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."

Bethann Hardison

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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.

  

  Camille Claudel
  • Men
  • Night
  • Italian

• 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.

  

  Larisa Oleynik
  • Life
  • Mom
  • Attitude

• 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.

  

  Alexander McQueen
  • Trying
  • Beautiful
  • Woman

• If you don't have a good model for success, just look at what everybody else is doing and do the opposite.

  

  Earl Nightingale
  • Good
  • Success
  • Model

• 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.

  

  Kristen Stewart
  • Want
  • Choices
  • Feels

• Ah! Portraiture, portraiture with the thought, the soul of the model in it, that is what I think must come.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Thinking
  • Soul
  • Models

• The great gifts of models are not that they're more beautiful than the next person, it's that they're able to be photographed and not be self-conscious.

  

  Bono U2
  • Models
  • Gifts
  • Self-Conscious

• 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.

  

  Kathleen Hanna Bikini Kill
  • Attention
  • Musician
  • Roles

• 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.

  

  Emily Haines Broken Social Scene
  • Thinking
  • Girl
  • Play

• 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.

  

  Sandra Cisneros
  • Needs
  • Persons
  • Ability

• I cherish the accomplishments of Margaret Thatcher and will always count her as one of my role models.

  

  Sarah Palin
  • Accomplishment
  • Models
  • Cherish

• 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.

  

  Maurice Merleau-Ponty
  • Science
  • Use
  • Models

• True wisdom consists in not departing from nature and in molding our conduct according to her laws and model.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Wisdom
  • Models
  • Departing

• I think a smile can make your whole body. Models, they look fabulous, but they don't smile, and they look so mad.

  

  Serena Williams
  • Body
  • Looks
  • Models

• 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.

  

  Bill Frisell
  • Together
  • Guy
  • Black

• And of course the things that get the most attention online tend to be similar to those that succeeded under the old model.

  

  Astra Taylor
  • Attention
  • Courses
  • Models

• I really don't think we should label models as 'plus' or 'runway.'

  

  Sara Sampaio
  • Models
  • Label
  • Plus

• 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.

  

  Ann Friedman
  • Jobs
  • Boss
  • Example

• A peer relationship is one where the partners experience an affectionate, companionate coupledom. They are friends. They are the product of the egalitarian model; they are good life partners, but are often less sexual.

  

  Esther Perel
  • Products
  • Models
  • Partners

• If you're a liberal, anything you say is protected. If you're a conservative, anything you say is hateful.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • You
  • Conservative
  • Liberal

• Get on the floor floor like it's your last chance. If you want more, more then here I am.

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • Chance
  • Lasts
  • Flirty

• I grew up in Nazareth, Penn., which was an hour and a half from New York, and an hour and a half from Philly. So bands that were touring came through one way or another. We got to see stuff people in other small towns didn't, like Wesley Willis. I couldn't have asked for a better place to grow up and be into music.

  

  Daughn Gibson
  • People
  • Small
  • Growing

• The belief in predestination and also the swathes of guilt have been the hardest elements to shake. But there are other parts of it that I am extremely grateful for; morality, community, love.

  

  Ben Aldridge
  • Love
  • Morality
  • Predestination

• 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."

  

  Bethann Hardison
  • Models
  • Noting