Christy Turlington Quotes
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If we don't have God in our life, we're considered dead.
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Basically, when I went to school in Sri Lanka from age five onward, the classes there were sometimes sorted into a hierarchy of your skin tone. So the fairer-skinned kids sat at the front row, and the darker-skinned kids sat at the back by the poor ones who played out in the street all day long.
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As a kid, I liked to write, but I didn't think that was a viable career choice. My dream, actually, was to be a white girl rapper and join Salt-N-Pepa - which obviously was a much more viable career choice.
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Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.
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I think that everyone should get married at least once, so you can see what a silly, outdated institution it is.
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If you feel that you are good, don't be too proud of it.
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When I was a kid, I didn't know how I got into acting.
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Short cycle business are being impacted by credit, and are being impacted by gasoline prices, food, distribution businesses, chemical business.
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Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
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My bag always weighs a ton. I carry my whole bathroom with me. You never know what's going to happen in a day!
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My success has got so great, it's like I'm trapped, almost, within it.
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My writing books with positive gay characters has come more out of anger than anything else: anger at not having been able to find honest, accurate books about people like myself as a teen, books that show we're as diverse as straight people and that we can lead happy, healthy, productive lives just as straight people can.
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How you manage change can make all the difference.
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To me there is no picture so beautiful as smiling, bright-eyed, happy children; no music so sweet as their clear and ringing laughter.
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I prefer the Telugu film industry, as women are respected more than they are in the Tamil film industry. In Tamil cinema, they care only about their hero, who is God.
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Greek yogurt with some olive oil stirred in can transform many dishes.
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Where is it written that a smart woman can't also be stacked?
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Movies are my religion and God is my patron. I'm lucky enough to be in the position where I don't make movies to pay for my pool. When I make a movie, I want it to be everything to me; like I would die for it.
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In good speaking, should not the mind of the speaker know the truth of the matter about which he is to speak.
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I think the beautiful thing about acting is you don't really know who you are. You're able to be whatever you want any day during the week. So I really couldn't see myself being anything else.
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We are very fond of blaming the poor for destroying the environment. But often it is the powerful, including governments, that are responsible.
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That's what the best global conservation organisations and the American government (and other environmentally inclined governments, such as Sweden and the Netherlands) are doing: protecting the remaining wild environment. This is the equivalent of getting a patient to the emergency room - keep them alive and then figure out how to save them.
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Sacred spaces can be created in any environment.
