Alek Wek Quotes

For me, it always goes back to what my mother taught me and my sisters. That all women are beautiful, and we should embrace each other.

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• Two things form the bedrock of any open society - freedom of expression and rule of law. If you don't have those things, you don't have a free country.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Country
  • Society
  • Free

• California has always led the way on environmental protection and always reaped the benefits, pioneering everything from catalytic convertors on cars to stationary source reduction.

  

  Ed Begley, Jr.
  • California
  • Environmental

• I could be the best looking guy in the Duma, but that's only because all the other guys are over 60.

  

  Marat Safin
  • Guy
  • Best
  • Looking

• I think same sex couples should be able to get married.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Think
  • Sex
  • Same

• I've made a decision and now I must face the consequences.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Decision
  • Face
  • Consequences

• I wish more people felt that photography was an adventure the same as life itself and felt that their individual feelings were worth expressing. To me, that makes photography more exciting.

  

  Harry Callahan
  • People
  • Life
  • Wish

• The only way reliably to gauge the heat of any particular chilli is to cut it in half, so exposing the core and membranes, and to dab the cut surface on your tongue.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Way
  • Tongue
  • Heat

• Realizing full well that fine condition and confidence will not in themselves make a champion, it is my belief, however, that they are essential factors.

  

  Major Taylor
  • Confidence
  • Belief
  • Champion

• By five or six, when the heels start to hurt, I kick off my shoes and walk bare feet. But that's not a big deal. Nobody else is at the office at that time, and as for singing loudly, I don't sing loudly. I might hum a tune at times when I am thinking about something, but that's all fine.

  

  Indra Nooyi
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Singing

• I had almost three acres of land in Beverly Hills. And I had a big atrium of chickens because I love that feeling of being in the country and living from the soil.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • Country
  • Feeling
  • Living

• Humor is always more interesting when it comes from someone who's had more than, like, five experiences.

  

  Mallory Ortberg
  • Interesting
  • Always
  • Humor

• Boundaries are actually the main factor in space, just as the present, another boundary, is the main factor in time.

  

  Eduardo Chillida
  • Time
  • Space
  • Present

• The first reports of AIDS closely followed the inauguration of President Ronald Reagan, whose 'family values' agenda and alliance with Christian conservatives associated AIDS with deviance and sin.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Family
  • Christian
  • Sin

• I attend Internet conferences all the time, and they literally make the hairs on the back of my neck stand up.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Up
  • Time
  • Internet

• Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Great
  • Small
  • Single

• Conflict is the beginning of consciousness.

  

  M. Esther Harding
  • Beginning
  • Conflict

• I think most Americans don't really care about politicians bickering in Washington.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Think
  • Care
  • Washington

• I like to write a lot of satire.

  

  Earl King
  • Like
  • Write
  • Satire

• I got my first computer in the 6th grade or so. As soon as I got it, I was interested in finding out how it worked and how the programs worked and then figuring out how to write programs at just deeper and deeper levels within the system.

  

  Mark Zuckerberg

• After all, from the Muslim Brotherhood's inception in Egypt in 1928, it has been a revolutionary organization committed to the imposition worldwide of a totalitarian, supremacist Islamic doctrine they call shariah.

  

  Frank Gaffney
  • Organization
  • Islamic
  • Brotherhood

• I believe that we are all, openly or secretly, struggling against one or another kind of nihilism.

  

  Ellen Willis
  • Believe
  • Nihilism

• I was into Batman. I was into Spider-Man.

  

  Dacre Montgomery
  • Batman
  • Spider-Man

• I am a character actress. Well, let's say, I am a leading character actress who does interesting, odd parts.

  

  Imelda Staunton
  • Character
  • Interesting
  • Actress

• For me, it always goes back to what my mother taught me and my sisters. That all women are beautiful, and we should embrace each other.

  

  Alek Wek
  • Women
  • Mother
  • Beautiful