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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Save a boyfriend for a rainy day - and another, in case it doesn't rain.
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Acting is exciting. It is different every time you do it.
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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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When you speak directly at things and don't say you're going to try to do something or that you hope to do something, the universe will work with you. Think about it this way - a boomerang goes out and comes back to you if you throw it. If you throw it out at the universe, it will come back down to you on Earth.
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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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The members of a body-politic call it "the state" when it is passive, "the sovereign" when it is active, and a "power" when they compare it with others of its kind. Collectively they use the title "people," and they refer to one another individually as "citizens" when speaking of their participation in the authority of the sovereign, and as "subjects" when speaking of their subordination to the laws of the state.
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Elevating the status of women is our best path to peace, justice, and prosperity on a global scale.
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I wrote poems in my corner of the Brooks Street station. I sent them to two editors who rejected them right off. I read those letters of rejection years later and I agreed with those editors.
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It's amazing what the Internet can teach you to do.
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I'm not embarrassed to be in advertising. But I'm embarrassed by a lot of advertising.
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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.
