Iman Quotes
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At the end of the day, a 34B doesn't give you self-esteem.
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I arrive in New York on October 15, 1975. On my own, by the way.
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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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I believe the universe has great plans for us. When you are young, you don't learn that.
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I started the cosmetics in 1994 after I stopped modeling, out of my frustration as a woman of color not finding what I needed.
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I am so far more secure and more grounded and more know who I am than when I was in my 20s.
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When I was in high school,we were, like, 4,000 or 5,000 students, and 50 girls - and I didn't have a date for my prom. My father paid my cousin to take me.
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My looks have changed. I have laugh lines - not wrinkles.
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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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I don't do anything by myself. I have a whole crew to get me ready every day.
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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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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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We never do Valentine's dinner, because everybody, they look. On Valentine's, imagine me and David going to a restaurant! Like, everybody's going to say, 'Did they talk? Did they hold hands?' Twenty years. We've been married twenty years!
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At the end of the day, my legacy will not be modelling but my cosmetics line.
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We all have friends and loved ones who say 60's the new 30. No. Sixty's the new 60.
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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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Looking good is a commitment to yourself and to others. Wigs, killer heels, Pilates, even fillers - whatever works for you, honey.
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I was never a practicing Muslim. But I do consider myself a Muslim.
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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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I would go to cosmetics counters and buy two or three foundations and powders, and then go home and mix them before I came up with something suitable for my undertones.
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Life is too short not to have pasta, steak, and butter.
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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 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 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.