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.
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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.
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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.
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I think Twitter is the future of communications and Square will be the payment network.
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I've never been one to sit around and eat my heart out. Life's too short.
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Ten men waiting for me at the door? Send one of them home, I'm tired.
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Can a moment of madness make up for an age of consent?
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My assignment was in the communications office, where I typed out dispatches.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Everywhere your eye travels in your home, it should land on something that resonates with you.
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I just wish that people will be kinder to me when I pass away.
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Mum is the girliest of them all, but she ended up with me, the tomboy.
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The people know their rights, and they are never slow to assert and maintain them when they are invaded.
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I had a couple CDs. But I never had that first concert experience, that first record thing.
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One of the joys of going to the movies was that it was trashy, and we should never lose that.
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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.
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It's weird: you do a TED talk on something, and people think that you suddenly have a lot of answers around the topic.
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I would hate for people to think that 'Strong Island' is just about a family's grief. It is about a family's grief, yes, but it is also an interrogation of our criminal justice system.
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Today, the notion of progress in a single line without goal or limit seems perhaps the most parochial notion of a very parochial century.
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As far as feeling freedom in my career now versus five years ago... I think if I feel any more free it's simply because of the experiences that I've had, and the wisdom I've accumulated from that time.
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It is only when we have ceased to be the followers of our followers that we comprehend how meaningless followers are.
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I was working part-time as a cleaner while I was going to college and then babysitting after school.
