Naomi Campbell Quotes
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It's a new challenge to see how people can change your look. I like words like transformation, reinvention, and chameleon. Because one word I don't like is predictable.
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I like to control everything, and you cannot control everything. You have to at some point say, 'I let go and I'm going to let the cards fall where they fall... For a control freak, it's hard.
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I make a lot of money and I'm worth every cent.
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What I like about gyrotonics is you feel like you really elongated yourself for the day... As we all get older, everything changes and moves, and there's natural ways to exercise. I think it's important, and I think it's something that can help keep things in place.
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I'm always trying to do the impossible to please people. It comes from not being secure in myself and not looking at the things within I have to fix. Sometimes you keep going because you don't want to face the truth.
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When I first got Yves Saint Laurent Couture, I didn't know how to take off a cape. I would ask Katoucha and Dalma - the real divas of the runway - 'Can you show me?' I've never been afraid to ask for help.
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The chocolate and crisps come in at times. You have to allow the little things that make you happy. I'm not extreme about what I eat.
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I love England, especially the food. There's nothing I like more than a lovely bowl of pasta.
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I don't think I was born beautiful. I just think I was born me.
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I would ask my mother to show me how to walk - and she did show me. That's why I think it's funny when people say, 'Did so-and-so teach you how to walk?' And I always say, 'You must be talking about my mother, because it was my mother who taught me how to walk.'
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I was born in London and raised in Rome until I was 4. Then we went back to London, where I went to school.
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I cannot drink or do anything that changes the mind.
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I don't worry about a number. I'm fine with aging.
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Everyone has a temper. A temper is an emotion.
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Look, you have to make mistakes. That's how you learn and that's how the world works.
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Anger is a manifestation of a deeper issue... and that, for me, is based on insecurity, self-esteem and loneliness.
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I don't like workouts that make you bulky.
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I love mentoring young girls. I've always been like that.
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Feeling passionate about something doesn't mean you have to be angry.
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When I started out modeling, there weren't casting directors and there weren't stylists, so you just dealt directly with the designer. We were all much closer back then.
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I'm very observant and very instinctive. In life, you have to have the vulnerability to accept when you are to blame. And I do have that, and I am open enough to say it.
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I work very hard and I'm worth every cent.
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The worst was when my skirt fell down to my ankles, but I had on thick tights underneath.
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I have no regrets. I've got my health.