Christy Turlington Quotes
The seated lotus postures are an amazing way to go into meditation, or simply just to take a moment to ground oneself.
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I went from living in the Dominican Republic - every day, my mom and I would cook, or we'd go hang out with the kids - to flying a private jet to Chicago with Zac Efron and Dennis Quaid. People had champagne, and they were going to these amazing restaurants. It was a culture shock. It's important, I think, to have that. To see both sides.
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I've been busy for years, buying land, often under pseudonyms, and planting trees on it. All the money is going into it when I die - and in the end I'd like to think that it will be 20 to 30,000 acres.
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Restaurants stress the protein. People read menu items left to right, with the protein first. I read descriptions right to left.
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Starting in business is like getting married... there is really no good time and no bad time. The time is now.
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It's not surprising, then, they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.
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I am a keen observer of my own films; I also try to discover myself through the movies I make.
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You need to make a trip to Des Moines in August, because the Iowa State Fair really is a sight to see. The Iowa Fairgrounds are usually packed for those 11 days, and you get a real sense of what a classic Midwest fair is all about.
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It was always my dream to be part of MTV and make history.
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Kanye is the weirdest... He is the weirdest person I know other than me. I've told him that before.
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I wake up every morning and I wish I were dead, and so does Jim.
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Fifteen- to 30-year-olds are interested in all kinds of intelligent movies - it doesn't have to be a broad comedy or an action adventure for them to go see it.
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I keep going to New York every year for 20 to 25 days. I love it there, but I can't imagine settling in any place other than India.
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I can't ever seem to shake the feeling that when things are really good it essentially means that things are going to go really bad. When I feel calm and settled, there is always an underlying feeling of impending doom... I don't think that it's healthy.
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I graduated from the University of Oklahoma, and I got the opportunity to take some on-camera classes while I was in school and met a casting director who informed me quite a bit before my move out to L.A.; it made L.A. feel possible, coming from Oklahoma and not having a family that was in the industry.
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I just always want to play people. I don't want it to be necessarily that you relate to the character as female or male, but that you relate to them as a person. That's the driving force.
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I have a small house so I borrow everything except art, that's what I love.
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We think that without cooperation with the Russians, we cannot achieve our goals.
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You know, when the cost of capital goes down, when credit becomes cheap, people start taking greater and greater risks.
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Finishing books - and leaving the world you've created - is always a kind of emotionally wrenching experience. I usually cry.
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What does democracy come down to? The persuasive power of slogans invented by wily self-seeking politicians.
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There's no way I can represent for everyone. I can't represent for all women or all big women or all black women. It's important for people not to make celebrities their source of who they should be in life. I can't take on the pressure of being perfect. Nobody is.
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My family owned a bunch of pharmaceutical manufacturing plants and other consumer-goods manufacturing plants. We would license Western goods and manufacture them in Iran and distribute them throughout the Middle East.
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And, because of the life that I shared with these two amazing women [her mother and maternal grandmother] and the hardships and struggles that I saw them overcome, I learned an invaluable lesson, and that is that women can do anything we set our minds to... and then some!
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The seated lotus postures are an amazing way to go into meditation, or simply just to take a moment to ground oneself.
