Alicia Machado Quotes

If you don't have talent or preparation for whatever you want to do, you will not be successful in anything.

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• Growing up, I was always in normal public school which is very important in my eyes.

  

  Tahj Mowry
  • Up
  • Important
  • School

• When I was about five or seven years old my mother was placed in a mental institution and so we were with our father who worked very hard, and we had to figure a lot of things out.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Old

• I wanted a bronzer so I could look like I just came from Ibiza everyday.

  

  Iman
  • Like
  • Look
  • Everyday

• The older you get, the more comfortable you become with yourself, and you accept what you have physically.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • You
  • Yourself
  • Accept

• I have nothing holding me back in my head at all.

  

  Samuel Larsen
  • Me
  • Nothing
  • Back

• I have a very feminine voice when I write, a very womanly point of view. My last name feels strong and powerful. To me, it's almost a bit masculine. I like the dichotomy of the two. Two sides perfectly represented within my name.

  

  Banks
  • Strong
  • Me
  • Powerful

• Harry Potter is awesome.

  

  Ed Sheeran
  • Awesome
  • Harry Potter
  • Harry

• The kids growing up in the apartheid era were so restricted and angry - if they spoke out against it, they were thrown in jail.

  

  Malik Bendjelloul
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Growing

• I love Damien Hirst. I respect his work a great deal, and I am happy that the polka dots I started using have become a symbol of love and peace around the world with everybody joining hands to use them in this way.

  

  Yayoi Kusama
  • World
  • Work
  • Happy

• What we're doing is fun - if you have any sense of humor at all!

  

  Calvin Klein
  • Fun
  • Humor
  • Sense Of Humor

• I don't cook very well at all. I'm the girl that can't make scrambled eggs.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Girl
  • Cook
  • Eggs

• Whether in chains or in laurels, liberty knows nothing but victories.

  

  Wendell Phillips
  • Freedom
  • Liberty
  • Nothing

• Everybody must have wished at some time that poetry were written by nice ordinary people instead of poets-and, in a better world, it may be; but in this world writers like Constance Carrier are the well oysters that don’t have the pearls.

  

  Randall Jarrell
  • People
  • Time
  • World

• For John Wilkes Booth, sweeping, grand gestures were a way of life. It was how he navigated his way through this world. The bigger and bolder, the better.

  

  Jesse Johnson
  • Life
  • World

• Wage theft, worker rights and workplace discrimination should not be swept under the rug. The United States cannot have a functional economy where all the gains go to the corporate class while all the pain goes to regular workers.

  

  James P. Hoffa
  • Pain
  • Workplace

• We didn't get television until quite late, the late fifties, but we had radio, and I can remember listening to the Korean War news on the radio with my family and sensing the anxiety of the adults although not understanding it myself, not understanding exactly what was going on.

  

  Jocelyn Bell Burnell
  • Family
  • Remember
  • War

• I borrowed my friend's car the other day in an attempt to persuade my husband that we needed a car and literally this is true, in the first day of borrowing the car, I got three tickets and I rear-ended it.

  

  Emily Mortimer
  • True
  • Friend
  • Car

• I used to be someone that needed nine hours of sleep; otherwise, I didn't think I was going to sound good when I sang, and I was very disciplined and anal about my preparation. When you become a parent, there just isn't that time, you know?

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Time
  • Good
  • Sleep

• There are still a lot of Mike Tyson fans out there, and a lot of disbelievers in the first fight, and they want to see us fight again. I am the emperor. If he wants to fight, I am here. If he does not, I understand.

  

  Lennox Lewis
  • Fight
  • Mike Tyson
  • Disbelievers

• I was the biggest liar for no reason, and then as I got older, I thought, 'Why am I lying to everybody?' I would hear other people lie and be like, 'You sound so stupid.' So then I would just change my lies. The only person I lie to is my little sister, when I steal her clothes.

  

  Kendall Jenner
  • People
  • Why
  • Stupid

• God is seeking those who hear His call to a life of worship. Those who heed are those who will walk in His presence. They will know Him intimately as He will manifest Himself to them.

  

  John Bevere
  • Worship
  • Walks
  • Manifest

• If you don't have talent or preparation for whatever you want to do, you will not be successful in anything.

  

  Alicia Machado
  • Preparation