Iman Quotes
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I arrive in New York on October 15, 1975. On my own, by the way.
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I did not want to get involved with a rock star. No way. It is not a sane thing to do.
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I was never a practicing Muslim. But I do consider myself a Muslim.
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I'm always criticised by other Somalis and Muslims for what I'm doing as a model and married to a white man and all that.
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Bowie is just a persona. He's a singer, an entertainer. David Jones is a man I met.
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When I started modeling, they tried to pay black models less than they paid Caucasian models. I turned down those jobs because I knew what I was worth.
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I've always said if what I'm going to create doesn't look good on everybody, I'm not going to do it.
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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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My ritual is cooking. I find it therapeutic. It comes naturally to me. I can read a recipe and won't have to look at it again.
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I don't do anything by myself. I have a whole crew to get me ready every day.
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The difference between rearing a child in your 20s and one in your 50s is one of patience.
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The people who are the most successful in life are not stopped by fear.
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I believe the universe has great plans for us. When you are young, you don't learn that.
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I'm a very political person, and I think things through clearly, even when I was 18 years old.
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I beg you, don't use the verb, 'discover', I hate it. What does it mean, that I didn't exist before?
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I thought at 46 years old, I've been removed from the fashion industry for 10 years. I couldn't possibly write a model's book. That's for a 20-year-old. But I could say what I want to say without chastising the industry.
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We are very private, so we decided from early on that we will keep the press and editors and everybody out of our house.
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The women I gravitate to are the ones who defy convention and reinvent themselves - hence, they reinvent the world around them.
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Eliminating the things you love is not wellness. Wellness feeds your soul and makes you feel good.
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Life is too short not to have pasta, steak, and butter.
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I was born in Somalia, which is in East Africa. My parents started with nothing: poor, poor, poor. They eloped, which was unheard of in my country, when my father was 17 and my mother was 14.
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I was not considered beautiful at all. Really. And this is what all models say. But I'm still not considered that beautiful in my country. I don't know the beauty ideal where I come from – but it's not me.
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I speak five languages besides mine. I went to school in Egypt because girls weren't allowed to go to school in Saudi Arabia. It's very restricting, especially for girls; we're not allowed to go anywhere.
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It's really not a good idea to forecast or double guess the fates; you will always be fooled.