Christy Turlington Quotes

I tried acupuncture, the patch, and hypnosis, but found that I needed to do it alone - when the time was right for me.

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• When you're doing a deal with someone in the southern Sahara, it's a very different way of doing business than in London. You can't sign them in the usual way because they'd end up getting ripped off, which would defeat the object of setting up a label like this.

  

  Damon Albarn Blur
  • Up
  • Different
  • Business

• When the simple word processors came in, writing became crisper, less dense - just because of the way we could instantly edit on the screen. Now the ability to mash up words and pictures and links and songs and tweets is what matters. I can't imagine what writing will be like in 2154.

  

  Gail Collins
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Words

• Such is the miraculous nature of the future of exiles: what is first uttered in the impotence of an overheated apartment becomes the fate of nations.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Nature
  • Future
  • Fate

• And it's one thing to give people freedom and something else to deny the rights of Christians to assert their faith in order to keep Hindus from feeling upset.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • People
  • Freedom
  • Feeling

• I love engaging in conversation with other moms because we can relate to one another, and we swap valuable insight and information.

  

  Laila Ali
  • Information
  • Conversation
  • Valuable

• I feel like an alien. I feel people don't like me. People behaved strangely after 'Rockstar.'

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • People
  • Feel
  • Alien

• I'm such a boots-jeans-tops-blazer girl.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Girl

• I could have taken the easy life and just done classical, but I felt very strongly about the album, my first pop album, the first time that I'd fused so many influences. I was very proud when it was in the charts in 25 countries at once.

  

  Vanessa Mae
  • Life
  • Time
  • Done

• I'm not a god - I do bad things.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • God
  • Bad
  • Things

• About a year after leaving drama school or a year and a half - and I was working solidly ever since leaving drama school - I picked up 'Game of Thrones.'

  

  Finn Jones
  • Up
  • School
  • Game

• Family is very important to me because that is the footprint we perpetuate. That is, the ripple in the water when the rock first impacts the pool, and it is those waves, that energy that one produces, that determines our direction.

  

  Larry Wilcox
  • Important
  • Family
  • Energy

• Accuse a person of breaking all Ten Commandments, and you've written the promo blurb for the dust cover of his tell-all memoir.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • You
  • Person
  • Dust

• Laughter is a strange response. I mean, what is it? It's a spasm of some kind! Is that always joy? It's very often discomfort. It's some sort of explosive reaction. It's very complex.

  

  Madeline Kahn
  • Joy
  • Laughter
  • Strange

• As an Ambassador for PSI and a supporter of Nothing But Nets, I have met individuals around the world who are lending their ideas, their voices, and their time to improve their communities and the world at large. And there are millions more that I have not met.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Time
  • World
  • Ideas

• We all grew up, our grandmothers and mothers had about three channels to watch, so we watched those soaps and now, a generation has grown up with the Internet and computers and video games.

  

  Jack Wagner
  • Up
  • Computers
  • Video Games

• Relationships based on obligation lack dignity.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Relationship
  • Obligation

• I get up every single day trying to repay a debt that I can never repay. Never. And I will work hard. Because I don't know why I was saved. I don't know.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Up
  • Work
  • Trying

• Bathrooms are, on a square foot basis, the most expensive room in the house to renovate. If you want to test your heart's fitness, try shopping for simple bathroom faucets. Add in the cost of the required valves, mixers and trims, and you may need reviving when you see the tally!

  

  Candice Olson
  • Heart
  • May
  • House

• One of the pupils of Artur Schnabel told me that he never heard his teacher practice a difficult passage slowly, but he was struck by the way Schnabel would play one chord of a slow movement over and over, measuring and remeasuring the different components of the harmony.

  

  Charles Rosen
  • Different
  • Practice
  • Teacher

• I couldn't be more chuffed if I were a badger at the start of the mating season!

  

  Ian Holloway

• It seems to me that one of the things that happened with a lot of literary fiction in the 1980s and 1990s was that it became very concerned with the academy and less with how people live their lives. We got to a point where the crime novel stepped into the breach. It was also a time when the crime novel stopped being so metropolitan.

  

  Val McDermid
  • People
  • Time
  • Live

• Never work just for money. Money alone won't save your soul or build a decent family life or help you sleep at night. We're the richest nation on Earth, with the highest number of imprisoned people in the world. Our drug addictions and child poverty are among the highest in the industrialized world. So don't ever confuse wealth or fame with character.

  

  Marian Wright Edelman
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• Many causes produce war. There are ancient hatreds, turbulent frontiers, the 'legacy of old forgotten, far-off things, and battles long ago.' There are new-born fanaticisms. Convictions on the part of certain peoples that they have become the unique depositories of ultimate truth and right.

  

  Franklin D. Roosevelt
  • Long
  • Truth
  • War

• I tried acupuncture, the patch, and hypnosis, but found that I needed to do it alone - when the time was right for me.

  

  Christy Turlington
  • Time
  • Alone