Iman Quotes

People called me 'Iman the black model'. In my country, we're all black, so nobody called somebody else black. It was foreign to my ears.

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• Don't assume that the answers are out there in the form of somebody else already doing something. Sometimes they are. But you have to think beyond that.

  

  Abigail Johnson
  • Think
  • Sometimes
  • Doing

• My family are the epicenter of all my decisions.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Family
  • Decisions

• I don't care about image and all that nonsense. I'm in sweat pants every day. I don't play the game at all.

  

  Zach Braff
  • Game
  • Day
  • Everyday

• I drink a fair amount of ramen noodles.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Drink
  • Fair
  • Noodles

• I am the son of peasants and I know what is happening in the villages. That is why I wanted to take revenge, and I regret nothing.

  

  Gavrilo Princip
  • Why
  • Son
  • Regret

• We're here for a little, little bit of time, and I just wanna make the most out of it.

  

  Zara Larsson
  • Time
  • Just
  • Most

• I was always kind of florid. And full of rhetoric. That was my flaw. My whole time writing, I've had to work against that because it can be a wrecking posture.

  

  Barry Hannah
  • Time
  • Work
  • Writing

• Animal vision - including human vision - is so biased toward movement that we don't technically see stationary objects at all.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Vision
  • Animal
  • Human

• 'Brave New World' dealt with a kind of proto-genetic engineering of the unborn, through really, as many dystopias do, it dealt with totalitarianism. The 1997 film 'Gattaca' updated 'Brave New World,' bringing us to a future where genetic testing determined your job, your wealth, your status in life.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Life
  • World
  • Job

• I think everybody understands the fact that the right person will be cast for the role. So it's not theirs really to lose; they're just trying to find the right person.

  

  Hannah Simone
  • Trying
  • Find
  • Right Person

• I've been an atheist since I was nine years old. And my mom is really religious, so we have a strange relationship. But if my mother was right, what would be the reason that the gods could let anything bad happen in the world?

  

  Tarsem Singh
  • World
  • Bad
  • Mother

• The Wild West attracts cowboys. A sheriff is a good thing.

  

  Cameron Winklevoss
  • Good
  • WIld
  • Sheriff

• Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power is ever stealing from the many to the few.

  

  Wendell Phillips
  • Power
  • Liberty
  • Price

• While the miser is merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational miser.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Mad
  • Gone
  • While

• Our constitutional liberties shall not be sacrificed in our search for greater security, for that is what our enemies and all enemies of freedom and democracy hope to achieve.

  

  Tammy Baldwin
  • Hope
  • Freedom
  • Democracy

• I was doing a tour of the 'Batman' live stage production, and I challenged the cast to join me to run. One time, we were running in Switzerland just before Christmas, and it was heavy snow. Another time, we were running down the Seine in Paris on Christmas Day, and we all had Santa hats on.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Time
  • Live
  • Running

• It's an unfortunate reality of life that toxins are constantly building up in our bodies.

  

  Mallory Ortberg
  • Life
  • Up
  • Reality

• As an actor, I have casting issues. I'm a minority. I don't have trouble making a living, but as far as being on the food chain of the pecking order of actors, I'm not at the top of it. With the jobs that I do, there are always control issues with directors and producers.

  

  B. D. Wong
  • Food
  • Control
  • Living

• Without the hard little bits of marble which are called 'facts' or 'data' one cannot compose a mosaic; what matters, however, are not so much the individual bits, but the successive patterns into which you arrange them, then break them up and rearrange them.

  

  Arthur Koestler
  • Up

• There's too much - I don't know what the word is - scientology in the game.

  

  David Pleat
  • Game
  • Football
  • Games

• You must stand for something! It does not have to be grand, but it must be a positive that brings light to someone else's darkness.

  

  Anthony Carmona
  • Light
  • Positive

• When I date different guys, I just have to stay away - and not let myself fall. Because if I do, it's over.

  

  Janet Jackson
  • Different
  • Guy
  • Fall

• Look at who people are elevating and deifying in the public eye, and ask yourself what those people have done to receive such lauding and what it is they haven't. When you look at that you say, okay, are these people being revered for something of merit, or are they completely hallow? Or even worse, are they being revered for something that is actually destructive?

  

  David Paden Marchand AFI
  • People
  • Done
  • Eye

• People called me 'Iman the black model'. In my country, we're all black, so nobody called somebody else black. It was foreign to my ears.

  

  Iman
  • People
  • Country
  • Black