Andrej Pejic Quotes

In this society, if a man is called a woman, that's the biggest insult he could get. Is that because women are considered something less?

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• I make mistakes on a very grand scale.

  

  Gail Carson Levine
  • Mistakes
  • Very
  • Scale

• The worst thing for an effective war on terror is the suspicion of states about the objectives.

  

  Hamid Karzai
  • War
  • Worst
  • Objectives

• English is really free for me; there's no limits to the music and the imagination. And French, it's just I live in Paris, and it's really a poetic language where you can really play with words.

  

  Yael Naim
  • Music
  • Live
  • Free

• The difference in the quality of medical care received by people with mental illness is one of the reasons why they live shorter lives than people without mental illness. Even in the best-resourced countries in the world, this life expectancy gap is as much as 20 years. In the developing countries of the world, this gap is even larger.

  

  Vikram Patel
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• The kind of classic pose of a female model is to look kind of sexy and a bit annoyed.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Kind
  • Model
  • Look

• Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Men
  • Truth
  • Truth Is

• People think I'm just an old Luddite, but that's untrue. I buy every new gizmo as it comes out, play with it until I understand how it works, and then give it away.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • People
  • Think
  • Understand

• It would be a foolish high representative who worked that way.

  

  Paddy Ashdown
  • High
  • Way
  • Foolish

• In tight quarters, it's important to choose small-scale items.

  

  Candice Olson
  • Important
  • Small
  • Choose

• I've had my share of doing things that I really wish I hadn't done.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Done
  • Wish
  • Doing

• Memory is a net: one finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook, but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Water
  • Memory
  • Fish

• I find it hard to act other than the way I feel.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Feel
  • Find
  • Act

• It is up to God to reveal a religion, but up to us to understand and realise it.

  

  Abdolkarim Soroush
  • Up
  • God
  • Religion

• Quickly, after I landed in England, I found out ways to get scholarships. England turned out to be a very encouraging place for me.

  

  Zhang Xin
  • Place
  • England
  • Encouraging

• When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • Home
  • Play
  • Baby

• Well, you know, Thomas Jefferson, who was the author of the Declaration of Independence said he wouldn't have any atheists in his cabinet because atheists wouldn't swear an oath to God. That was Jefferson and we have never had any Muslims in the cabinet.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • God
  • Know
  • Author

• 'Transformers' was important and defining for me because it taught me about what kinds of movies I want to make and the kind of actor I want to be, and I have a long way to go before I become that actor.

  

  Rachael Taylor
  • Important
  • Way
  • Actor

• Good God, if our civilization were to sober up for a couple of days it'd die of remorse on the third.

  

  Malcolm Lowry
  • Up
  • Good
  • God

• A lot of people think teenagers haven't gone through anything in their lives - they're not even 20 years old yet. But a twenty-something can go through the same type of experience or heartbreak that a 50-year-old can go through, so why does age matter?

  

  Khalid
  • People
  • Why
  • Experience

• I wish I could be the black woman Soderbergh, and put the camera on my shoulder and shoot beautifully while I directed.

  

  Ava DuVernay
  • Black
  • Wish

• No, I didn't work it out upside down, I never turned it around.

  

  H. R. Giger
  • Work
  • Down
  • Upside Down

• Tomorrow could not get better if one failed to survive today.

  

  Celia S. Friedman
  • Today
  • Tomorrow
  • Get Better

• The dreams of childhood - it's airy fables, its graceful, beautiful, humane, impossible adornments of the world beyond; so good to be believed in once, so good to be remembered when outgrown.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Believed
  • Remembered
  • Dreams Of Childhood

• In this society, if a man is called a woman, that's the biggest insult he could get. Is that because women are considered something less?

  

  Andrej Pejic
  • Women
  • Society