Alek Wek Quotes
When I was 14, I came to school in London. I remember it was very cold, but also having to adjust and become fluent in English.Alek Wek
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Deeply consider that it is your duty and interest to read the Holy Scriptures.
Adam Clarke -
I'm a New Yorker. My background is in theater, so staying here, I have the opportunity to get back to that, which I would love to do.
Valorie Curry -
I wanted to go to college and play football.
Barry Larkin -
My nephew has type 1 diabetes, and it's my goal and hope that in his lifetime there will be a cure for diabetes. There's no place better to give the money to than the Juvenile Diabetes Association.
Abby Wambach -
Everyone has an idea that they think would be a great movie. Everyone has a cousin who they think you should work with.
Zach Braff -
Frequently you have a clash between the more sterile letter of the law and the justice that underlies it, and I think one of the things I've been trying more or less, where it was possible, is to go with the justice rather than the letter of the law.
Harold H. Greene
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I like to go hear jazz late-night up in Harlem.
Daniel Boulud -
Death will never be pretty - its sights and smells too close and crude. And it will never come under our control: it gallops where we tiptoe, rips up our routines, burns our very breath with its heat and sting.
Nancy Gibbs -
I feel like a member of any group comprised of outsiders.
Baz Luhrmann -
Ideology, politics and journalism, which luxuriate in failure, are impotent in the face of hope and joy.
P. J. O'Rourke -
I was good at math and science, and I got lots of degrees in lots of things, but in a parallel universe, I probably became a chef.
Nathan Myhrvold -
When I was in high school, I earned the pimple award and every other gross-out award.
Jack Nicholson
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There are lines that I know are going to get a belly laugh, but after a few shows I get sick of hearing myself say them so I drop them.
Sammy Davis, Jr. -
I never dreamt, in my dream, I'm Dalai Lama.
Dalai Lama -
It is not proper to project our feelings onto things or to attribute our own sensations and passions to them. Can it also be improper to see in them a guide, a way of life?
Octavio Paz -
When a man says he approves of something in principle, it means he hasn't the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice.
Otto von Bismarck -
I would be happy if they just gave out nominations and there weren't any Oscars. But winning them is definitely an experience - to get up there and make a speech. Every film is hard work, and a few lucky people do get Oscars for what they do, and it's recognition for all that hard work on a certain level.
Walter Murch -
It's like I've experienced quite a weird and unusual life, you know, being with a mom who's a single parent and struggling with money and things like that. It's really hard. And it brings a lot of other insecurities in life and a lot of other issues in life, in school and a bunch of other things.
Fefe Dobson
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I mean, I sing. But I don't think I'm a good enough singer to do any kind of musical.
Christina Ricci -
I'm hoping that other people can learn from me, both the mistakes I've made or the opportunities I've had, or for the decisions I've made: for instance, not to go and take a lot of different jobs in a lot of different places, but to stay in one place for most of my career.
Adena Friedman -
Nobody goes to a movie and watches the script. There is a lot of other stuff going on.
Ben Affleck -
Countless banks around the world are already testing distributed ledger systems in proof-of-concept trials.
Chris Larsen -
There is precious little hope to be got out of whatever keeps us industrious, but there is a chance for us whenever we cease work and become stargazers.
Henry Major Tomlinson -
When I was 14, I came to school in London. I remember it was very cold, but also having to adjust and become fluent in English.
Alek Wek