Barbie Ferreira Quotes

I never saw anyone my size in magazines when I was younger.

Barbie Ferreira

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• When I was a model, everybody was scrutinising me and I felt I had to go to the gym because my figure had to be fantastic. Now that I'm a singer, I've got a different kind of body – it's more athletic.

  

  Samantha Fox
  • Model
  • Singer
  • Fantastic

• My mom has always been my champion. She was very smart and grounded. She said, 'Save your money. Pay your taxes. Don't put everything in one basket,' but she let me explore and be creative.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Money
  • She
  • Mom

• Those few people who do respond to the dire conditions of the future - journalists, environmentalists, behavioral scientists - tend not to be powerful.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • People
  • Future
  • Powerful

• It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Me
  • Feel
  • Mystery

• In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Men
  • May
  • Truth

• For my wrap present, Colin Farrell gave me a first edition book. I got so involved with this character and I was so sad when the movie was over that when I got home and I tried to read the book I got really emotional and I started crying.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Home
  • Character
  • Book

• I know my football. And I adore football players. The crashing noise of a tackle, the huddle grunting, and the roar of the crowd are music to my ears.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Music
  • Know
  • Football

• My first novel - the novel I wrote before 'Midnight's Children' - feels, to me, now, very - I mean, I get embarrassed when I see people reading it. You know, there are some people who, bizarrely, like it. Which I'm, you know, I'm happy for.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • People
  • Children
  • Happy

• Is it security you want? There is no security at the top of the world.

  

  Garet Garrett
  • World
  • Want
  • Security

• It's been federal law for over two centuries that the child of an American born abroad is a citizen - a natural born citizen.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • American
  • Law
  • Child

• I have said repeatedly that the way to sustainable growth is to bring down inflation to much more reasonable levels.

  

  Raghuram Rajan
  • Way
  • Growth
  • Down

• I don't preach or try to impress my views upon people.

  

  Raine Maida
  • People
  • Try
  • Impress

• The course of decision in this Court has thus far jealously enforced the principle of a free society secured by the prohibition of unreasonable searches and seizures. Its safeguards are not to be worn away by a process of devitalizing interpretation.

  

  Felix Frankfurter
  • Society
  • Free
  • Decision

• Gertrude knew better than this, of course, but we all know better than we know better, or act as if we did.

  

  Randall Jarrell

• When we train men for war, we lose some part of every man we train - even if we win the war. When we train men to be better nurturers, even men who fail the course will have won. And so will every child they ever meet. Training men to love is a nation’s best investment.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • War
  • Training

• We Jews have been too adaptable. We have been too eager to sacrifice our idiosyncrasies for the sake of social conformity. … Even in modern civilization, the Jew is most happy if he remains a Jew.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Sacrifice
  • Civilization
  • Jews

• Literary fiction, as a strict genre, is all but dead. Meanwhile, most genres flourish.

  

  Dean Koontz

• At the end of the day, I want to be known for my ability to create life from words.

  

  Chelsea Hobbs
  • Life
  • Words

• There is nothing that we can see on earth which does not either show the wretchedness of man or the mercy of God. One either sees the powerlessness of man without God, or the strength of man with God.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • God
  • Man
  • Earth

• In our whole life melody the music is broken off here and there by rests, and we foolishly think we have come to the end of time. God sends a time of forced leisure, a time of sickness and disappointed plans, and makes a sudden pause in the hymns of our lives, and we lament that our voice must be silent and our part missing in the music which ever goes up to the ear of our Creator. Not without design does God write the music of our lives. Be it ours to learn the time and not be dismayed at the rests. If we look up, God will beat the time for us.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Music
  • God
  • Thinking

• I'm not single, I'm busy. That's my line.

  

  Renee Zellweger
  • Lines
  • Busy

• Whether as victim, demon, or hero, the industrial worker of the past century filled the public imagination in books, movies, news stories, and even popular songs, putting a grimy human face on capitalism while dramatizing the social changes and conflicts it brought.

  

  George Packer
  • Past
  • Imagination
  • Popular

• Rarely affirm, seldom deny, always distinguish.

  

  Thomas Aquinas
  • Deny
  • Distinguish
  • Affirm

• I never saw anyone my size in magazines when I was younger.

  

  Barbie Ferreira