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" I've been told the best way to make a sexy face is to say 'pruuune.' "
Liya Kebede
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Sexy
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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. "
Liya Kebede
Women
World
Moment
" In 1967, the world health community launched a global effort to eradicate smallpox. It took a coordinated, worldwide effort, required the commitment of every government, and cost $130 million dollars. By 1977, smallpox had disappeared. "
Liya Kebede
Health
Effort
Community
" 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. "
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Success
Vulnerable
Who
" The desert loves me. I love the desert. It's nice to be in the heat in Africa. I love it. "
Liya Kebede
Heat
Africa
Desert
" 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
Keep Going
Age
Advice
" 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. "
Liya Kebede
Go
Light
Think
" What I love most about Mother's Day is that I am acknowledged and honored for being a mother. "
Liya Kebede
Mother
Day
Honored
" Children with healthy mothers are much more likely to survive childhood, attend school and live healthy, productive lives. "
Liya Kebede
Childhood
Children
Live
" 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
Woman
Small
Africa
" I always loved having the chance to disappear in a story. I always was kind of obsessed with that. "
Liya Kebede
Always
Chance
Loved
" I know how much parents love buying clothes for their kids and how they want to give them something new in the closet. "
Liya Kebede
Love
New
Clothes
" 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. "
Liya Kebede
Time
Think
Life
" I don't listen to people who say my dreams are impossible; I just work to prove them wrong. "
Liya Kebede
Impossible
People
Work
" 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. "
Liya Kebede
You
Acting
Always
" It is important for me that I represent a brand that reflects my personality. "
Liya Kebede
Personality
Important
Brand
" It's always a tricky thing, trying to make aid sustainable. "
Liya Kebede
Aid
Trying
Tricky
" 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. "
Liya Kebede
Work
Experience
Help
" The world needs our mothers. "
Liya Kebede
Mothers
World
Our
" Take good care of your skin and hydrate. If you have good skin, everything else will fall into place. "
Liya Kebede
Skin
Place
Good
" We can't end poverty if we fail to save the lives of our world's mothers. "
Liya Kebede
End
Fail
Mothers
" It's very difficult to hand someone your whole life story to play, and you've never really met that person. "
Liya Kebede
Life
Play
Person
" We should work to guarantee that there is a midwife or health worker by every woman's side during childbirth. "
Liya Kebede
Woman
Side
Health
" 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. "
Liya Kebede
People
Dedication
Health
" I can contribute, be valuable, and grow in many ways, since my interests are so varied. That is very satisfying. "
Liya Kebede
I Can
Ways
Very
" No other health disparity is so stark; virtually every woman who dies giving birth lives in a poor country. "
Liya Kebede
Birth
Giving
Woman
" I grew up watching films. Film has been part of my life since I was a child. "
Liya Kebede
Up
My Life
Life
" I tend to gravitate toward Proenza Schouler and Alexander Wang. Their designs are accessible and easy. "
Liya Kebede
Easy
Toward
Accessible
" For my diet, I choose mostly organic. But in general, I am a big believer in trying to strike a balance with everything. "
Liya Kebede
Big
Choose
I Am
" 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. "
Liya Kebede
First
Foundation
Goodwill
" 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. "
Liya Kebede
Growing Up
Religion
Up