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287 Ethiopian Quotes

Always, if you win mentally, you can win physically as well.
Always Win mentally Physically
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Like some high official, you have to tell your brain: 'Do it. Come on. I have to do it.'

High official Your brain Come on Do it
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I'm a runner first before anything else.

Runner first Before anything
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Athletes have to be confident and I am thinking like that.

Athletes Confident Thinking
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For me a day without training is like a day without eating.

A day Training Without eating
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When I had no shoes I was comfortable - I used to run barefoot. When I wore shoes it was difficult. To run in shoes was ok, but at the beginning of my career it was hard.

No shoes Comfortable Run barefoot Difficult
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Why should I say I will retire in three or four years? You retire the very moment you utter those words.

I say Retire Very moment Words
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I can't change everything by myself but I can be one of the people who are trying to change the situation.

Change everything Myself One People
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In my life I do a lot of things but I never forget my training.

My life Things Forget training
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It is not my duty to spend my money in my country, but it is what I want to do. There is nowhere else I would like to invest.
Duty Spend Money Nowhere
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I feel a social responsibility. We need to open people's eyes. There is a lack of education in Ethiopia.

Social responsibility Open People's eyes
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I find the business world hard.

Business world Hard
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I wanted to be famous. I wanted people to talk about me.

Wanted Famous People Talk about
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My father didn't think running was sensible. He told me running is just wasting time.

My father Running Sensible Wasting time
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First, do enough training. Then believe in yourself and say: I can do it. Tomorrow is my day. And then say: the person in front of me, he is just a human being as well; he has two legs, I have two legs, that is all. That is mentally how you prepare.

Enough training Believe Yourself Mentality
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You know for me when I promise something I want to deliver. If you don't, you have to disappear.

Promise something Deliver Disappear
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If your body is damaged, wounded, it can be fixed, but if inside, mentally, you are wounded you cannot fix it, it's hard.

Your body Damaged Wounded Mentally
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That is not enough. Sport has been great for me, a great learning place that if you want to achieve you can, even if you are from the poorest part of Africa.

Sport Great Place Want
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Since I achieved something, running has exploded in my country. For me sometimes it is difficult even to know who the athletes are who are competing at the highest level. There are thousands.

Achieved something Running Exploded Country
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I think if you come first with a new world record, that is the best.

Think Come first World record Best
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At the moment I am a little bit politician, yes. I think that could be my next step. It is not because I want power, it is because of what I think I could do for the people.

Politician Next step Want power
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Eradicate poverty. This is all that matters in my country. When I am out training I think about this a lot; when I am running it is going over in my mind. As a country we cannot move forward until we eradicate poverty.

Eradicate poverty Matters Country Training
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I love using rice as a flour; I'll grind roasted rice and dip fish in that. It gives a beautiful, crunchy texture.

Beautiful Dip Fish Flour
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Like all food, whether you're talking about Persian food, or Chinese food, or Swedish food, it's always a reflection of wars, trading, a bunch of good and a bunch of bad. But what's left is always the food story.

About Always Bad Bunch
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We know so much about the European food story, and we're getting to know about the American food story; but we know so little about the African food story.

About African American European
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I don't have memories of Ethiopia as a child. I didn't learn about Ethiopian culture until after I moved to New York and started meeting people from the Ethiopian community.

About After Child Community
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As an adopted person, once you find out about that 'other' side of yourself, it's almost like you find out who you really are.

About Adopted Almost Find
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Most of my education has been around food.

Around Been Education Food
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Food has always been in my life. Being born in Ethiopia, where there was a lack of food, and then really cooking with my grandmother Helga in Sweden. And my grandmother Helga was a cook's cook.

Always Been Being Born
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To become a good cook is to know yourself, and I, at this point, know myself. I know myself, and I know the cook I want to be and the cook I am striving to be.

Am Become Cook Good
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Criticism is part of the creative man's journey, and I appreciate it.

Appreciate Creative Criticism Journey
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I stand behind everything I've done.
Behind Done Everything Stand
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I'm an American chef. I'm American. I live here. I love being here. But, of course, it is different. A black man's journey is different.

American Being Black Chef
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You have to balance, but you can be aggressive as a chef. It benefits the food. You have to be passionate. You can't be angry cooking.

Aggressive Angry Balance Benefits
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There shouldn't be an announcement that divides our food between what tastes good and what is good for us.

Announcement Between Divides Food
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If it's done really well, you don't want big portions because you think, 'That was so fulfilling. I'm not stuffed. I feel great.'

Because Big Done Feel
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Healthy can be the new good. Eating delicious should not be sacrificed because it's healthy.

Because Delicious Eating Good
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I think it's very expensive to not eat healthy. Eating healthy is the only affordable option we have left.

Affordable Eat Eating Expensive
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I started cooking for the love of cooking, and I am going to keep cooking whether there's a celebrity aspect to it or not.

Am Aspect Celebrity Cooking
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I feel like there's a lot of tasks in cooking that I want to master, that I want to do better.

Better Cooking Feel Like
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I love having a croissant and a great cup of coffee. Just one cup.

Coffee Cup Great Having
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I want people to understand my journey and to be inspired by that. You can be an immigrant, and if you work really hard, you can have your own restaurant.
Hard Immigrant Inspired Journey
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Every time you use the word 'healthy,' you lose. The key is to make yummy, delicious food that happens to be healthy.

Delicious Every Food Happens
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I don't distinguish the music I listen to from great music - it's just music. There shouldn't be an announcement that divides our food between what tastes good and what is good for us.
Announcement Between Distinguish Divides
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Each city should have its own type of restaurant.

City Each Own Restaurant
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I can take a lot of pride that I can launch cookbooks and there's an audience out there that supports that.

Audience Cookbooks Launch Lot
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I think the kitchen is the new garage. And I think for a guy that wants to go out and be an evolved person, he should know about his local favorite restaurant. He should know how to cook something.

About Cook Evolved Favorite
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I love Thanksgiving because it's a holiday that is centered around food and family, two things that are of utmost importance to me.
Around Because Centered Family
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Being an Ethiopian-born, Swedish-raised chef, there's nothing traditional about my Thanksgiving spread.

About Being Chef Nothing
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Cooking turkey every year doesn't have to be monotonous - I want people to always mix it up using different spices and preparations.

Always Cooking Different Every
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