Alek Wek Quotes
South Sudanese people are rich like the soil; they just need a little water, and they will grow.
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At college, I wanted to be a poet. I liked the extremely concentrated language, the atmosphere of otherworldliness.
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Touring, and being in a band, it's almost like the other stuff, the other parts of life, get put on hold.
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I don't jog, if I die I want to be sick.
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There comes a time when money doesn't matter.
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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.
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I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
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I am hopeful that no one will forget what happened in Bosnia.
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If I were to work with my mom, I probably would not want her to play my mom. That would get too real.
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Many people in this world are still so identified with every thought that arises in their head. There is not the slightest space of awareness there.
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The 77 cents that women make for every dollar men earn makes a real difference to our families - families stretching to make every dollar count.
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Without doubt, machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers.
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Across the Atlantic, in the scattered, far-flung, rural settlements of colonial America, hospitality had become a central concern, and hostesses, like peacocks displaying their iridescent plumage, tried to outdo one another with their creative food displays.
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I think all television has to be about relationships and I don't think horror for the sake of it can work unless you're able to ground it in some kind of relationship.
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Moderate doesn't mean that you're a wimp - far from it. It means that you've chosen a path because you believe that's the only way for global harmony and peace.
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When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.
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Americans are generally decent and fair people with a commitment to sense, but some of us, swept up by our passions, wade too far into a sea of sensibility.
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Broadcasters or politicians or writers who think that they are respecting Struggle Street, the battlers, by dumbing things down into one-line sound bites are not respecting them, they are treating them with contempt. It's our job above all in politics to tackle the big issues and to explain them.
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I think, in Spain, they are too used to reaching the limits of democracy and then stepping over them.
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I was a basketball player. And my mother even wanted me to quit because I hurt my leg. But I didn't know anything about football - from Pee-Wee on up, my friends would play, and I would never go with them.
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If you think about it, many of the great inventions of the last 200 years were designed to replace human labor. Tractors were developed to substitute mechanical power for human physical toil.
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It's not my job to look good. It's my job to make other people look good.
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If you taste something, you're not at the maximum of your ability. What I think about in competition is temperature and texture. It has nothing to do with taste or emotion.
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The fact that my mother's life was cut short is something that pushes me to always move forward and live the best life I possibly can. In a way, I feel like I can take her along with me through every experience, and in that sense, her beautiful energy and spirit will live on.
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South Sudanese people are rich like the soil; they just need a little water, and they will grow.
