Alek Wek Quotes

Beauty should not be culturally relevant; it should be universal.

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• There was just a lot of comedy on the TV in the house, and my parents are both very funny.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • House
  • Parents
  • Funny

• Death is better than slavery.

  

  Harriet Ann Jacobs
  • Death
  • Better
  • Slavery

• Do your job; be the best at whatever your job description is.

  

  Randy Moss
  • Job
  • Best
  • Description

• When a single author uploading his own books to Amazon can earn more money than a large N.Y. publisher exploiting both print and e-rights, there's something amiss.

  

  J. A. Konrath
  • Money
  • Single
  • Author

• Like the old Italian saying goes, 'It ain't rocket surgery.'

  

  Nadia Giosia
  • Old
  • Saying
  • Italian

• No one pays me to be nice.

  

  Aaron Allston
  • Me
  • Nice
  • Pays

• Well, first I have to make the team, of course.

  

  Carly Patterson
  • Team
  • First
  • Well

• L.A. still ranks as one of my guilty pleasures, along with butter-pecan ice cream and Coldplay albums.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Guilty
  • Ice
  • Ice Cream

• Japan's biggest problems are conservatism and cowardice.

  

  Tadashi Yanai
  • Problems
  • Japan
  • Cowardice

• To me, evil comes when you have a choice between that and good, and you choose the wrong way.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • Good
  • Evil
  • Choice

• Culture follows power.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • Power
  • Culture
  • Follows

• I'm a pro-horserace guy.

  

  Nate Silver
  • Guy

• At 25, I was in the audience of my first professional speaker, Bob Bales. His presentation got my attention. I had never seen anyone having so much fun 'at work' and getting paid for it!

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Work
  • Fun
  • Attention

• Acting is really about having the courage to fail in front of people.

  

  Adam Driver
  • People
  • Courage
  • Acting

• Diversity is really a richness for mankind.

  

  Fabiola Gianotti
  • Diversity
  • Mankind
  • Richness

• I'd have to say the biggest transformation would be my schedule. I'm really, really busy, but it's a lot of fun.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Fun
  • Transformation
  • Busy

• Before 'Titanic,' yes, I had done some things and, yes, I had been nominated for an Academy Award, but I had never been sort of world-famous. And I suppose, yes, I am really famous now. But I feel embarrassed to say that because it's just a bit daft for me.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • World
  • Famous
  • Titanic

• Raising the minimum wage is the right thing to do, but it's a popular thing to do as well.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Popular
  • Right
  • Wage

• I told myself a while back, 'Love what you do, but don't fall in love with what you do.' That way you won't be brokenhearted if ever it gets canceled five episodes in - which has happened to me.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Love
  • Me
  • Fall

• I think that was one of the things that happened, especially in Ireland, that you left in order to improve yourself, and you couldn't write home and tell people, 'Look, I'm really lonely,' because you'd realize how much those letters were going to matter, that you needed to put good news or uplifting news into them.

  

  Colm Toibin
  • People
  • Good
  • Home

• Coming off 'House of Cards,' playing someone so straight-laced, I was getting offered a lot of F.B.I. agents.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • House
  • Someone
  • Cards

• I believe the people who are most successful are those committed to bringing out the best in other people through awakening & empowerment.

  

  Ziad K. Abdelnour
  • I Believe
  • Committed
  • Awakening

• Every city I go to is an opportunity to paint, whether it's Omaha or Hawaii.

  

  Tony Bennett
  • Opportunity
  • City
  • Hawaii

• Beauty should not be culturally relevant; it should be universal.

  

  Alek Wek