Christy Turlington Quotes

I was really gangly and uncoordinated as a kid. I couldn't even do a cartwheel.

Christy Turlington

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• I've achieved more than some people do in a lifetime, but it doesn't mean I've done it all.

  

  Aaron Taylor-Johnson
  • People
  • Done
  • Mean

• My mind is constantly creating and searching, but I can't make myself put the right words on paper until I'm ready. Once I'm ready, I'm a focused, disciplined writer who will put in twelve hours a day at the computer, but I also spend a lot of time away from the computer getting to that point.

  

  Tawni O'Dell
  • Time
  • Mind
  • Words

• I never really thought of myself as being an action hero or a leading man or any of that. I'm a character actor.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Character
  • Man
  • Action

• Only buy clothes that you plan to keep forever. It's important to see trends for what they are: a game.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Important
  • Game
  • Forever

• Music videos are an especially fun thing to watch - I bet from the outside, too - because you learn so much, just like in our music... It's really fun work.

  

  Cam
  • Work
  • Music
  • Fun

• I do not think I could myself be brought to support a man for office whom I knew to be an open enemy of, and scoffer at, religion.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Man
  • Support
  • Myself

• I think actors make for very good directors, and I would like to do that one day.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Good
  • Think
  • Day

• In politics... never retreat, never retract... never admit a mistake.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Never
  • Mistake
  • Politics

• Eighty percent of my life is normal like any other mother. I worry about my children, if they're doing all right. I worry that my husband is doing well.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • Life
  • Children
  • Mother

• I'm not the same person as the character I do in my songs. She's crazy! The 'Daddy Song' was the first sketch I ever wrote, especially on the guitar and everything - and definitely the most offensive. And absurd.

  

  Carly Craig
  • She
  • Character
  • Song

• The building’s beauty is a metaphor for hers Mumtaz Mahal and is thus contemplated as feminine. It is builder's feeling for the woman interred within. What else but passion, they ask, could have inspired something so perfect?

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • Feeling
  • Perfect
  • Passion

• I think a lot of what I was taught, gathered, and learned is worth keeping. Heritage and 'wisdom' and simply personal family and local history enrich the one able to tap such information. As it is I wish I had garnered more from my grandparents and parents.

  

  Gary Gygax
  • Family
  • History
  • Parents

• When I was inspecting the guard of honor and as I walked past one person, I saw through the corner of my eye some movement. Then I saw a man reverse his rifle at me. I ducked down a little bit in a reflex action. By my ducking, he missed my head and the brunt of the blow came on my shoulder below the left ear.

  

  Rajiv Gandhi
  • Past
  • Action
  • Honor

• The wizards represent all that the true 'muggle' most fears: They are plainly outcasts and comfortable with being so. Nothing is more unnerving to the truly conventional than the unashamed misfit!

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • True

• Men disappoint me so, I disappoint myself so, yet courage, patience, shuffle the cards ...

  

  Margaret Fuller
  • Men
  • Courage
  • Patience

• We are not the technology. It should be our - you know, our slave, the technology. But it's rapidly becoming our master in many areas, I think.

  

  Prince Charles
  • Technology

• In the four decades after World War II, manufacturing jobs paid more than other jobs for given skills. But that is much less true today. Increased international competition has forced American manufacturers to reduce costs. As a result, the pay premium for low-skilled workers in manufacturing is smaller than it once was.

  

  Christina Romer
  • World
  • American
  • War

• I've had the good fortune to play characters that have a role-model thing to them.

  

  Jimmy Smits
  • Good
  • Model

• Actually, because of new technologies, my full studio is on my laptop. And I have a little keyboard in my bag. I can make everything I do come from my laptop. Even when I go to a big studio, all I do is to plug in my laptops. That's they way I do it.

  

  David Guetta

• I used to be, when I was young, I used to be extremely regular and very organized.

  

  Tony Gilroy
  • Young
  • Used
  • Organized

• Our enemy of international terrorism respects no laws of warfare or morality, and its individual members take innocent lives, just to create chaos for news cameras.

  

  Mark Kennedy
  • Enemy
  • Chaos
  • Innocent

• We are caught in the contradiction of finding life a rather perplexing puzzle which causes us a lot of misery, and at the same time being dimly aware of the boundless, limitless nature of life. So we begin looking for an answer to the puzzle.

  

  Joko Beck
  • Life
  • Time
  • Nature

• I always want to know whether the customers are satisfied; customer satisfaction is, after all, my ultimate goal!

  

  Andreas Nikolaus "Niki" Lauda
  • Goal
  • Satisfaction
  • Customers

• I was really gangly and uncoordinated as a kid. I couldn't even do a cartwheel.

  

  Christy Turlington