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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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I don't think we should judge celebrities for doing charity work. Period. Whatever their reasons for doing it, they are shedding light on issues that would otherwise go unnoticed.

Celebrities Charity Charity Work Doing
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I never thought modeling would become my career. I thought it was something I'd do to pay my way through college.

Become Career College Modeling
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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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The desert loves me. I love the desert. It's nice to be in the heat in Africa. I love it.

Africa Desert Heat I Love
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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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I grew up watching films. Film has been part of my life since I was a child.
Been Child Film Films
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I always loved having the chance to disappear in a story. I always was kind of obsessed with that.

Always Chance Disappear Having
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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 really don't think there should be a movie about me. That's for sure!

About Me Movie Really
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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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Prenatal care is one of the most effective ways to reduce maternal mortality because it identifies complications or high risks before emergency situations.

Because Before Care Complications
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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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I don't listen to people who say my dreams are impossible; I just work to prove them wrong.

Dreams Impossible Just Listen
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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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No other health disparity is so stark; virtually every woman who dies giving birth lives in a poor country.

Birth Country Dies Disparity
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We can't end poverty if we fail to save the lives of our world's mothers.
End Fail Lives Mothers
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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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We should work to guarantee that there is a midwife or health worker by every woman's side during childbirth.

Childbirth Every Guarantee Health
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President Obama has made maternal health one of the core priorities of U.S. international aid funding.

Aid Core Funding Health
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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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When countries commit to protecting vulnerable lives, they should receive support from those who can provide it in order to make their programs a success.

Commit Countries Lives Make
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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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When you can't do something truly useful, you tend to vent the pent up energy in something useless but available, like snappy dressing.

Available Dressing Energy Like
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War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation.

Absolute Catastrophic End Except
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The dead cannot cry out for justice. It is a duty of the living to do so for them.

Cannot Cry Dead Duty
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Some prices are just too high, no matter how much you may want the prize. The one thing you can't trade for your heart's desire is your heart.

Desire Heart High How
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Escapist literature gets a bad rap. But I think escape is important for a lot of people in a lot of places.

Bad Bad Rap Escape Escapist
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I'm very interested in the impact of biotechnology on the way people live.

Biotechnology Impact Interested Live
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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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For me, writing is more a process of discovering the book than planning it.
Book Discovering Me More
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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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Seems like half my anxiety dreams are about airports.
About Airport Anxiety Dreams
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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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People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.
Life People People Say Prefer
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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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As has often been said, a ship is like a lady's watch, always out of repair.

Often Lady Watch Always
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