Alek Wek Quotes

I used to have nightmares about the civil war when I got to England at ages 14 to 15. It took me some years to get over that.

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• I was a hot-dog stand lady, I was an orphan housemother, I was a waitress 3 or 4 times. All of those jobs did not have good bosses. They basically told you what to do, when to do and when to hop. And I just didn't like that very much.

  

  Barbara Corcoran
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• In the '60s not everybody was wearing flowers in their hair and flowing caftans.

  

  Baz Luhrmann
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• I've leased the apartment; my partner is going to come out here. But we're keeping our house in Chicago because real estate is a really good investment and also because it is just crammed with full of stuff!

  

  Ted Allen
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• War is death. If we are to engage in war, then we should have to stare it straight in the face and call it by its rightful name.

  

  Aaron Huey
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• I don't think I'd want a revival. I'm not doing a tribute to myself.

  

  Dan Hicks
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• You may talk of the tyranny of Nero and Tiberius; but the real tyranny is the tyranny of your next-door neighbor.

  

  Walter Bagehot
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• Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.

  

  Tacitus
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• If people don't want to come to the ballpark, how are you going to stop them?

  

  Yogi Berra
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• I fell in love with acting, just going to a lot of plays. My parents went to a lot of plays, and I went to a lot of schools that would get plays for kids.

  

  Patrick J. Adams
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• I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic.

  

  Abigail Adams
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• My dad was a designer for Upper Deck, and I had hundreds of Ken Griffey Jr. cards. Hundreds. I could have paid for college with them.

  

  Vernon Wells
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• I also didn't consider myself a huge baby person.

  

  Rachel Dratch
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• When I was young, no one got married. Now, all the young people, they want to get married, they want security. Now that my children's friends are getting married, I go to more weddings than I ever did when I was young.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
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• Any New York group can come to L.A. and sell out every show, but an L.A. group who goes to New York might not do the same because the audience hasn't been introduced to the group.

  

  Ice T
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• My dresses are designed to win, so going through it, I think about, what do I want to represent? So, definitely, Vera Wang has been an inspiration for me.

  

  Venus Williams
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• I totally consider Fishbowl my full time job - I have to say I freaking love doing this blog. I just enjoy the medium so much; I love the fact that it requires me to read amazing stuff by hilarious and talented people and forces me to know what's going on in the world.

  

  Rachel Sklar
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• One extends one's limits only by exceeding them.

  

  M. Scott Peck
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• There's no way I can represent for everyone. I can't represent for all women or all big women or all black women. It's important for people not to make celebrities their source of who they should be in life. I can't take on the pressure of being perfect. Nobody is.

  

  Queen Latifah
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• Mascara is my daily essential. I pile it on top and bottom lashes during the day. If I'm going out, I'll add the individual Eylure lashes at the outer corners for more drama.

  

  Ashley Madekwe
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• Every night, it's a bakery on the bus. It's a curse, because I talk about how much I love cake, people bring me cake. And now I just found out I'm diabetic, so I'm like, are you kidding me?!

  

  Gabriel Iglesias
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• The course of the United States in World War II, I said, was dishonest, dishonorable, and ignominious, and the Sunpapers, by supporting Roosevelt's foreign policy, shared in this disgrace.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • World
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• I didn't want to write a 'this is how it is' Iraq book, because the Iraq War is an intensely complicated variety of things.

  

  Phil Klay
  • Book
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• The measure of civilization in a people is to be found in its just appreciation of the wrongfulness of war.

  

  Philip James Bailey
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• I used to have nightmares about the civil war when I got to England at ages 14 to 15. It took me some years to get over that.

  

  Alek Wek
  • War