Alek Wek Quotes

My father made sure of discipline, but my mum, she was serious business.

Alek Wek

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• I resent ever being stereotyped.

  

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• It's just such an honor to say that I was in something by Steven Spielberg. I feel so blessed I got to meet such great people, and I got to go to a beautiful place, Vancouver, and I had a great time.

  

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• As far as everyone else's opinion, I mean, if I would have thought that everyone was right, I probably wouldn't have left Compton, so I don't get too caught up on what the next person thinks.

  

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• I used to write bits and pieces of comedy material for various comics that were at the Windmill... as well as my film job, I was under contract, I was allowed to do that and everything.

  

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• Mr. President, it may surprise my colleagues, but I am no fan of federal disaster programs for agriculture. They are difficult to pass and often a disaster to implement.

  

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• The existing U.N. can be found in the writings of early Communist leaders.

  

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• Well, I certainly did not think that I could do worse.

  

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• People don't slip. Time catches up with them.

  

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• Ever since I was a kid, I've wanted to set a time that nobody can touch for many years.

  

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• I mean, don't forget the earth's about five thousand million years old, at least. Who can afford to live in the past?

  

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• We will fight and defend my good name in the European court. We have to be strong and defend Ukraine from this authoritarianism.

  

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• My dad is an unbelievable entrepreneur who balanced his life as a father and a president of two very successful companies.

  

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• Indeed, there is much in pure humanitarian culture, as opposed to rigid scientific training, which encourages absorption in the affairs of mankind, and more or less indifference to the unfathomed abysses of star-strown space that yawn interminably about this terrestrial grain of dust.

  

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• My father made sure of discipline, but my mum, she was serious business.

  

  Alek Wek
  • Business
  • She
  • Father