Citas de Liya Kebede

• Helping others isn't a chore; it is one of the greatest gifts there is.

  Liya Kebede

  Helping Others, Helping, Chores

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

  Liya Kebede

  Dream, People, Impossible

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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.

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  Powerful, Trying, Ordinary

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• If you don't have a dream in life, I don't know what you have. You have to want something beyond your reach; it's exciting when it works out.

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  Dream, Want Something, Work Out

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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.

  Liya Kebede

  Mom, Effort, Advice

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• In a hundred years, how do you want the world to be? Everybody should get together to make the world a better place.

  Liya Kebede

  Years, Together, World

  "The model of perfection". CNN Interview, edition.cnn.com. June 11, 2007.

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• El desierto me ama. Me encanta el desierto. Es agradable estar en el calor de África. Me encanta.

  Liya Kebede

  Nice, Desert, Heat

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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.

  Liya Kebede

  Rights, Long, Generations

  "Let’s Make Mother’s Day a Global Reality" by Liya Kebede, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 7, 2009.

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

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  Feet, Graves, Pregnant

  "Liya Kebede: star of Africa" by Eva Wiseman, www.theguardian.com. June 12, 2010.

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• The best lesson that I've learned from my mother is that she just never accepted no for an answer and I think that's something that has stayed with me.

  Liya Kebede

  Mother, Thinking, Accepted

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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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.

  Liya Kebede

  Opportunity, Giving, Donate

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• Helping others isn't a chore, it is one of the greatest gifts there is. I want to challenge the next generation of women to find a way to give back that inspires and fulfills them and weave it into their daily lives. If the next generation can learn that early on, we have a real chance to change the world.

  Liya Kebede

  Real, Helping Others, Giving

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• Creo que deberías investigar tu causa, ver si hay otras personas que ya estén haciendo lo mismo que tú e intentar unir fuerzas, porque creo que colaborar es muy importante y muy eficaz. Más es más, ¿sabes?

  Liya Kebede

  Pensamiento, Gente, Importante

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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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.

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  Mom, Care, Might

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• Una cosa que el modelaje me enseñó es que la atención puede cambiarlo todo.

  Liya Kebede

  Spotlight, Taught, Modeling

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• La atención prenatal es una de las formas más eficaces de reducir la mortalidad materna porque identifica las complicaciones o los riesgos elevados antes de que se produzcan situaciones de emergencia.

  Liya Kebede

  Risk, Care, Way

  "This Mother’s Day" by Liya Kebede, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 6, 2011.

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• We should work to guarantee that there is a midwife or health worker by every woman's side during childbirth.

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  Guarantees That, Health Workers, Sides

  "Why Protests Aren’t What we Should Remember About The G8" by Liya Kebede, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 13, 2010.

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• Every day we hear about the dangers of cancer, heart disease and AIDS. But how many of us realize that, in much of the world, the act of giving life to a child is still the biggest killer of women of child-bearing age?

  Liya Kebede

  Children, Women, Cancer

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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.

  Liya Kebede

  Mother, Children, Military

  "Let’s Make Mother’s Day a Global Reality" by Liya Kebede, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 7, 2009.

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• For my diet, I choose mostly organic. But in general, I am a big believer in trying to strike a balance with everything.

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  Balance, Trying, Bigs

  "Face Time | Liya Kebede". Interview with Tina Turnbow, tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com. October 20, 2011.

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• It's always a tricky thing, trying to make aid sustainable.

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  Trying, Aids, Tricky

  "Liya Kebede: star of Africa" by Eva Wiseman, www.theguardian.com. June 12, 2010.

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• Nuevas estrategias sanitarias creativas, como los microseguros para los pobres o los cuidados canguro para los bebés prematuros, están transformando los resultados sanitarios incluso en los entornos con menos recursos. La dedicación y la innovación están transformando la atención sanitaria en todo el mundo.

  Liya Kebede

  Baby, Dedication, People

  "Redefining “Impossible” When It Comes To Maternal Mortality" by Liya Kebede, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 21, 2010.

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• Las comadronas y los médicos desempeñan un papel crucial en la prevención de muertes maternas innecesarias. Informan a las mujeres sobre nutrición, salud y planificación familiar. E intervienen cuando surgen complicaciones.

  Liya Kebede

  Doctors, Play, Roles

  "Why Protests Aren’t What we Should Remember About The G8" by Liya Kebede, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 13, 2010.

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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.

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  Mom, Daughter, Nice

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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.

  Liya Kebede

  Children, Firsts, Young

  CNN Interview, www.cnn.com. June 11, 2007.

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