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287 Ethiopian Quotes

I had a very peripatetic childhood, so I bounced around. Lived in Ethiopia until I was, like, three or four and then lived between Ireland and London.

Around Between Childhood Ethiopia
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I trained, went to college, trained, and got a job. Then got another job. When I wasn't working I worked at a bar, then got another job.

Another Bar College Got
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I think if you don't risk something in art, it's not really important.

Art Important Really Risk
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I've met loads of black and brown and various people who are well into comics.

Black Brown Comics Loads
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I've always been very talkative, very chatty, quite hyperactive. I grew up with a lot of cousins, and most of them were boys. Four in particular and I were the demolition squad. Havoc.

Always Been Boy Cousins
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I think if we don't understand history, if we don't keep referring back to it, we become complacent. And complacency, as we all know, it leads to repeating history.

Back Become Complacency Complacent
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What I have wanted to do is take roles that are unexpected for people who look like me. Roles that the establishment would say, 'Oh, she couldn't possibly be that.'
Establishment Like Look Me
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The idea that you must treat actors a certain way in order to get a performance out of them kind of disturbs me, and it's disregarding what we do. Our job is to do our job.

Actor Certain CertainWay Get
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You can suffer for your art, and you can make your own self suffer for your art. You don't need anyone else to do it for you.

Anyone Art Else Make
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I work best when there's a safety trampoline of kindness.
Best Kindness Safety Trampoline
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I love the Greeks. There's no messing around - it's all do or die with them.

Around Die Greeks Love
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Diversity needs to operate on every level. It's great that the Oscars have highlighted it, but black actors getting nominated shouldn't be the only result. There's so much more that needs to be done.

Actor Black Diversity Done
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I was an attention seeker, always in trouble.

Always Attention Seeker Trouble
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The good thing about auditioning is that you get to test yourself and see if you can play this character - you're also auditioning yourself.

About Also Auditioning Character
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Stories about race and identity pique my interest for obvious reasons. That's in my body, my brain, my history, my memories - it's all part of my toolbox as an actor.

About Actor Body Brain
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I'm all for philosophical debates about race, but if you look at history, you see that the status quo has power when it's unchallenged. So these conversations about inequality are crucial.

About Conversations Crucial Debates
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We need to have a conversation about the fact that black faces are not as visible as they should be, that there is huge inequality everywhere in terms of race.

About Black Conversation Everywhere
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People have always made assumptions about me. I become very territorial about my identity because it's been hijacked by so many people with their own projections.

About Always Assumptions Because
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I don't trust anyone who doesn't change their mind.

Anyone Change Mind Trust
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I think a lot of actors feel like outsiders or miscreants. This profession provides an opportunity to play out all the different parts of ourselves.

Actor Different Feel Like
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The more you know about yourself, excel at the work you do and understand the world you live in, the more you realize how nothing worthwhile in life comes without a fight and a lot of patience.

You know About yourself Excel Work
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…We are who we are through our connections and the people around us.

We are Connections People Around us
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Trust women, that is the first step in making room for them.

Trust women Fist step Making room
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Leadership is an attitude and starts with paying attention to your environment and having a sense of responsibility. You can nurture this wherever you are.

Leadership An attitude Paying attention Environment
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If the current change in Ethiopia is headed equally by both men and women, it can sustain its momentum and realise a prosperous Ethiopia free of religious, ethnic and gender discrimination.

Current charge Headed equally Its Momentum
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When there is no peace in the country, mothers will be frustrated. Therefore, we need to work on peace for the sake of our mothers.

No peace Mothers Be frustrated Work on
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…If the history of Africa was written by Africans and by women Africans, I think we would find many unsung heroes. But that’s not enough.

The history Women Unsung heroes
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Examples of integrated aquaculture exist combining small-scale livestock keeping, vegetable growing and fish ponds.

Examples Integrated agriculture Small scale Livestock keeping
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Stranded assets are insufficiently researched from the perspective of developing regions such as Africa.

Stranded assets Insufficiently researched Perspective Developing regions
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Angola’s economy is mainly driven by its oil sector, yet it imports up to 80 % of refined petroleum products for domestic consumption.

Economy Mainly driven Oil sector Import
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African countries cannot delay in managing risks and costs will escalate if strategies are not in place.

Countries Cannot delay Managing risk Costs
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An emerging risk for Africa is stranded assets,stranding can endanger the continent‘social and economic fortunes and reverse current gains.

Emerging risk Stranded assets Can endanger Continent's social
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African countries lack the infrastructure to simply switch overnight to cleaner fuels and technologies

Countries lack The infrastructure Simply switch Cleaner fuels
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Land is the basis of human livelihoods. Land is identity. Land is heritage. Land is resource. Land is survival. If we ignore this, we do so at our peril.

Land Human livelihood Identity Heritage
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Indigenous communities are effective stewards of sustainable land management. They are part of the solution.

Indigenous communities Effective stewards Land management
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Land degradation including desertification is affecting populations in dry lands especially in the Sahel - making ecology, economy and people more vulnerable.

Land degradation Desertification Affecting populations Dry lands
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Land is already struggling due to human activities. But, we can change things if we see land as a huge resource for both adaptation and mitigation to climate change impacts.

Land Already Human activities Change things
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There are many areas of convergence between developing countries and the developed world.

Many areas Convergence Between Developing countries
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Adaptation is not the preserve of poor countries. Partnership makes sense, if only, from the perspective of enlightened self interest.

Adaptation Preserve Poor countries Partnership
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Soil infertility is a key driver of poverty and can affect food systems and food security in quite extraordinary ways.

Soil infertility Key driver Poverty Food systems
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Millions of people in Africa tend to rely on livelihoods that are influenced by timely and accurate climate information.

Millions People Livelihoods Influenced
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Innovation is critical to optimizing the health and wealth of our oceans.
Innovation Critical Optimizing Health
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Partnerships are key for an efficient digital economy.

Partnerships Are key Efficient Digital economy
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ICT can help deliver on ocean conservation and sustainable development through satellite monitoring.

Can help Deliver Ocean conservation Sustainable development
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We’re in the struggle of a lifetime, trying to combat COVID19, but only together will we end it.

The struggle A lifetime To combat Only together
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On Mandela Day, I am using the opportunity to remind us all of Madiba’s wisdom:“It always seems impossible until it is done”.It’s never too late to turn around the COVID19 situation, but we all need to push hard with the courage and commitment we learned from him.Together.

The opportunity Remind us Wisdom Seems impossible
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If we fail to address the wider impacts of COVID19, we risk an even greater crisis than the one caused by the virus itself.
We fail Address Wider impacts We risk
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In recognizing the incredible contribution of health workers in the fight against COVID19. We all owe them an enormous debt, not just because they have cared for the sick, but for risking their own lives in the line of duty.

In recognizing Incredible contribution Health workers Fight against
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Happy birthday to Chancellor Merkel! We thank her so much for her inspirational leadership and especially for her strong focus on global health. Health is a political choice and she is leading by example.

Happy birthday Thank her Inspirational leadership Strong focus
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Children missing out on routine vaccination due to COVID19 could lead to far greater avoidable suffering and death than the pandemic itself.

Children Missing out Routine vaccination Far greater
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