Christy Turlington Quotes
It is possible to experience an awakening in this life through realising just how precious each moment, each mental process, and each breath truly is.
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I know exactly what my values are and what I love to do. That's worth additional years right there. I say no to a lot of stuff that would be easy money but deviates from my meaning of life.
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Money isn't the most important thing in life, but it's reasonably close to oxygen on the 'gotta have it' scale.
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Let me tell you something - being thought of as a beautiful woman has spared me nothing in life. No heartache, no trouble. Love has been difficult. Beauty is essentially meaningless and it is always transitory.
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I know someone from growing up who is in jail right now for the rest of his life, but he was one of the sweetest people I ever knew.
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It's not complicated to embrace life. You just have to make the choice.
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I still call Texas home. It is where I spent most of my life growing up.
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It was failing part of my Ph.D. that led me into novel-writing. By then I was 29, had remarried and had a second baby. It struck me that I'd lost my path in life and I felt frustrated. That's when I started to write.
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Laughing and crying are very similar. They're an extreme response to life. You see it in children who start laughing hysterically.
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Energy is necessary for economic growth, for a better quality of life, and for human progress.
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In retrospect, I have devoted my scientific life mainly to the question to what extent infectious agents contribute to human cancer, trusting that this will contribute to novel modes of cancer prevention, diagnosis and, hopefully, later on, also to cancer therapy.
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Life's a bit like mountaineering - never look down.
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After a decade in public life working to stop Iran from ever acquiring nuclear weapons, I cannot support a deal giving Iran billions of dollars in sanctions relief - in return for letting it maintain an advanced nuclear program and the infrastructure of a threshold nuclear state.
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I am quite sensitive to politics, because you know, as an Arab, an Iraqi, all your life, you are very conscious of it.
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Be who you are. It's easy to feel like you have to blend in, but it takes courage to live your life with conviction and embrace the person that you are.
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I had learned of Gertrude Stein's bon mot that medicine opened all doors. This prompted me, in different moods, to view my future life as literary psychiatrist, globe-trotting tropical disease specialist, or academic internist.
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'Fallen Too Far' was my first NYT bestseller. That changed my life.
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Young players need to know how to take care of themselves for life after baseball.
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Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves.
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“Having periods changed my personality: resentful and angry inside, I felt cheated and knew to the core of my being that life was unfair and boys had it easier than girls. A burning ball of anger and rebelliousness started to grow within me.”
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That's the beauty of backbends. Emotionally we can never be disturbed, for the emotional centre becomes an extrovert. When you do Viparita Dandasana, your head looks backwards, but your conscious mind stretches everywhere. Study by observing how the mind gets regulated. You not only know the freedom in the spine, but also the freedom in the spirit.
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The spending of our tax dollars by the Pentagon represents the greatest social disease of our country; I call it Pentagonorrhea.
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How can you be inspired by Cameron and Miliband? These guys are just drabness personified.
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It is possible to experience an awakening in this life through realising just how precious each moment, each mental process, and each breath truly is.
