Leymah Gbowee Quotes

Leadership is standing with your people. People say you have to live to fight another day, but sometimes you have to show you are a true leader.

Leymah Gbowee

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Author Biography

  • Author Profession: activist
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  • Birth: February 1, 1972

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I had always had a dream to open up a boutique of some sort.

Joanna Gaines

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As a proud Catholic, I know the impact that faith-based education can have in our society and have witnessed it first hand in my district.

Joe Baca

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Christians, like slaves and soldiers, ask no questions.

Jerry Falwell

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I really want to thank the whole Phoenix-Scottsdale-Glendale area. It's been a wonderful home for WWE for years.

John Cena

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I was born on 7 September 1917 at Sydney in Australia. My father was English-born and a graduate of Oxford; my mother, born Hilda Eipper, was descended from a German minister of religion who settled in New South Wales in 1832. I was the second of four children.

John Cornforth

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As a young girl, I was too intent on getting to London and drama school and out of east Yorkshire to think about winning Oscars. I did win a Bafta once, and was so unprepared for it I jabbered on for a minute - a minute too long.

Anna Maxwell Martin

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I don't think success is harmful, as so many people say. Rather, I believe it indispensable to talent, if for nothing else than to increase the talent.

Jeanne Moreau

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No, actually 'The Host' was totally a palate-cleanser for me. I wanted to do something a little bit different than romantic love. Romantic love is in there, obviously, because I enjoy writing about that and living it a lot.

Stephenie Meyer

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Sometimes breaking the rules is extending the rules.

Mary Oliver

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I used to like writing for comedians - I enjoyed the challenge of making other people funny.

Denis Norden

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I'm always doing comedy and will never hit up a 9-to-5 desk job.

Brandon T. Jackson

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I gave up my base in popular culture when I left the Tonight Show.

Branford Marsalis

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