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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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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I go back and forth between indie and studio because I feel like it, not because I feel obligated to do one or the other.
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Russia can be quite a dangerous place sometimes, but I never think about it.
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I am not ever in the business of making anyone feel bad.
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In some ways, technology keeps on enhancing us, and we embrace it.
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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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We filmed one scene on the beach and there was definitely weird energy around, and we were followed around by a white owl to several different locations, and little things like that, or certain mishaps would happen and you'd have to wonder what that was about.
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The proletariat uses the State not in the interests of freedom but in order to hold down its adversaries, and as soon as it becomes possible to speak of freedom the State as such ceases to exist.
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I like to make colored xeroxes of things. I clip out pictures of Liza Minelli and her husband from magazines and I fax them to people anonymously.
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If our nation is to rebuild opportunity for future generations, it will require our elected leaders to realize that their responsibility lies not with their political party, but rather with the American people that they have been chosen to represent.
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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.
