Alek Wek Quotes
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I would be too selfish if I said everyone should see my movies more than once. To say that would mean I'm just marketing my work!
Abbas Kiarostami -
Corruption is everywhere. It's not just in the Congress. Corruption is not just your prerogative or mine.
Kapil Sibal -
Any of the rewards or accolades or any of that are very nice and everything but the music is what saves me. And it did. I would write my way out of any kind of depressing period.
Randy Houser -
I think the Catholic faith is consistent with the kind of conservatism I believe in.
Pat Buchanan -
My uncles and other relatives are against encouraging girls in every aspect, and that includes sports. I hardly interact with them. My parents are more open. They back me all the way.
Saina Nehwal -
Throughout history, clothes represented who you were; they are a great vehicle for explaining who you are. During the Ching dynasty, for example, what you wore and how it was made reflected your status in society. People could literally read your clothes like a book, just by its color and how it was embroidered.
Iris Apfel
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When it comes to extracurricular activities, many children are getting too much of a good thing.
Carl Honore -
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.
Malcolm Turnbull -
Doing it your own way, not having to go exactly by the book to be successful.
Ice Cube -
I got a little house in East L.A. and did the gardening. I was doing some acting here and there, doing my own thing... getting back to reality.
Adam Ant Adam and the Ants -
My wish is to bring my heroes to the big screen, and many of them have already appeared in my films.
Jackie Chan -
I know my music probably isn't going to matter to the public after I die, but that doesn't mean I don't have something to offer.
Natalie Imbruglia
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If I don't think about anything, and start with a clean slate, in terms of what I have to do, a lot of different ideas come up, and I can think about things more openly.
Namie Amuro -
My friends have to remind me that it's OK to own the fact that you're good at something. I think it'll just come with getting older.
Thebe Neruda Kgositsile -
Chaos, rudis indigestaque moles.
Ovid -
To my friends pictured within.
Edward Elgar -
The printed word will be around long after many of our digital creations are gone, either because books don't require monthly hosting, and blogs and websites do... or because the languages and platforms for which a particular digital creation was published will become obsolete.
Jeffrey Zeldman -
Eviction is part of a business model at the bottom of the market.
Matthew Desmond
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I love high concept movies, but they can only work if the source of inspiration is really human - if they're driven by pain and strong emotions. Once you connect the audience with that, then I swear you can take them on the craziest journey, and they'll come along.
James Wan -
In rock and roll, homosexuality was accepted, but it was less cool to say it.
John Cameron Mitchell -
Buddhism calls anger 'corruption of the mind,' Manicheism 'root of the tree of death.' I know this, but what good does it do me to know?
Emil Cioran -
As time goes on and you become more comfortable in your career path, and things are starting to make sense, and it's not just about work, you find that you're able to focus on other things and other people.
George Clooney -
At root, the Tea Party is nothing more than a them-versus-us thing.
Matt Taibbi -
There's never too much you can do.
Alek Wek