Christy Turlington Quotes

When I was 18, and my looks were what I was - and all that I was - it did feel very limiting.

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• There was this moment, particularly after I had my first child, where I felt like, 'I don't know if I'll ever make a record, or if this is always going to be something just floating around in my head.'

  

  Karen Elson
  • Know
  • Child
  • Moment

• I write songs, and I sing them. I never formulated a plan; I can't tell anyone else how to do this. But it feels right, so I just kind of enjoy it and get on with it.

  

  Gabrielle Aplin
  • Kind
  • Enjoy
  • Plan

• Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • Hope
  • Conviction
  • Turn

• We are building technology to keep up with what's happening in the world. It's transforming the way people are working. We're bringing the enterprise to the world.

  

  Parker Harris
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• I do not want to be a long-term CEO.

  

  Osman Rashid
  • Long
  • Want
  • CEO

• I have a degree in European history, which didn't necessarily have any direct impact on my career, but I'm grateful I studied something other than acting in college.

  

  Becki Newton
  • History
  • Career
  • College

• I really am a woman at peace.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • Peace
  • Woman
  • Really

• We have not invaded anyone. We have not conquered anyone. We have not grabbed their land, their culture, their history and tried to enforce our way of life on them.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Life
  • History
  • Culture

• I speak Farsi, German, Dari, and I understand Turkish, but I haven't used it since 1985, so I'm a bit rusty.

  

  Navid Negahban
  • Speak
  • Understand
  • German

• Everyone in Tool is interested in how we present our music. We write a group of songs that have a vibe, energy and feeling, and then we try to pick an image to capture that and communicate a feeling. We want something that adds to the connection with the audience.

  

  Adam Jones
  • Music
  • Want
  • Feeling

• Dear sisters and brothers, we realize the importance of light when we see darkness.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Light
  • See
  • Darkness

• I have a biology degree, okay?

  

  Rand Paul
  • Degree
  • Biology
  • Okay

• Offer them what they secretly want and they of course immediately become panic-stricken.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • Want
  • Become
  • Offer

• The easier it looks on screen, the more hard work goes into making it so.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Work
  • Looks
  • Hard Work

• I flew to New York to do a commercial back in the day when people could meet you at the gate, and the little agent when I came off the plane said, 'Oh, Miss Carr, we are so happy to have you here.' I went, 'Oh, for goodness sakes.'

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • People
  • Happy
  • Day

• Your pupillary muscles relax when your body gives up.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • Up
  • Body
  • Relax

• When I was a kid, I used to love it when one of my friends would jump out from behind a door and try to scare me. I always did the same thing in response.

  

  Patrick Carman
  • Love
  • Friends
  • Door

• Vegetarians should have that moral basis-that a man was not born a carnivorous animal, but born to live on the fruits and herbs that the earth grows.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Live
  • Earth
  • Moral

• Look, as long as we can enrich uranium and master the fuel cycle, we don’t need anything else. Our neighbors will be able to draw the proper conclusions.

  

  Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
  • Long

• The truth is, that's what we moved to Nashville to do - to learn how to write hit songs. We weren't necessarily trying to get on college radio. We're trying for mass appeal.

  

  Matthew Ramsey Old Dominion
  • Trying
  • Truth
  • College

• Different people have different duties assigned them by Nature; Nature has given one the power or the desire to do this, the other that. Each bird must sing with his own throat.

  

  Henrik Ibsen
  • Nature
  • Desire
  • Bird

• God is so big. It's a gigantic concept in God. The idea that God might love us and be interested in us is kind of huge and gigantic, but we turn it, because we're small – minded, into this tiny, petty, often greedy version of God, that is religion.

  

  Bono U2
  • God
  • Religion
  • Idea

• It is a maxim, founded on the universal experience of mankind, that no nation is to be trusted farther than it is bound by its interest; and no prudent statesman or politician will venture to depart from it.

  

  George Washington
  • Politics
  • Interest
  • Mankind

• When I was 18, and my looks were what I was - and all that I was - it did feel very limiting.

  

  Christy Turlington