Alek Wek Quotes
I was working part-time as a cleaner while I was going to college and then babysitting after school.
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
Viggo Mortensen
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My work involves online dating, but I believe almost every behavior exhibited online has an offline corollary. Really, the medium doesn't change human nature.
Sam Yagan
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Nashville is one of the greatest places for the best songwriters in the world. It's been fantastic to live there and to raise our family there. It's a great town.
Faith Hill
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I think Twitter is the future of communications and Square will be the payment network.
Jack Dorsey
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I've never been one to sit around and eat my heart out. Life's too short.
Kate Adie
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Ten men waiting for me at the door? Send one of them home, I'm tired.
Mae West
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Can a moment of madness make up for an age of consent?
Basil Bunting
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My assignment was in the communications office, where I typed out dispatches.
Jack Adams
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All the great evils which men cause to each other because of certain intentions, desires, opinions, or religious principles, are likewise due to non-existence, because they originate in ignorance, which is absence of wisdom.
Maimonides
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All who call the Holy Ghost a creature we pity, on the ground that, by this utterance, they are falling into the unpardonable sin of blasphemy against Him.
Saint Basil
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My mother helped me identify myself the way the world would identify me. Bloodlines didn't matter as much as how I would be perceived.
Halle Berry
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Everywhere your eye travels in your home, it should land on something that resonates with you.
Nate Berkus
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I just wish that people will be kinder to me when I pass away.
Yoko Ono
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Mum is the girliest of them all, but she ended up with me, the tomboy.
Katarina Johnson-Thompson
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The people know their rights, and they are never slow to assert and maintain them when they are invaded.
Abraham Lincoln
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I had a couple CDs. But I never had that first concert experience, that first record thing.
Sam Hunt
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One of the joys of going to the movies was that it was trashy, and we should never lose that.
Oliver Stone
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Some might think that George W. Bush had his shortcomings, but let me tell you something – history's going to be kind to George W. Bush.
J. C. Watts
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When people think about reparations, they immediately think about people who've been dead for 100 years.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
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I learned tolerance at a very early age.
Laurence Fishburne
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I'm attracted to male gestures and sexuality.
Frances McDormand
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By far the most important factor in the success or failure of any school, far more important than tests or standards or business-model methods of accountability, is simply attracting the best-educated, most exciting young people into urban schools and keeping them there.
Jonathan Kozol
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I was working part-time as a cleaner while I was going to college and then babysitting after school.
Alek Wek