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There's a saying in Africa: 'To find out you are pregnant is to have one foot in the grave.'

Africa Find Foot Grave
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It's one thing to donate money. It's a whole other thing to give an opportunity for someone to make his own money.

Donate Give His Make
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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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I am always touched when friends make contributions to my foundation on my behalf.

Always Am Behalf Contributions
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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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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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Let him then have powers commensurate with his utmost possible need, only let him be held strictly responsible for the exercise of them. Any other course would be injustice as well as bad policy

Commensurate Exercise Responsible Injustice
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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 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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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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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 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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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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Helping others isn't a chore; it is one of the greatest gifts there is.

Chore Gifts Greatest Greatest Gifts
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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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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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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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War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation.

Absolute Catastrophic End Except
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What you are is a question only you can answer.
Answer Only Question You
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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'm very interested in the impact of biotechnology on the way people live.

Biotechnology Impact Interested Live
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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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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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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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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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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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Athletes have to be confident and I am thinking like that.

Athletes Confident Thinking
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I can't change everything by myself but I can be one of the people who are trying to change the situation.

Change everything Myself One People
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