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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If you want a future, darling, Why don't you get a past?
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There are certain books in the world which every searcher for truth must know: the Bible, the Critique of Pure Reason, the Origin of Species, and Karl Marx's Capital.
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I'm probably not the only one up at this table that is more outraged by the outrage than we are by the treatment.
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I know plenty of people with kids in elite, private schools and had heard many stories. I have drifted into the homes of some of those very wealthy families in New York and am fascinated with the dynamic and how much freedom the children are given.
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Self-complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of oneself as cause.
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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.