Naomi Campbell Quotes
I've always been very shy of doing television. I've always said 'no.' Not to be disrespectful to anyone - I didn't want to say 'yes' and then let people down.
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I usually get all my stress and anger out at the gym. But when I get out, I'm kind of a pleasant person - really.
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When the depths are upheld by the Holy Spirit, then the reaction is Christian.
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Public life is regarded as the crown of a career, and to young men it is the worthiest ambition. Politics is still the greatest and the most honorable adventure.
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When I was starting out and had to cut my teeth and build my resume to get in, I had to basically work for free on a lot of things.
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Even though I am the daughter of a poet, and my stepmother is also a poet, growing up, I didn't think I could understand poetry; I didn't think that it had any relevance to my life, the feelings that I endured on a day-to-day basis, until I was introduced to the right poem.
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I always wanted to entertain. When I was little, I would sing in front of the mirror with a hairbrush or my sisters and I would make shows. I always wanted to be on TV.
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I write poems, I meditate. I don't live up to people's expectations. I don't do the conventional cool things - I know I am the coolest person.
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I'm not trying to prove anything for the right or the left. Which gives me freedom to make jokes about either side, too.
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Man is a microcosm, or a little world, because he is an extract from all the stars and planets of the whole firmament, from the earth and the elements; and so he is their quintessence.
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When the peace treaty is signed, the war isn't over for the veterans, or the family. It's just starting.
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I do not think that having children - I have three teenagers - keeps you young. The reverse. It thrusts you into a full-frontal confrontation with your own all-too-obvious maturity.
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I never thought of having cancer as something that was unfair. I just braced myself and tried to get through it.
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Many African-American men are incarcerated. And so African-American women do carry an enormous burden. And traditionally have carried a greater burden than perhaps their white counterparts.
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I think what you wear really does need to reflect what your own personal style is.
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There's an energy in an urban core that you just don't get anywhere else.
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More and more, we're used to taking things in through the eyes rather than through the ears, and opera is more of a spectacle.
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I spent a lot of time doing things other people wanted me to do, so I'm doing what I want to do now.
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Madonna is a creation, so perhaps we should give her and the factory that created her a little credit, but I think that she should quietly disappear now. Poor Madge seems unable to decide whether she wants to look like Marilyn Monroe or Marlene Dietrich.
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American Apparel does great colourful basics that you can customise.
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Many blue-collar families struggling to pay rent would be happy to skip paying optional union dues.
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You may confuse a lot of people when going against the grain of conventional thinking, and that's perfectly okay. As an entrepreneur, standing up for your vision to your family and friends might possibly be the best practice you will get for the life that awaits you.
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There can be no good character in civil government if there is none in the people. You cannot make a good omelet with bad eggs.
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I made movies all the time when I was a kid.
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I've always been very shy of doing television. I've always said 'no.' Not to be disrespectful to anyone - I didn't want to say 'yes' and then let people down.
