Alek Wek Quotes

Black girls, I feel, rock, in so many ways, especially coming from five girls.

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• All it takes is one drink to mess with the way you drive - it clouds your judgment and slows your reflexes. Don't take any chances. It just isn't worth it.

  

  Paris Hilton
  • Drink
  • Judgment
  • Clouds

• The vampires in the 'VAMPS' series judge each other as harshly as they judge humans, and basically, vampires don't get along very well. So you've got a culture that's from cradle to grave like the worst high school you've ever been in.

  

  Nancy A. Collins
  • School
  • High
  • Culture

• 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.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Work
  • Money
  • Think

• I used to be obsessed with race. I'm more obsessed with class now.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • More
  • Now
  • Class

• I don't do fake. That's the first thing you should know about me. I'm not one to put on airs or change my demeanor depending on where I am or who I am talking to.

  

  Carli Lloyd
  • Change
  • Fake
  • Talking

• The mistake of the West was to put the Sauds on the throne of Saudi Arabia and give them control of the world's oil fortune, which they then used to propagate Wahhabi Islam.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • World
  • Control
  • Mistake

• Whether I sound like Sammy or not is purely coincidence. You have got to hand it to him, he sings his ass off. There is no moss on that stone.

  

  Gary Cherone Van Halen
  • Hand
  • Sound
  • Stone

• What the 'supposed 99 percent' don't realize is that they are better off if there are more fat cats, not less.

  

  Foster Friess
  • Better
  • Cats
  • Fat

• We develop our propensity to forgive or not to forgive by what we see illustrated at the early ages of our development.

  

  T. D. Jakes
  • Development
  • Forgive
  • Early

• I want to thank all the women who have worn my clothes, the famous and the unknown, who have been so faithful to me and given me so much joy.

  

  Yves Saint Laurent
  • Women
  • Joy
  • Famous

• I have made it a rule for a long time, not to part with the copyright of my drawings, for I have been so copied, my drawings reproduced and sold for advertisements and done in ways I hate.

  

  Kate Greenaway
  • Time
  • Long
  • Done

• I'm proposing a change: love thy worker-bee. Celebrate the ones who toil without complaint, play on a team, construct the hive, produce the honey... executing the plan!

  

  Nancy Lublin
  • Love
  • Team
  • Change

• Being a pop star is something I don't think I'm very good at. I'm worried it's making me too paranoid, because all of a sudden, life has become this constant assessment. When you put something out there and people get to hear it, then those people react to it, socially, culturally.

  

  Laura Mvula
  • People
  • Life
  • Star

• Happiness is nothing but temporary moments here and there - and I love those. But I would be bored out of my mind if I were happy all the time.

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • Mind
  • Moments
  • Happiness

• Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism.

  

  Barry Goldwater
  • Time
  • Creative
  • Equality

• I'm the kind of person that if I try to throw it hard, it doesn't come out as good. So my whole thought process is to stay smooth, stay on top of the ball, and just get my hand out in front.

  

  Jacob deGrom
  • Good
  • Hand
  • Thought

• I think riots happen when communities are under pressure for long periods of time. That's not a mistake.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Time
  • Long
  • Think

• I've read that the ancient Chinese art of feng shui can bring a sense of peace, well-being, and positive energy to a home - same as beer.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • Art
  • Home
  • Energy

• I have no problem with the idea of comfort, but it is not an important thing aesthetically. If you look at a shoe and immediately say it looks very comfortable, in terms of design, it is not going to excite me. Of course, I am not putting nails in my shoes to ensure everybody is in pain, but a heel is not a pair of slippers and never will be.

  

  Christian Louboutin
  • Important
  • Pain
  • Design

• I want to work with great filmmakers and great actors and get better as an actor.

  

  Bradley Cooper
  • Work
  • Great

• I did not want to be the best black man of the year; I wanted to be the best man of the year.

  

  Daley Thompson
  • Man
  • Black
  • Best

• Technical things are getting more mechanical. Take 'Swan Lake,' the Black Swan pas de deux. Now, my goodness, they're turning not just 32 fouettes - but double or triple pirouettes.

  

  Natalia Makarova
  • Black
  • Goodness
  • Lake

• Being a black lesbian myself, I roll my eyes a little bit when I see black lesbian characters on shows where it's purely there for decoration. You can just hear it in the writers room... 'What if we make her a lesbian?'

  

  Lena Waithe
  • Black
  • Eyes
  • Lesbian

• Black girls, I feel, rock, in so many ways, especially coming from five girls.

  

  Alek Wek
  • Black
  • Rock