Christy Turlington Quotes

It is better to not even try it than to endure the ramifications of either quitting smoking or dying.

Christy Turlington

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• There's not much room for eccentricity in Hollywood, and eccentricity is what's sexy in people.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • People
  • Sexy
  • Hollywood

• 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
  • People
  • Work
  • Believe

• I always say three things make a writer: inspiration, obviously; perspiration, doing the work. But the third is desperation. I'm not really fit for anything else, or to have a real job. That fear drives me. The pressure has always been self inflicted.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Job
  • Inspiration
  • Writer

• I think if you talk to my colleagues, I was less than a fearsome individual.

  

  Karl Rove
  • Think
  • Talk
  • Colleagues

• I really don't know life without wrestling.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Life
  • Know
  • Wrestling

• The interest on our debt is going to collapse this country.

  

  Ted Yoho
  • Country
  • Interest
  • Debt

• There are times when what's happening in rock is the best music in the world, and there are times when there is nothing worthwhile at all.

  

  Carla Bley
  • World
  • Music
  • Best

• The difference between American parties is actually simple. Democrats are in favor of higher taxes to pay for greater spending, while Republicans are in favor of greater spending, for which the taxpayers will pay.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • American
  • Simple
  • Will

• I never thought about having a daughter, and then I had a daughter, and it was a remarkable thing. It was very different from having a son and your response to it. With a son, it's much more complex. And it's probably because of my stuff in the past. With a daughter, I was surprised at how simple it is.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Different
  • Past
  • Simple

• Tori Amos had a major influence on how I craft words in a song. Until I heard 'Little Earthquakes' all my lyrics used really obvious analogies like rain for tears.

  

  Hal Sparks
  • Song
  • Words
  • Tears

• The key is falling in love with something, anything. If your heart's attached to it, then your mind will be attached to it.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Mind
  • Heart
  • Love

• There are many things that matter much more than an editor's gender in shaping the direction of the leadership.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Leadership
  • Matter
  • Gender

• Marriage is traditionally old-school in many respects. It is highly antiquated, and, that being said, beautiful.

  

  Lake Bell
  • School
  • Beautiful
  • Marriage

• I must stick with Chinese language films.

  

  Zhang Yimou
  • Language
  • Chinese
  • Stick

• You can not only do great things for an urban core by moving your employee base there, you're also going to be a better business.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • Great
  • Business
  • Moving

• The anorexic is out to prove how little she needs, how little she can survive on; she is out, in a sense, to discredit her nurturers, while at the same time making a public crisis out of her need for nurture. Such vulnerability and such power: it brings the whole female machinery to a halt.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Time
  • She
  • Power

• Whatever you build, you're building for the family - not with an eye toward getting away, but with an eye toward adding to the family pie.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Family
  • Eye
  • Building

• Managing to tell a story is very gratifying.

  

  Gail Carson Levine
  • Story
  • Very
  • Tell

• All's well that ends well; which is the epitaph I should put on my tombstone if I were the last man left alive.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Tombstone

• We feel led to caution . . . against forming the bad habit of incurring debt and taking upon themselves obligations which frequently burden them heavier than they can bear, and lead to the loss of their homes and other possessions. We know it is the fashion of the age to use credit to the utmost limit. . . . We, therefore, repeat our counsel . . . to shun debt. Be content with moderate gains, and be not misled by illusory hopes of acquiring wealth. . . . Let our children also be taught habits of economy, and not to indulge in tastes which they cannot gratify without running into debt.

  

  Wilford Woodruff
  • Running
  • Fashion
  • Economy

• You can't be unhappy in the middle of a big, beautiful river.

  

  Jim Harrison
  • Beautiful
  • River

• I asked all of our recruiters to give me all resumes of prospective employees with their name, gender, place of origin, and age blacked out. This simple change shocked me, because I found myself interviewing different-looking candidates - even though I was 100% convinced that I was not being biased in my resume selection process.

  

  Eric Ries
  • Change
  • Candidates
  • Selection

• If you remove stricture from a large Perl program currently, you're just installing delayed bugs, whereas with this feature, you're installing an instant bug that's easily fixed. Whoopee.

  

  Larry Wall

• It is better to not even try it than to endure the ramifications of either quitting smoking or dying.

  

  Christy Turlington
  • Dying
  • Smoking