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

• I would like to be the first ambassador to the United States from the United States.

  

  Barbara Mikulski
  • Like
  • First
  • Ambassador

• 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

• My fashion statement depends on my mood. I am more of a tomboy when dressing up, and I have never worn pink in my entire life.

  

  Lalaine Vergara-Paras
  • Life
  • Fashion
  • Mood

• 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

• Torment in the dark was the danger that I feared, and it did not hold me back. But I would not have come, had I known the danger of light and joy. Now I have taken my worst wound in this parting, even if I were to go this night straight to the Dark Lord. Alas for Gimli son of Glóin!

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Night
  • Joy
  • Danger

• The clock, not the steam-engine, is the key-machine of the modern industrial age.

  

  Lewis Mumford
  • Age

• Talent is obviously very important, but it's also about how you approach the work and, you know, maybe this is a Canadian thing, but it's good to be nice.

  

  Jeremy Podeswa
  • Good
  • Work
  • Important

• Just like I described in health care, yeah, somebody comes in, they got new ideas, maybe ideas that are completely opposite of my ideas. Maybe some of it goes, maybe some of that progress goes back. Maybe they think of some things we didn't think of, and so in some other areas - we can learn something.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Thinking
  • Health
  • Ideas

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

  

  Liya Kebede