Liya Kebede Quotes

One thing modeling taught me is that the spotlight can change everything.

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• It is the job of our military to protect America and to hunt down and kill those who would threaten to murder Americans.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Job
  • America
  • Military

• When I first came out, country wouldn't touch me because I was way too rock, and rock wouldn't touch me because I was definitely country.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Country
  • Me
  • Rock

• Olympics for me is love, peace, united.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Love
  • Me
  • Peace

• If we want to make a statement about a man's nature on the basis of his physiognomy, we must take everything into account; it is in his distress that a man is tested, for then his nature is revealed.

  

  Paracelsus
  • Nature
  • Want
  • Man

• Fixity is always momentary. But how can it always be so? If it were, it would not be momentary - or would not be fixity.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Always
  • Would
  • Were

• At one time if you were a black writer you had to be one of the best writers in the world to be published. You had to be great. Now you can be good. Mediocre. And that's good.

  

  Walter Mosley
  • Time
  • World
  • Good

• I had a very famous trainer tell me once, 'You can usually train a wild animal but never tame a wild animal, ever.' They are always going to be wild, no matter what anybody says.

  

  Jack Hanna
  • Animal
  • Famous
  • Train

• A lot of technologies in the world were unusual in the beginning, and became standard. That's the beauty of bottom-up entrepreneurship and innovations.

  

  Iqbal Quadir
  • Up
  • World
  • Beginning

• I liked Dallas better because it was more deceptive, you could do more with it.

  

  Larry Hagman
  • You
  • Better
  • More

• In London I feel free; nobody bothers anyone and everyone is free to express themselves.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
  • Free
  • Feel
  • London

• A style is not a matter of camera angles or fancy footwork, it's an expression, an accurate expression of your particular opinion.

  

  Karel Reisz
  • Style
  • Opinion
  • Camera

• I wrote a great deal about the Civil Rights Movement when I was writing for 'The Nation' in the '60s, and also for Esquire magazine. Reading the biography of Coffin, it just reminded me that in those days, when you saw the term 'Christian,' it usually meant people for civil rights and for justice.

  

  Dan Wakefield
  • People
  • Great
  • Writing

• Most safely shall you tread the middle path.

  

  Ovid
  • You
  • Path
  • Most

• There have been few things in my life which have had a more genial effect on my mind than the possession of a piece of land.

  

  Harriet Martineau
  • Life
  • Mind
  • My Life

• I will be working with David Lynch when I'm 80.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Working
  • Will
  • David

• Quincy Jones' autobiography 'Q' is very good. Because he's a master at music, he's one of our greatest composers, and its good for him to have a book and tell the good ole days when he was with Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Sarah Vaughan and Ray Charles.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Good
  • Music
  • Book

• I would never be fearful of any character.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Character
  • Never
  • Would

• Books are something social - a writer speaking to a reader - so I think making the reading of a book the center of a social event, the meeting of a book club, is a brilliant idea.

  

  Yann Martel
  • Book
  • Reading
  • Meeting

• To understand political power right, and derive it from its original, we must consider, what state all men are naturally in, and that is, a state of perfect freedom to order their actions, and dispose of their possessions and persons, as they think fit, within the bounds of the law of nature, without asking leave, or depending upon the will of any other man.

  

  John Locke Nazareth
  • Freedom
  • Actions
  • Consider

• As I look around, I get this sinking feeling that we're off track, that there's something sick in the soul of our country. I examine the fruit that's hanging on the tree of America, and I can see that it's rotting. And that concerns me deeply.

  

  Kirk Cameron
  • Country
  • America
  • Soul

• I'm really kind of boring - I'd rather go to bed early and get up early because I really value my time off, my time away from work.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Up
  • Time
  • Work

• We want all the Palestinians back in their homeland, and then there can be a fair referendum for people to choose the form of state they want. Whoever gets the majority can rule.

  

  Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
  • People

• Men should keep their eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.

  

  Madeleine de Scudery
  • Men
  • Eyes
  • Marriage

• One thing modeling taught me is that the spotlight can change everything.

  

  Liya Kebede