smuggler's boat and toppled one of the best fighters in the world in 2013 with his obliteration of Nonito Donaire at Radio City Music Hall. He made it look so easy, his career has never recovered.

Brin-Jonathan Butler

MusicBestCityWorldSocietyBoat

In our lifetime, we're going to see fifty percent of the world's species go extinct. We're already seeing this radical rise in the world's temperature that was predicted.

Anohni

WorldSeeingRiseGoSeeFifty

I try to get to the beach every day. It brings sanity to my life. I'll just sit and read a book and enjoy the quiet.

Audrina Patridge

LifeBeachDayBookMy LifeEnjoy

Well, capitalism is a big problem, because with capitalism you're just going to keep buying and selling things until there's nothing else to buy and sell, which means gobbling up the planet.

Alice Walker

CapitalismProblemYouSellingBig

Things are not always as they seem; the first appearance deceives many.

Phaedrus

AppearanceFirstAlwaysThingsSeem

The 1930s birthed two great agrarian novels: 'Gone with the Wind' from the viewpoint of the ruling class, 'The Grapes of Wrath' for the underclass. And both were turned into movies that dared to be true to the books' controversial themes.

Richard Corliss

GreatWindBe TrueMoviesTrueGone

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