Alek Wek Quotes
I don't understand when people are being greedy or mean, when they say who should get what, when they get control of someone else's life.
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I was born and brought up in Chennai, as the entire Telugu film industry was based there.
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I had eleven varsity letters. I loved basketball the best, but cross-country is a little more under your control.
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Sex is the ersatz or substitute religion of the 20th Century.
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I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.
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If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.
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We always had money problems. Sometimes I would lie awake at night wondering how to pay the rent.
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Russia can be quite a dangerous place sometimes, but I never think about it.
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Using a dog as a narrator has limitations and it has advantages. The limitations are that a dog cannot speak. A dog has no thumbs. A dog can't communicate his thoughts except with gestures.
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I am not ever in the business of making anyone feel bad.
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I just want to say, 'Go work! It doesn't matter what it is. Work begets work. Just go!'
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I enrolled in an acting workshop and my first acting role was on the TV soap opera 'Melrose Place.'
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A lot of cats in New Orleans, very soulful, very soulful musicians and they assume that they're singers. And they just make that assumption. And so when there's a little intonation problem, people are very forgiving of them because they heard how soulful they play.
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You shouldn't put your hands on a woman. Simple as that.
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Let's face it, us '60s folks had pretty high expectations.
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Well, it's taken a long time to get the Department of Homeland Security established. It's taken a long time for the Congress to decide how much it wanted to fund.
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Basically, particularly in Britain, it's a hegemonic thing that people who write tend to come from the leisure classes. They can afford the time and the books.
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'Baahubali's success augurs well for the Telugu film industry as a whole. It has opened up new markets.
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The positive heuristic of the programme saves the scientist from becoming confused by the ocean of anomalies.
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Dating someone on the opposite end of the happy spectrum teaches you an incredible amount of patience.
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In North America, what happens often is that they put race before nationhood. Everyone here is Hispanic-American, Chinese-American, African-American. But really, we're just North Americans of all these different descents. The only time I notice North Americans becoming national is when a war happens or a crisis happens.
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I started Shutterstock out of my own need. I'd previously created a few software companies, and each time, I struggled to find affordable images to use on my websites.
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Football is like life - it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.
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Healthcare as a human right, it means that every child, no matter where you are born, should have access to a college or trade-school education if they so choose it, and I think no person should be homeless if we can have public structures and public policy to allow for people to have homes and food and lead a dignified life in the United States.
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I don't understand when people are being greedy or mean, when they say who should get what, when they get control of someone else's life.
