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You have to fight to reach your dream. You have to sacrifice and work hard for it.

Dream Fight Hard Reach
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It is important for me that I represent a brand that reflects my personality.

Brand Important Me Personality
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I think, first of all, every time you want to play somebody who is real is always challenging and always scary, because you are given a responsibility of someone's real life.

Always Because Challenging Every
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What I love most about Mother's Day is that I am acknowledged and honored for being a mother.

About Acknowledged Am Being
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There is not so helpless and pitiable an object in the world as a landsman beginning a sailor's life.

Beginning Helpless Pitiable Object
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I'm a mom. I'm from Ethiopia. I gave birth in the U.S. and had all the proper care available to me. If I had given birth in Ethiopia - I don't know if I might have even survived it.

Available Birth Care Ethiopia
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Traveling around Ethiopia, I saw dozens of abandoned textile factories. People kept asking me to help them find work. So I thought I could make use of my experience in fashion to commercialize their products outside of Ethiopia.

Abandoned Around Asking Could
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While I was pregnant, I had dozens of checkups. They covered everything from blood tests to ultrasounds, and I even had the option of attending birthing classes with my husband.

Attending Blood Classes Covered
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Monterey, as far as my observation goes, is decidedly the pleasantest and most civilized-looking place in California.

Observation California Decidedly Civilized
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Miriam Were has made outstanding contributions to public health in the developing world. She brings basic medical services to women and children in East Africa.

Africa Basic Brings Children
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I know how much parents love buying clothes for their kids and how they want to give them something new in the closet.

Buying Closet Clothes Give
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Doing designs on a loom takes a lot of talent and experience, and, trust me, I won't be able to do that.

Able Designs Doing Experience
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A small gold plain cross was passed down from my grandma to my mom, then to me, and now to my daughter. It is always nice to own something that connects you to the women who made it possible for you to exist.

Always Connects Cross Daughter
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Take good care of your skin and hydrate. If you have good skin, everything else will fall into place.

Care Else Everything Everything Else
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First I became U.N. Goodwill Ambassador for WHO, and that was in 2005. And then, about a year or so later, I decided to start my foundation.

About About A Year Ambassador Became
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I actually started modeling in Ethiopia, because that's where I grew up, and I started out by just doing little fashion shows for school, and I liked it so much that I started pursuing it.

Actually Because Doing Ethiopia
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Dying in childbirth is something that's not new; it's been going on for ages, and so it's not something that people focus on; it's not something that gets funded a lot, and it's exactly for that reason that we are losing mothers all the time, and we have kids with no mothers.

Ages Been Childbirth Dying
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When a woman has her first child in places like Africa, they're really young. They can be 12, 13,14, so their frames are really small, and they're usually malnourished.

Africa Child First First Child
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I want to do action, romantic comedy, and I love drama.
Action Comedy Drama I Love
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It's very difficult to hand someone your whole life story to play, and you've never really met that person.

Difficult Hand Life Life Story
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I'm Christian. Growing up in Ethiopia, it's half-Christian and half-Muslim. You grow up with Muslim kids. I'm very much aware of their religion.

Aware Christian Ethiopia Grow
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There are things that I will always shoot, but now that the modeling and acting worlds are becoming very close, you can do a little bit of one and more of the other.

Acting Always Becoming Bit
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I want to spend as much time as possible with my children, so I always like to keep my beauty and fashion routines effortless... but still chic!

Always Beauty Chic Children
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For my wardrobe, I like to invest in classic pieces and pair them with more trendy new pieces and accessories each season.

Accessories Classic Each Invest
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The most inspiring piece of advice I've gotten is simply to persevere. My mom taught me to always keep going no matter what from an early age. When it feels too difficult to push forward, I always remind myself, 'This too shall pass,' and then I redouble my efforts.

Advice Age Always Difficult
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If nothing else, I want women to understand that they are powerful. If you look back at history, in almost every big moment, in every leap forward, you find ordinary women at the core. We have more ability to make changes in the world than we can imagine if we have the courage to try.

Ability Almost Back Big
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When our mothers are alive and healthy, they do extraordinary things... like the mothers of Plaza de Mayo, who marched in Argentinean plazas, defying the military junta dictatorship and demanding the whereabouts of their abducted children... or the Liberian mothers who faced down civil war armed only with T-shirts and courage.

Alive Armed Children Civil
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Investing in women's lives is an investment in sustainable development, in human rights, in future generations - and consequently in our own long-term national interests.

Consequently Development Future Future Generations
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Midwives and doctors play a crucial role preventing unnecessary maternal deaths. They educate women about nutrition, health and family planning. And they step in when complications arise.

About Arise Complications Crucial
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Children with healthy mothers are much more likely to survive childhood, attend school and live healthy, productive lives.

Attend Childhood Children Healthy
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Creative new health strategies like micro-insurance for poor people or Kangaroo care for pre-term babies are transforming health outcomes in even the most low-resource settings. Dedication and innovation are transforming health care worldwide.

Babies Care Creative Dedication
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I can contribute, be valuable, and grow in many ways, since my interests are so varied. That is very satisfying.

Contribute Grow I Can Interests
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I think 99 percent of women's lib comes from technology making different kinds of lives possible, and then the social adjustment follows the technology - it doesn't precede it.

Adjustment Different Different Kinds Follows
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I spent my 20s working in patient care at a large university hospital, an experience that has informed all my work and has given me a lot of human observation to draw on.

All My Work Care Draw Experience
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I began my writing career in a very isolated place and time.

Began Career Isolated Place
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The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of the blood.

Blood Circulation Greatly Hygiene
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There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want, and after that to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.

Achieve After Aim Enjoy
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To suppose as we all suppose, that we could be rich and not behave as the rich behave, is like supposing that we could drink all day and stay sober.

All Day Behave Could Day
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Those who set out to serve both God and Mammon soon discover that there is no God.

Both Discover God Out
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Work hard, live hard, die hard, and go to hell after all, would be hard indeed!

Live Die Work After
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The average husband enjoys the total effect of his home but is usually unable to contribute any of the details of work and organisation that make it enjoyable.

Average husband Enjoys Home
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Every man of genius sees the world at a different angle from his fellows, and there is his tragedy.

Every man Sees World Fellows
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You need three things to win: discipline, hard work and, before everything maybe, commitment. No one will make it without those three. Sport teaches you that.

You need Discipline Hard work Commitment
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I love running and I will always run.
Love running Always
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When you run the marathon, you run against the distance, not against the other runners and not against the time.

Marathon Distance Runners Time
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Once you have commitment, you need the discipline and hard work to get you there.

Have commitment Discipline Hard work
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Athletes have to be confident and I am thinking like that.

Athletes Confident Thinking
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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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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'm a bit hesitant to do anything because I'm actually kind of lazy and I'd like an easier life from now on. The world's a massive place with lots of early mornings and late starts when you're working.

Actually Anything Because Bit
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