Christy Turlington Quotes
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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.
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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.
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I never really thought of myself as being an action hero or a leading man or any of that. I'm a character actor.
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Only buy clothes that you plan to keep forever. It's important to see trends for what they are: a game.
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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.
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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.
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I think actors make for very good directors, and I would like to do that one day.
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In politics... never retreat, never retract... never admit a mistake.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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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!
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Men disappoint me so, I disappoint myself so, yet courage, patience, shuffle the cards ...
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Soul-winning is the chief business of the Christian minister; it should be the main pursuit of every true believer.
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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.
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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.
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I've had the good fortune to play characters that have a role-model thing to them.
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The last time I seen Eazy-E, we were at a meeting at the House of Blues with me, Big Hutch and Jada Pinkett Smith talking about shooting the Kalifornia video. Eazy was coughing real bad at the table and had to be excused a couple of times. EAZY-E never did tell us he was sick bad, but we knew. 2 weeks later, our beloved brother passed. I guess that was Eric's Wright way of saying, don't feel sorry for me, everything will be alright.
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As a competitor, you have to learn pretty quickly how to deal with pressure.
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The protection the government owes you and fails to provide, you are morally bound to provide for yourselves.
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I was really gangly and uncoordinated as a kid. I couldn't even do a cartwheel.
