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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• My idea of the modern Stoic sage is someone who transforms fear into prudence, pain into information, mistakes into initiation, and desire into undertaking.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Fear
  • Desire
  • Pain

• The last thing a drunkard loses, you see, is his cunning: it outlasts his soul by a long season.

  

  Tad Williams
  • Long
  • Soul

• 79: A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.

  

  Alan Perlis
  • God
  • Believe

• Germany is not like Ireland or Denmark. It is a country where the domestic market counts much more than the external market.

  

  Peter Bofinger
  • Country

• In fact, if you have a crime committed against you, and you go to have hypnosis, you can't testify. Because there's no way to test what is real, what's fact, what's fantasy.

  

  Betty Hill
  • Real

• When I write with Maiden, then I write only with the guys in Maiden, we don't do songs from outside people.

  

  Bruce Dickinson Iron Maiden
  • People

• I flew on a plane the week after 9/11.

  

  Andre Aciman

• This is that which I think great readers are apt to be mistaken in; those who have read of everything, are thought to understand everything too; but it is not always so. Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours. We are of the ruminating kind , and it is not enough to cram ourselves with a great load of collections:;; unless we chew them over again, they will not give us strength and nourishment.

  

  John Locke Nazareth
  • Knowledge
  • Mistaken
  • Nourishment

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

  

  Christy Turlington