Alek Wek Quotes
I think beauty is not just about what we put on our heads or on our faces or what we wear: it's deeper than that, and if we can celebrate that, celebrate the women, not just the superficiality... I think it would be really gorgeous.
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Unfortunately, there is still much to mine in this world and explore creatively.
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I interviewed Johnny Knoxville once. I was kind of scared to interview him because I thought he might be a real jerk, but he was really nice, and I ripped his chest hair out.
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Most people treat the present moment as if it were an obstacle that they need to overcome. Since the present moment is life itself, it is an insane way to live.
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I have no special talent, you know. I never took a writing course before I began to write.
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The Federal Reserve is incapable of accomplishing its stated objectives.
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We expect President Bush to implement his own vision of a two-state solution, the birth of the Palestinian State and the ending of the occupation that started in 1967.
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I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.
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There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.
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There is no ideal body. It's just taking what you have and working it.
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I love the horror genre and the thriller genre, so I've got no problem with playing a psycho.
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One and one is two, and two and two is four, and five will get you ten if you know how to work it.
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Throughout human history, the apostles of purity, those who have claimed to possess a total explanation, have wrought havoc among mere mixed-up human beings.
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A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.
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The laws of the marketplace are physical laws, and they don't become suspended in a crisis any more than the law of gravity does.
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When you are clinically diagnosed with depression as a teenager, sometimes people don't understand it. You feel like you should be happy, especially when you have a very lucky upbringing, and you blame yourself.
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It's really corny to say, but if you are happily married and have good kids, that is about 98 per cent of what you should be seeking to achieve.
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There's the part of my life that the public and I share together. And there's the part that's mine to keep for myself. And that's mine. For me.
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If the Wright brothers hadn't put their lives on the line, we would not be flying around the world these days. So we need pioneers.
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People win Oscars, and then it seems like they fall off the planet. And that's partly because a huge expectation walks in the room and sits right down on top of your head. The moment I won the Oscar, I felt the teardown the very next day.
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We are a global society, and one does not have to be from Germany to give a great performance of Beethoven.
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Instead of getting hard ourselves and trying to compete, women should try and give their best qualities to men - bring them softness, teach them how to cry.
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I think the scientific goals and the technical challenges were the two things that equally motivated me.
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The kids think we're wacky. Mum and Dad are in showbiz - they don't know any other way. They've grown up travelling all over the world and are getting a worldly education. My son is 12 and he can speak eloquently on religions and cultures.
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I think beauty is not just about what we put on our heads or on our faces or what we wear: it's deeper than that, and if we can celebrate that, celebrate the women, not just the superficiality... I think it would be really gorgeous.
