Christy Turlington Quotes
Many models I knew had come from broken families. That makes a significant difference in the way you handle yourself and the choices you make.
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I love when you aren't accountable to anybody or anything, and you can just be wherever you are.
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My aim is to change the social norms of Pakistan; women here look up to me. I started very early, worked on myself, and the effect is for all to see.
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I think that its easy to think of the environment as all doom and gloom and that, 'What can we do, it's too late. And the polar bears are gone, and everything is gone.' But really, just the little steps that we can make as individuals make a big difference.
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I've always written pop songs. I tend to take inspiration from more experimental genres, like ambient music, but at the root of the song, it's verse-chorus-verse.
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Always farm fresh eggs, never store bought.
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China is a country, still, of great contrast. While hundreds of millions of people are part of the middle class and yearn for things made in America - American brands, movies, music - there are other hundreds of millions of people throughout China who are living on the equivalent of one U.S. dollar a day.
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I read Shakespeare when I was 14 because it's what we were taught.
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This is the heart of my argument: We can put more pressure on the antagonist for whom we show human concern.
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Faith is a higher faculty than reason.
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Whenever I received too much praise, it just didn't feel right to me – ever.
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In some ways, technology keeps on enhancing us, and we embrace it.
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The fold is that place where He keeps His flock shut behind the hurdles of the Ten Commandments. Every now and then, a sheep leaps one of these hurdles or pushes his way between them and runs away into forbidden pastures. Then the Good Shepherd goes after the erring sheep and brings it back.
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The federal government has not been effective enough monitoring and surveilling bad guys.
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I take pride in taking care of all the housework so that my wife, who works as a designer for Martha Stewart, won't need to sacrifice any of her leisure time when she gets home.
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What is most important to the history of the world? The Taliban or the collapse of the Soviet empire? Some stirred-up Moslems or the liberation of Central Europe and the end of the Cold War?
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Peace along with freedom and justice are the pillars for attaining both security and stability and will pave the way towards the eradication of oppression, extremism, and terrorism in our world.
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We don't have any power other than our intellect and our hearts.
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The wisdom and experience of older people is a resource of inestimable worth. Recognizing and treasuring the contributions of older people is essential to the long-term flourishing of any society.
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The greatest theatre that I experienced in my life was The Living Theatre and they were Off-Off-Broadway. And that was in the fifties.
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When you lie down with dogs, you get up with fleas.
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We are ready to work hard, work together to re-elect President Barack Obama. We must do it because women deserve to make their own choices and determine the course of their lives.
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You meet people, and you're like, 'I don't know how I feel about you,' and someone does something surprising that changes your mind. We're interesting creatures; we're nuanced, complicated and layered, and we make all sorts of choices.
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Many models I knew had come from broken families. That makes a significant difference in the way you handle yourself and the choices you make.
