Bethann Hardison Quotes
I'd only started noticing that something had gone wrong when I got a call from Naomi Campbell, she called me and said, "You gotta do something about it, it's really bad, they're not using any models of color."
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Last night, two men tried to force my shutters. I recognized them: they are two of Rodin's Italian models. He told them to kill me. I am in his way; he wants to get rid of me.
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I don't know that I have any role models now that are fixed. Definitely my mom - she's the coolest. She's worked really hard her whole life and I just think she's got a great attitude. Moms just know so much it's so silly.
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These beautiful models were walking around in the room, and then suddenly this woman who wouldn’t be considered beautiful was revealed. It was about trying to trap something that wasn’t conventionally beautiful to show that beauty comes from within.
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I don't apply [being a role model] to the choices I make. I feel like a role model is not necessarily someone you want to imitate, just someone you admire.
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Ah! Portraiture, portraiture with the thought, the soul of the model in it, that is what I think must come.
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When you're a musician and you go out onstage, and you're someone who loves attention, you are going to become a role model to some extent.
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I see how 14-year old girls react to me and I think I'm a good role model. Rockstar maybe not, but I'm willing to play with it for a little while, until my hair gets gray.
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The ability to be present with every single person and engage was a great model for me of the work that a writer needs to do. Writers, living or dead, still guide me in many ways.
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I cherish the accomplishments of Margaret Thatcher and will always count her as one of my role models.
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Science manipulates things and gives up living in them. It makes its own limited models of things; operating upon these indices or variables to effect whatever transformations are permitted by their definition, it comes face to face with the real world only at rare intervals. Science is and always will be that admirably active, ingenious, and bold way of thinking whose fundamental bias is to treat everything as though it were an object-in-general - as though it meant nothing to us and yet was predestined for our own use.
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True wisdom consists in not departing from nature and in molding our conduct according to her laws and model.
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I think a smile can make your whole body. Models, they look fabulous, but they don't smile, and they look so mad.
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For me the music community was always like a model for what could be. The way people would play together, just harmony and being - old guys and young guys, black guys and white guys. It was setting an example for what the rest of us could be.
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I really don't think we should label models as 'plus' or 'runway.'
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Someone said to me that we have to encourage more young women to want top-level editing jobs. I think that will happen naturally as we have more role models, more examples of boss ladies who aren't sad and cruel and overworked and undersexed like in DevilWearsPrada, but who are straight-up owning it and notable not for their gender but for their editorial savvy.
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I don't consider anything I'm doing as generous. In the new model of the world, I hope people will consider whatever I'm doing as just normal.
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A business model that hasn't been tried before is always interesting, even if it's likely to fail.
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I've been pounding the table here for a year or so saying there's no free lunch, and there is going to be a day of reckoning for every company that thinks they are going to try and sell a free model.
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Power thrills, consistency kills.
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The law of unintended consequences is the only real law of history.
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I always want to know what's wrong with you, why you ain't smiling. That's just my character; I just love people and want to see people having a good time.
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I'd only started noticing that something had gone wrong when I got a call from Naomi Campbell, she called me and said, "You gotta do something about it, it's really bad, they're not using any models of color."
