Alek Wek Quotes
I could never understand why other kids wanted to truant - my education here gave me everything. It's the place where I really got to flourish.
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I really love nature. I grew up in the country. But one of the things about nature is that it is beautiful but it's also very dangerous.
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The brain abhors discrepancies.
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I've found a letter that was written to me from a girl who was getting married. And she wanted to know the secret of a happy marriage. I said - and I wrote back and said something to the effect that I couldn't - I had no magic formula. And I never sat down and thought about it, but everything just fell into place with Ronnie and me.
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The American people know something is wrong as far as energy is concerned. They don't think they are being told the truth.
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This business is based on numbers, and the numbers show that it's worth investing in female-driven and female-directed films.
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While teaching, I also worked undercover in the lower courts by saying I was a young law teacher wanting experience in criminal law. The judges were happy to assist me but what I learned was how corrupt the lower courts were. Judges were accepting money right in the courtroom.
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Just as we might take Darwin as an example of the normal extraverted thinking type, the normal introverted thinking type could be represented by Kant. The one speaks with facts, the other relies on the subjective factor. Darwin ranges over the wide field of objective reality, Kant restricts himself to a critique of knowledge.
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Most people, from their second album on, find it much harder to be as spontaneously creative as they were with their first couple of records, and some people only have one thing that they do.
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Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.
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People say I'm extravagant because I want to be surrounded by beauty. But tell me, who wants to be surrounded by garbage?
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India is a democracy; it is in our DNA.
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In 1998, I founded the American Center for Law and Justice, probably the premier public interest law firm in America defending the rights of believers.
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When I paint, some things come out, and I don't know. Maybe it's because I have such talent as a painter.
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I like visualizing a lot, so the night before a competition and right before, I will visualize myself. I'll close my eyes, turn away from everybody, and just see myself doing exactly what I want to accomplish.
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To all my people back in Nashville who have been there from the start, you put your faith in me. You were there for the long haul.
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American management thinks that they can just copy from Japan. But they don't know what to copy.
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I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.
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White folks hear the blues come out, but they don't know how it got there.
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At the heart of 'The Famished Road' is a philosophical conundrum - for me, an essential one: what is reality? Everybody's reality is subjective; it's conditioned by upbringing, ideas, temperament, religion, what's happened to you.
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I don't understand why people really get upset about something that doesn't affect them at all.
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Well, my mom taught public school music for almost 40 years. And she's about 5 feet - and very mighty. And she would control her kids a lot by giving them the eye, or the stare.
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Honor is self-esteem made visible in action.
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I think the governors would all agree that what we don't want from the federal government is unfunded mandates.
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I could never understand why other kids wanted to truant - my education here gave me everything. It's the place where I really got to flourish.
