Alek Wek Quotes
Going back to South Sudan after the independence took place was deeply emotional for me because I had gone through the civil war with my family just before going to seek refuge in London.
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I was raised looking at women who were strong, and they weren't really into playing race cards or playing gender cards. I didn't grow up around women who were like, 'Well, let the boys do that, and let the girls do that.' I didn't really see that in my house.
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Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.
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In the end, I think that people that are not willing to take the risk to fail are not true entrepreneurs.
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If we go back in the history of different nations, violence and the use of force are part of their heritage. These are the traditions of mankind.
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The one thing I do have is good ears. I don't mean perfect pitch, but ears for picking things up. I developed my ear through piano theory, but I never had a guitar lesson in my life, except from Eric Clapton off of records.
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I had my father, and he was an amazing man and an amazing role model, so I always wanted to mirror that.
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A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.
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I just think that - when a country needs more income and we do, we're only taking in 15 percent of GDP, I mean, that - that - when a country needs more income, they should get it from the people that have it.
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I can't think of anything I hate more than a former punk - they are the most self-righteous people in the world.
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As a kid, I dreamed of being a pop star, a glamorous woman and traveling the world. And I've done that all my life.
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My people. I have given them a sense of individuality, integrity. I have not made them slaves of any god or any religion. Nor of any holy book or any priest. I have certainly not replaced their god. They are all a part of what I call my traveling circus.
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Nothing recedes like progress.
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Today, India is a nuclear weapons state.
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Sometimes people talk about music, whether blogs or magazines, in a strange way where it doesn't seem like they're actually listening to it.
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I looked for the same pitch my whole career, a breaking ball. All of the time. I never worried about the fastball. They couldn't throw it past me, none of them.
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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.
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You can start right where you stand and apply the habit of going the extra mile by rendering more service and better service than you are now being paid for.
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By definition, startups are not constrained by the limits of established company culture. And so they push boundaries and develop new technologies and ways of doing things.
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From time immemorial artistic insights have been revealed to artists in their sleep and in dreams, so that at all times they ardently desired them.
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Our first iteration of driverless cars kind of drove like trolleys on a track. This uncanny notion threw people off.
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I have received nasty e-mails, messages on Twitter and ridiculous comments, not only about my size, but my family.
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To be selected was an honor, and in respect of the family member chosen to run, families held feasts and gave away prized beaver coats, quilled tobacco bags and buffalo hides.
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Traditional businesses can say, 'We're going to sell widgets to people, and it will make X amount of profit.' But new business models are hard.
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Going back to South Sudan after the independence took place was deeply emotional for me because I had gone through the civil war with my family just before going to seek refuge in London.
