Alek Wek Quotes
It was the most exciting thing to leave secondary school and go to college, to have that freedom to study whatever I wanted.
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I wanted to become a college coach. I got game films of all the good college coaches - Pete Newell at California, Eddie Donovan with St. Bonaventure, Ken Loeffler at LaSalle.
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So I moved to Europe and only came back when directors like Robert Altman would call me after they'd seen my work in Full Metal Jacket.
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I don't like possessions.
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If death weren't around to 'finalize' the Darwinian process, we'd all still be amoebas.
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Discipline and united action are the real source of strength for the nation.
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I just don't tend to cook eggplant at home.
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I think, the people around home are very supportive to us.
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Television shows and movies that are all white, I can't watch them. They totally alienate me.
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My favorite soundtrack is 'Avatar.' It's the best thing in the world. I love it.
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As a writer, as much as I try, I can't stop writing female characters. They have so much more to offer; they have to wear so many different hats. There's so much wonderful gray matter in a female's life that it just makes for a stronger character.
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I want to tour, everywhere I can, all of the world.
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I'd probably describe my sense of humor as 'twisted,' I guess. It's not hard to make me laugh, especially when I'm surrounded by my close friends, especially my bandmates.
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One of my dreams is to walk down the runway during Fashion Week!
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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.
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When a man says he approves of something in principle, it means he hasn't the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice.
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Sometimes I thank God... for cheeseburgers.
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My Smiths, my Carters, the Cashes - everybody embraced me and held my arms up when I couldn't do it myself.
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Any personal crisis - you have to use it to get stronger.
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I play in front of 70,000 fans week in and week out, and I may drop the ball in practice, I may run the ball the wrong way, but once it's game time, it's game on.
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In dating, the question is how many Tinder knockoffs are we going to have, and are any of them going to take off?
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There ought to be a million-person march on the Mall... that can be heard in the living quarters of the White House.
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I run a program called Amer-I-Can. We've taught in prisons, schools, juvenile facilities and we teach in the community. We have the greatest record from the standpoint of dealing with grade point averages, disciplinary action and attendance in schools.
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I think that right now, the global political crisis that we see all over the place has to do with virulent nostalgia. Everywhere, people are talking about taking us back to the good old days. Whether that's the "caliphate," or Britain before the EU, or "Make America Great Again." But, we can't go back and many people wouldn't want to go back even if we could.
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It was the most exciting thing to leave secondary school and go to college, to have that freedom to study whatever I wanted.
