Alek Wek Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.
-
Mum and Dad were very much friends and up for life. There was no anxiety for anything when I was growing up; they just taught me to be me.
-
Sometimes 'Rookie' is written about like, 'Finally! Something for alternative girls!' and I'm like, 'No!' Obviously it's not for everyone, but I used to think that there are cheerleaders, and there are art kids.
-
Carbon's eastern neighbor on the table, nitrogen, dresses up diamonds in pinks, yellows, oranges, and brownish tints known romantically as 'champagne.'
-
One of the things Kuhn said about normal science is that people 'expect' things to be discovered.
-
It's tough to be 68 and dating. I've given it up now.
-
At the end of the day, I'd love to see children stop begging their parents to go to the circus. That's what would make me most happy.
-
Unless you work for '60 Minutes', your life is: You do stories about things, and nothing happens as a result.
-
One of the strangest aspects of living with certain kinds of memory loss is knowing that the forgetting is happening.
-
I just use intuition - would I wear that? Would it feel okay? It's pretty simple, nothing too complicated.
-
I love comedy; I'm very goofy and spontaneous.
-
I have no ties to my dad. I had no communications with him; it didn't shape who I am or anything like that. I'm actually a product of my mom.
-
The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.
-
Home is where your rump rests.
-
I don't know if I'd say I feel green, but I'm getting to know myself as an actor now in a way that I never did as a kid.
-
Well, I think the world changes around you - I think you don't change. That's as simple as that.
-
Being black, Latino, or Asian is not a genre. Romantic comedies, thrillers, action - those are genres. I think there's a lot of people who want to have the conversation. I don't think people are afraid of it, I just think it's the time to have that conversation. Race is not a genre.
-
For better or worse, a lot of people who build things don't want to part ways. They don't have the short exit plan that a lot of the investors have.
-
When I was 11, I realised that I did not have to live the life my mother had: school, marriage, children, apartment, summer house.
-
Government research has to go through peer review.
-
It's wonderful that so many people want to contribute to fighting aids or malaria. But, if somebody isn't paying attention to the overall health system in the country, a whole lot of money can be wasted.
-
Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.
-
We eat to live.
