Elsa Peretti Quotes

I hated modeling. I was so scared. But as soon as I started doing jewelry, I did better as a model.

Elsa Peretti

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• The world is always in movement.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • World
  • Nature
  • Always

• Acting was something I always wanted to try. I just didn't know how, or I didn't know when the door was gonna be open for me to try it. But it finally opened up for me when I did 'Turn It Up', and ever since then I've been in love with doing films.

  

  Ja Rule
  • Up
  • Love
  • Acting

• I have lived a carnal life.

  

  Sam Kinison
  • Life
  • Lived
  • Carnal

• Do not be misled by what you see around you, or be influenced by what you see. You live in a world which is a playground of illusion, full of false paths, false values and false ideals. But you are not part of that world.

  

  Sai Baba
  • World
  • Live
  • Values

• I really think that in the media world that we live in now, especially for writers, it has to be a conversation. With very few exceptions, it can't be this one-way, 'Here I am on the mountaintop preaching to all of you great unwashed readers in hopes of saving you.' It doesn't work that way.

  

  Dan Pink
  • World
  • Work
  • Great

• 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.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Money
  • Die
  • End

• Fortunately there is more wealth in the world than there was at the time of the global economic crisis of 1929 - Chinese, Indian, Arab and Russian.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Time
  • World
  • Chinese

• What an extraordinary thing it can be, love, how it will not defined by gender, by sexuality, by race, by religion, by anything. It's something else. It's something other.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • Love
  • Religion
  • For Her

• Obviously, it gave me a chance to see Barcelona. I won't deny that. But I also had a chance to see something in another country in terms of recycling and reusing nuclear material.

  

  Ed Pastor
  • Country
  • Me
  • Chance

• Some people are used to having things done for them by her parents, I am not. I can do it myself.

  

  Sally Pearson
  • People
  • Done
  • Parents

• I search for surprise in my architecture. A work of art should cause the emotion of newness.

  

  Oscar Niemeyer
  • Work
  • Art
  • Search

• The extra pass and the extra effort on defense always get the job done.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Done
  • Job
  • Effort

• Broad-mindedness is related to tolerance; open-mindedness is the sibling of peace.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Peace
  • Tolerance
  • Sibling

• I think the thing that I really wanna bring is that I have a full world of music and imagination and ideas that I want to create as an artist, and that's my main thing that I want to do.

  

  Cam
  • World
  • Music
  • Ideas

• Through travel, you discover a new aspect to your personality. You discover things which you wouldn't seated in the confines of your home.

  

  Imtiaz Ali
  • Home
  • Travel
  • Personality

• When the 'New York Times' revealed the warrantless surveillance of voice calls, in December 2005, the telephone companies got nervous.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Voice
  • New
  • New York

• I've covered the White House and been yelled at by presidents.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • House
  • White
  • White House

• My biggest fears aren't with my work. My biggest fears are walking through hospital doors. Once you can face that, being fearless about your work is easy.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Work
  • Walking
  • Fearless

• I feel that when you take the responsibility to host something, it is your job to make sure that all your guests are taken care of equally.

  

  Yolanda Hadid
  • Job
  • Responsibility
  • Taken

• To fly we have to have resistance.

  

  Maya Lin
  • Fly

• The feminists took me as a role model, as a mother. It bothers me. I am not interested in being a mother. I am still a girl trying to understand myself.

  

  Louise Bourgeois
  • Trying
  • Mother
  • Girl

• The business model of Wall Street is fraud. In my view, there is no better example than the recently-exposed illegal behavior at Wells Fargo.

  

  Bernie Sanders
  • Business
  • Model
  • Wall

• Be a good reading role model. Show kids what you like to read, what you don't like to read, how you choose what you read. Let them see you reading.

  

  Jon Scieszka
  • Good
  • Kids
  • Reading

• I hated modeling. I was so scared. But as soon as I started doing jewelry, I did better as a model.

  

  Elsa Peretti
  • Model
  • Jewelry