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287 Ethiopian Quotes

There are so many times there could have been a left turn instead of a right turn in all people's lives. I think mine are pretty crystal clear, because of being adopted, being born in Ethiopia, being adopted to Sweden.

Adopted Because Been Being
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I've been lucky to travel and work all over the world through the lens of the back of the house, and I love that monocle. I love that lens, because it's real people.
Back Because Been House
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The food business is very tough, but there's also a lot of love and very giving.

Also Business Food Giving
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It's fascinating when you're from another place, but you don't speak the language.

Another Fascinating Language Place
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My father loved to take us on historical vacations, and you should have seen the stares we received in East Berlin.

Berlin East Father Historical
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Oatmeal is a cheap and healthy breakfast.
Breakfast Cheap Healthy Oatmeal
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If you get hungry mid-day, a banana is the best snack at your desk, after a workout, or in between classes. Fruit is a very good snack in general.

After Banana Best Between
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Salad can get a bad rap. People think of bland and watery iceberg lettuce, but in fact, salads are an art form, from the simplest rendition to a colorful kitchen-sink approach.

Approach Art Bad Bland
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Whether you're on a diet, or you're looking for a go-to one bowl dinner recipe, salads should be thought of as crowd-pleasers, not a dreaded component of a meal.

Bowl Component Diet Dinner
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Although I believe affection and romance should be shown all year around, it's always smart to have a good plan up your sleeve for Valentine's Day.

Affection Although Always Around
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I love chicken. But, like a lot of chefs and cooks, I get tired of preparing it the same way.

Chefs Chicken Cooks Get
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Simple ingredients can be used to make elegant dishes with just a little extra attention to detail.

Attention Detail Dishes Elegant
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Childhood nutrition and healthy eating is a cause that is extremely close to my heart.
Cause Childhood Close Eating
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Let the fresh fruits and vegetables be your guide, and make something that will keep for the whole week.

Fresh Fruits Guide Keep
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I'm a firm believer that people find their own passions.

Believer Find Firm Own
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I learned at a young age what chasing flavors meant, and I've been doing that my whole life.

Age Been Chasing Doing
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Packing lunches and going over menus is a great way to make small changes in the way your kids eat.

Changes Eat Going Great
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For many of us, clean water is so plentiful and readily available that we rarely, if ever, pause to consider what life would be like without it.

Available Clean Consider Ever
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Spices, of course, are essential.
Course Essential Spices
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When you are already eating as cheaply and meagerly as possible, any raise in cost can quickly plunge you and your family into hunger.

Any Cheaply Cost Eating
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People might not protest for overtly political or social causes, but when they can't feed themselves and their family, they will take to the streets.

Causes Family Feed Might
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The reasons for food insecurity are many and varied. But part of the problem is the global farming systems.

Farming Food Global Insecurity
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I grew up in a lot of different places, so I pick up accents pretty quickly.
Accents Different Grew Lot
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When you work with directors who really love actors, who love their contribution, it feels amazing. But sometimes when you work with directors, you feel like you're in the way.

Actor Amazing Contribution Directors
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I am not hugely famous; I am not a name. For me, it's not the size of the role, it's the material and the people you are working with.

Am Famous Hugely Material
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I grew up in an area of Ireland where there weren't many black or mixed-race children. But I never had any hassle; maybe I've blocked it out, but I don't think so.

Any Area Black Blocked
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I like connecting with people, and that's what good art is: a point of connection. There's nothing better, on stage or on film.

Art Better Connecting Connection
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I didn't become an actor to make money. And I didn't become an actor to be famous - though people always gasp if you say that, as if it's unfathomable that an actor doesn't want to be a star.

Actor Always Become Famous
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Ninety percent of my roles, I've had to fight for. It's only a really small percentage of people who get handed roles.

Fight Get Had Handed
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I'm interested in the idea that we all start off as these lovely little babies with all this potential but that circumstances mean that we don't always live the life we should.

Always Babies Circumstances Idea
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My job as an artist is to speak up for those who might be perceived as the losers. Or those who can't shout. No wonder public-school people always get into politics or acting: they're taught to shout that much more loudly.

Acting Always Artist Get
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Bette Davis is my hero. I'm obsessed with her. I base everything I do on her.
Base Bette Davis Everything
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I know I've said it before in interviews, but the idea that all actors have their eye on some sort of prize - it being an Oscar, or fame, or whatever - not all actors I know are like that.

Actor Before Being Eye
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I didn't have that many black people in my life, so I had to sort of search them out. And I didn't grow up in America, but I identified as much with their writing about the black experience as I did with their writing about the human experience.

About America Black Did
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I'm always very careful to say I'm Irish-Ethiopian because I feel Ethiopian and I look Ethiopian and I am Ethiopian. But there are 81 languages in Ethiopia, and I don't know any of them.

Always Am Any Because
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I become very territorial about my identity because it's been hijacked by so many people with their own projections.

About Because Become Been
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I don't like hobbies. I read and travel and see my friends before they disown me.

Before Friends Hobbies Like
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I have not been aggressive in my pursuit of being a star. I've never had a plan. Maybe I need to be more aggressive, because it's quite tough!

Aggressive Because Been Being
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You know when you're a kid and you get to pick a movie every Friday? I watched everything. There's no particular genre that was appealing. I just loved the idea that you could dress up and play.

Appealing Could Dress Every
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I've always had sort of an interest in American history, full stop, and especially people who contributed to the civil rights struggle.
Always American Civil Full
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Women always have to have this soft, maternal, sort of - I don't know - moral center.
Always Center Know Maternal
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I don't know why women aren't allowed to have the same sort of breadth and scope and flaws of men.

Allowed Breadth Flaws Know
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Violence in film and television is an ongoing conversation, and I like eavesdropping on it, but I'm never sure what my opinion is. I like watching creative violence, but I don't know.

Conversation Creative Eavesdropping Film
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I don't really know how strong someone is if they're compelled to a life of violence. Is that strong? No. That's damaged.

Compelled Damaged How Know
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When you connect to someone on a human level, and you get to know about them, you can begin to love the things that make them different.

About Begin Connect Different
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My favorite film is 'All About Eve'.

About Eve Favorite Film
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I use the term 'spine' for people when I think that they may seem on the surface sort of reticent, shy, self-deprecating, shying away from the spotlight. Quiet.

Away May People Quiet
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People ask me where I'm from. I say Ireland, and they are like 'Really? You don't look Irish.' Then you have to explain... people are intrigued, but sometimes you think, 'Why do I have to tell my whole story every time I open my mouth?

Ask Every Explain Intrigued
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My family very much adored me, and at school, I was an object of fascination.

Adored Family Fascination Me
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I was moved by the 'Lovings' story because of my own background as a mixed-race person.

Background Because Moved Own
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