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Beauty is being comfortable and confident in your own skin.
Iman
Beauty
Own
Skin
Comfortable
Confident
Being
Your
Change makes you find your calling, your legacy, and God's divine plan for your life. Don't run from it.
Iman
Life
God
You
Change
Run
Find
Divine
Calling
Makes
Legacy
Plan
Your
I love life. I wish I could live another 500 years, truly. There is so much to do. I don't feel bitter or angry or disappointed. If anything, I am very grateful for where I come from. I have absolutely no regrets.
Waris Dirie
Life
Love
Angry
Grateful
Love Life
Wish
Live
Bitter
No Regrets
Could
Absolutely
Disappointed
Feel
Come
Another
Am
Years
Truly
Very
Where
Anything
Regrets
Much
If I feel frustrated in a situation, I take a deep breath and walk away.
Iman
Walk
Situation
Breath
Take
Take A Deep Breath
Feel
Frustrated
Deep
Deep Breath
Away
The day you settle for less is the day you will get less.
Iman
Day
You
Will
Settle
Get
Less
I don't look like a white woman. I look Somali.
Iman
Woman
White
Somali
Like
Look
At the end of the day, a 34B doesn't give you self-esteem.
Iman
Day
You
End Of The Day
Give
Self-Esteem
End
Brooklyn's good. Brooklyn's funky. Brooklyn's happening.
Waris Dirie
Good
Brooklyn
Happening
Funky
I belong nowhere and to no one.
Waris Dirie
No-One
Nowhere
Belong
It is weird. A lot of people try to ask me political questions. I'm not a politician.
Barkhad Abdi
Me
People
Political
Try
Politician
Weird
Lot
Questions
Ask
When I was leaving Yemen to come to America, things were tough. My dad had just been laid off, and it was a challenge. When I lived in Yemen, I thought America was a perfect place. Everything was bigger and better. I dreamed big. The American dream, you know? You have to work hard for your dream to come true.
Barkhad Abdi
Work
You
Work Hard
Better
Challenge
Thought
Tough
Big
Everything
Dream
Dreamed
Perfect
Had
True
Come
Know
Leaving
Were
Been
Off
Yemen
America
American
Just
American Dream
Bigger
Laid
Place
Your
Hard
Your Dream
Dad
Lived
Things
I would DJ pool parties in Minneapolis, but I never swam there!
Barkhad Abdi
Pool
Would
Minneapolis
Never
Parties
What I believe will make my acting career successful going forward is hard work. I like to challenge myself. Then it's the people I meet and choosing the projects I want to work on correctly. There's a lot of characters I can play.
Barkhad Abdi
Work
Hard Work
Myself
People
Challenge
Will
Believe
Meet
Projects
Correctly
Characters
Like
Make
Lot
Going
Want
Then
Successful
Acting
Acting Career
Hard
Choosing
Forward
Play
Career
I used to play football all the time. In the U.S., people don't play football, so I had to learn basketball. Looking back, that's what I like about my life - doing new things, having a new perspective.
Barkhad Abdi
Life
Time
People
Perspective
My Life
Looking
Looking Back
New Things
Back
About
Having
Had
Football
New
Like
Learn
Doing
New Perspective
Used
Play
Play Football
Things
Basketball
I don't see myself only as a Somali character. I think of myself as an actor, and if the job fits me and I like the story, I will go for it.
Barkhad Abdi
Myself
Character
Me
Will
Job
Think
See
Somali
Only
Like
Go
Go For It
Fits
Story
Actor
I don't recognize my people anymore. I feel Somalia is lost. There is no Somalia. It is just a name.
Hawa Abdi
People
Lost
Recognize
Somalia
Feel
Name
Just
Anymore
When I decided to become a doctor, I was very, very young, when my mother, her seventh child, became pregnant, and she was feeling terrible pain, and I could not know how to help her. And my mother died in front of my eyes, without knowing why, which diagnosis. So I decided to be a doctor.
Hawa Abdi
Eyes
Doctor
Mother
Feeling
Become
Young
Pain
Seventh
Could
Know
Knowing
She
Terrible
Became
Without
Diagnosis
How
Very
Child
Died
Front
Decided
Which
Pregnant
Help
Why
Her
The long-term solution in preventing another famine in Somalia is to promote self-reliance.
Hawa Abdi
Solution
Promote
Somalia
Preventing
Long-Term
Another
Self-Reliance
Famine
I have big hope for the Canadian government to help Somalia with something concrete and tangible. I haven't seen that.
Hawa Abdi
Hope
Government
Seen
Big
Somalia
Something
Concrete
Tangible
Canadian
Help
We women in Somalia are trying to be leaders in our community.
Hawa Abdi
Women
Community
Our
Our Community
Somalia
Leaders
Trying
We all want what every girl wants: to look fabulous while we're out there ruling the world.
Iman
World
Girl
Every
Ruling
Out
Fabulous
Look
Want
Wants
While
There are some people who have helped to advance me and other girls, but the fashion industry is always behind popular culture. They think they understand the zeitgeist. They don't know anything about the zeitgeist.
Iman
Fashion
Me
Culture
People
Girl
Some People
Think
Other
Some
About
Advance
Know
Industry
Understand
Always
Behind
Anything
Who
Helped
Popular
Popular Culture
Fashion Industry
Zeitgeist
I suffer from low self-esteem. I had horrible self-esteem growing up. You really have to save yourself because the critic within you will eat you up. It's not the outside world - it's your interior life, that critic within you, that you have to silence.
Iman
Life
Silence
You
Yourself
Interior
World
Will
Critic
Eat
Horrible
Outside
Outside World
Had
Self-Esteem
Because
Within
Up
Low
Low Self-Esteem
Really
Your
Growing
Growing Up
Suffer
Save
The women I gravitate to are the ones who defy convention and reinvent themselves - hence, they reinvent the world around them.
Iman
Women
World
Defy
Around
Convention
Them
Themselves
Who
Hence
Reinvent
Gravitate
I have a 15-year-old daughter who thinks that I always had this self confidence that I have now at the age of 60. And I always tell her that what she is going through - the low self-esteem as a teenager - that is a right of passage.
Iman
Confidence
Age
Daughter
Teenager
Tell
Through
Self
Had
Self-Confidence
Self-Esteem
She
Always
Passage
Going
Low
Low Self-Esteem
Who
Now
Her
Right
Thinks
At the end of the day, my legacy will not be modelling but my cosmetics line.
Iman
Day
End Of The Day
Will
Cosmetics
Line
End
Legacy
Modelling
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