Christy Turlington Quotes
On average, African-American women are 4 times as likely to die from pregnancy related complications. Latina women are at 2 times greater risk.
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Nothing scares me more than people with some doll collection.
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I'm a huge fan of 'Eastbound & Down.' It's one of my favorite shows.
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We have to stop rewarding bad behavior.
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Calling Rand Paul 'the most interesting man in politics' is an invitation to an argument - but one we suspect he'd love to have.
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I think the institution of marriage is a great idea, but for me it's just an idea.
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I make mistakes on a very grand scale.
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I think punditry serves no purpose.
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The first time I thought I should be an actor was in school. I thought, 'At least this is something for which I won't have to study.' But I've realised that an actor needs to be constantly unsure about what he's doing and about what's going on around him. The moment you think you've nailed it, you're dead.
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I don't think people really understood what I did. And you know, in my book, 'A Helluva High Note' deals with my back story, that I was a songwriter, that I spent years trying to hone my craft and being rejected and then finally becoming a successful songwriter, record executive and publisher.
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I think a lot of guys who are on the Internet a lot, they're kind of anesthetized to some of the violent language and all that because they see it all the time.
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When you are a successful business person, you are only as good as your team. No one can do every deal alone.
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Art lies by its own artifice.
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There are young idealists all around the world falling in love with the Yankees now and realists who are gravitating to the Red Sox. I think the universe is on its head.
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There is no more respected or influential forum in the field of journalism than the New York Times. I look forward, with great anticipation, to contributing to its op-ed page.
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I feel that I communicate best when I am not deliberately being linear. Along this same line, I feel some of the best sermons I've ever heard were in the theatre rather than the pulpit - as, for example, in the Theatre of the Absurd.
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The Yale group was doing the Harold. So by our senior year we were trying to do the Harold. Again, we had no idea what we were doing. We had one guy in the group who was pretty experimental; he would kind of push us to do weird things. It was really fun, a great experience.
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To me, there is nothing but puerility in a tale in which the human form – and local human passions and conditions and standards – are depicted as native to other worlds and universes.
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At first, it's unfamiliar, then it strikes root.
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I had carefully read the Balfour Declaration. I had familiarized myself with the history of the question of a Jewish homeland and the position of the British and the Arabs. I was skeptical, as I read over the whole record up to date, about some of the views and attitudes assumed by the 'striped-pants boys' in the State Department.
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I was an immigrant. I came here at 12. We were caught behind the Iron Curtain until I was 10.
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Women who are stronger than the society allows them to be often feel a need for something stronger than themselves, and to dissolve into it.
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The hope, the hope that lives in the breast of the black American, is just so tremendous that it overwhelms me sometimes.
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On average, African-American women are 4 times as likely to die from pregnancy related complications. Latina women are at 2 times greater risk.
