Christy Turlington Quotes

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

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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 can give you a definite perhaps.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • You
  • Give
  • I Can

• 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

• The facts at hand presumably speak for themselves, but a trifle more vulgarly, I suspect, than facts even usually do.

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • Hand

• 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

• Soul-winning is the chief business of the Christian minister; it should be the main pursuit of every true believer.

  

  Charles Spurgeon
  • Business
  • True
  • Soul

• 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

• Keep a strict, predictable schedule 365 days a year that has you eating, sleeping, and exercising at about the same times day in and day out.

  

  David Agus

• With reporting, if you work hard, you can usually pull something out. But writing humor doesn't respond to working hard, necessarily. I mean, you could just sit there and look at the page all day and maybe something will come.

  

  Ian Frazier
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Day

• Frances Hesselbein, Marshall Goldsmith, Richard Beckhard, The organization of the future, Peter F. Drucker Foundation for Nonprofit Management. Jossey-Bass Publishers, 1997; Book summary

  

  Marshall Goldsmith
  • Book
  • Future
  • Organization

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

  

  Christy Turlington