Paulina Porizkova Quotes

After I finished working for Estee Lauder, I stopped being a professional model. I decided to never again advertise something that I don't actually use. I only sign up for things that I truly believe in.

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• My father was a very gregarious, very open guy. So every weekend, the house was full of people.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • People
  • Father
  • Guy

• Anyone familiar with my work knows that I am extremely critical of all religious faiths.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Work
  • Religious
  • Critical

• When I was in high school in the early 1970s, we knew we were running out of oil; we knew that easy sources were being capped; we knew that diversifying would be much better; we knew that there were terrible dictators and horrible governments that we were enriching who hated us. We knew all that and we did really nothing.

  

  Carl Safina
  • School
  • High
  • Running

• Terrorism should be seen in the light of the country's security and not from the narrow perspective of caste, creed and religion.

  

  Oscar Fernandes
  • Country
  • Light
  • Religion

• I have got prostate cancer, and I have to keep monitoring that. It's no problem, it's under control and I'm very cool about it, but other people are dying from it.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • People
  • Control
  • Problem

• As a free-speech advocate, I believe that adults should have access to any material they want. As a parent, and a community member, I think people should be able to protect their homes from imagery - much of it violent - that is, I feel, a form of child abuse when adult society inflicts it upon children.

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • People
  • Believe
  • Children

• When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.

  

  Abbie Hoffman
  • Men
  • Free
  • Speak

• In the past, the West had tried to export one formula of democracy which should fit to the rest of the world, and they discovered that this doesn't work.

  

  Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair
  • World
  • Work
  • Past

• It is true that they paid much more attention to the trade unions because the trade unions were after all speaking for the rights and conditions of working men and women in their employment.

  

  Barbara Castle
  • Men
  • Women
  • True

• I'm an Indian-origin painter. I will remain so to my last breath.

  

  M. F. Husain
  • Will
  • Breath
  • Last

• I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too - what I should wear.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Music
  • Always
  • Dresses

• I do everything in a straightforward manner.

  

  Harmon Killebrew
  • Everything
  • Manner

• The food system is not a free market. In this country, we impose reasonably high standards of animal welfare - but we haven't applied the same standards to food we import, so all we're really doing is exporting cruelty from Britain elsewhere, and at the same time undermining our farmers.

  

  Zac Goldsmith
  • Time
  • Country
  • High

• Versace designs have always been bootlegged. Now it's Versace bootlegging the bootleg for the bootleggers to bootleg the bootleg.

  

  M.I.A.
  • Always
  • Now
  • Been

• If you think it's hard to meet new people, try picking up the wrong golf ball.

  

  Jack Lemmon
  • People
  • Up
  • Sports

• People get tired of you. So they decided to throw me out. And so help me God, as the numbers were coming in, I said to myself, 'I'm free at last.'

  

  Ed Koch
  • People
  • God
  • Help

• Educators shouldn't be afraid of cliches. You know why? Because kids don't know most of them! They're a new audience. And they're inspired by cliches.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • Why
  • Kids
  • Know

• I love Johnny Cash, and I respect Johnny Cash. He's the biggest. He's like an Elvis in this business, but no, he's never been the rebel.

  

  Waylon Jennings
  • Love
  • Business
  • Respect

• Things with my dad were pretty good until I won an Academy Award. He was really loving to me until I got more attention than he did. Then he hated me.

  

  Tatum O'Neal
  • Good
  • Pretty
  • Dad

• I'm very interested in silence. And, more importantly, in what happens when people aren't talking on stage. I'm interested in letting actors play and do things between the lines. And in slowing everything down.

  

  Annie Baker
  • People
  • Silence

• It's the bane of existence for anyone in comedy. 'The photograph must be funny!' So the people coordinating the shoot throw rubber chickens at you, 20 at a time. Or put a feathered hat on you. Or give you a clown nose. Of course, all of this makes you depressed, so you wind up looking more like you're promoting A Long Day's Journey Into Night.

  

  Martin Short
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• I could maybe coach kids' basketball. I know enough about basketball where I feel like I could coach 12-year-olds pretty effectively.

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • Kids
  • Pretty
  • Know

• These 'Sports Illustrated' people, they know how to hold a secret.

  

  Bar Refaeli
  • People
  • Know
  • Sports

• After I finished working for Estee Lauder, I stopped being a professional model. I decided to never again advertise something that I don't actually use. I only sign up for things that I truly believe in.

  

  Paulina Porizkova
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  • Believe
  • Model