Alek Wek Quotes
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Speakers who talk about what life has taught them never fail to keep the attention of their listeners.
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There are really two kinds of optimism. There's the complacent, Pollyanna optimism that says, 'Don't worry - everything will be just fine,' and that allows one to just lay back and do nothing about the problems around you. Then there's what we call dynamic optimism. That's an optimism based on action.
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It's healthy to have interests besides books.
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I don't know about you, but I think blankets are the best, especially your own personal blanket.
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He who would not be idle, let him fall in love.
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I was a very physical child... I was a tree-climber; I was a tomboy.
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A lasting architecture has to have roots.
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As a business person, I want the world to share the prosperity together.
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I do not play golf regularly, but I feel that hitting the moving ball in cricket is tougher than hitting a stationary ball as in golf, which requires more concentration and steady hands.
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I want to have an impact on my son.
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So it's joyful to me, in my 71st year, to be able to be in a play that is absolutely right for my age and my experience, and that is a popular success. What more could you ask as an actor?
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With a film, you just don't have time to build sympathy for the character. But I think we're moving away from that in TV. With TV, you have a little more leeway to allow them to rise and fall and rise again and be much more complicated beings.
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In particular, I found praying very disturbing, like swimming with bricks tied to your feet. And yet I was drawn to it constantly.
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While I have never been more excited about SecondMarket, I have chosen to move on from day-to-day management of the private company/fund business so that I can focus 100% of my energy on our digital currency business.
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I don't want to be liked. I want to be respected.
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It wouldn't bother me at all not to play on my own album.
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Now at 47, 48 I am expected to do ten times better work that I did when I was 24.
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Bragging about yourself violates norms of modesty and politeness - and if you were really competent, your work would speak for itself.
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I was reading this story about these people who suffered from brain injuries, and then their behavior changed kind of drastically afterward, and I just said to myself, 'There's no way that that can possibly be true.'
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A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.
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Robespierre, however, was not the type of leader finally destined to emerge from the Revolution.
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When I was a young writer if you went to a party and told somebody you were a science-fiction writer you would be insulted. They would call you Flash Gordon all evening, or Buck Rogers.
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I have so many choices in America; it's home to so many good things. I'm smart enough to enjoy all the good things that are offered.
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The beauty of reading is that it lets you travel in a way you could never know.
