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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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There is something in the clear blue warm sea of the tropics, which gives to the stranger a feeling of unreality.

Something Sea Clear Blue
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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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Still, whether we like it or not, the task of speeding up the decrease of the human population becomes increasingly urgent.

Task Speeding up Human population
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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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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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I remember in particular my first victory when I achieved a very fast time in what were perfect conditions but since then the wind has always been a factor against me.

First victory Achieved Fast 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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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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For me a day without training is like a day without eating.

A day Training Without eating
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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 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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I'm quite obviously not the world's most handsome man - I'm the second world's most handsome man!

Handsome Man Most Obviously
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An awful lot of gay pop stars pretend to be straight. I'm going to start a movement of straight pop stars pretending to be gay.

Awful AwfulLot Gay Going
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It would be great to see somebody like Kid Rock kissing a man. But I'm sure that he wouldn't like the prospect of it put to him, and I won't even go there with Eminem.

Eminem Even Go Great
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With the war and everything that's going on, unless you're Susan Sarandon, the best route is to keep your mouth shut. For me it is, anyway!

Anyway Best Everything Going
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To be honest, I don't want No. 1's anymore. Now, don't get me wrong, I wouldn't mind the odd few, but I'd also like a record going in at eight and staying around.

Also Anymore Around Eight
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