Irina Shayk Quotes
I started modelling quite late, at 20. In this industry, girls start when they're barely even 14 or 15.
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I miss having my mom and close friends around. Thank God for Skype and Face-Time, which keep me connected... but interacting digitally can't come close to the feeling of being hugged by my mom or getting together for a meal with my friends on the same table.
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Could you imagine being from Siberia? Like, a small part of Russia, where it's like, 'When was the last time Russia was having a super big international pop star in the U.S.?' I don't know, but I can name a few from Sweden. I think that gives us a lot of confidence in being pop stars because we're like, 'Oh, we actually can. We know we can.'
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It's hard to find an emblem of cultural, national pride that burns as bright as Israel's success in classical music.
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As a novelist, I ask of myself only that I tell the truth and that I tell it beautifully.
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Ever since I took to the streets when I was 17 to protest at great personal risk against the communist dictatorship, I have been a passionate democrat.
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We need to bring sustainable energy to every corner of the globe with technologies like solar energy mini-grids, solar powered lights, and wind turbines.
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Let me just say as one who has been speaker of the House, I've had to have a very thick skin about every kind of thing that was thrown at me.
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This is not a zero-sum game. We know that if we provide access and education, particularly where there are gaps in the market, we will create more jobs, we will create more growth, and we will create more activity in the U.S. market, which will be good for our economy.
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I always turn to the sports pages first, which records people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's failures.
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All I wanted to do was be a working actor.
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The production value of YouTube videos is not there.
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How shall the soul of a man be larger than the life he has lived?
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This is just rap. I'm not trying to make people think I'm some sort of scientific wizard or inspirational poet.
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I would give no thought of what the world might say of me, if I could only transmit to posterity the reputation of an honest man.
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Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to any rules. They're not like aches or wounds, they're more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there's not enough material.
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There's something so soothing about the hum of Grand Central Station.
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I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too - what I should wear.
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As much as people say they love change, they love it when you change - not when you want them to change. Even when it comes to processes they don't like, they're afraid of change.
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My parents divorced when I was seven. Because divorce is messy, for good or ill, they sent me to boarding school.
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Start with the end in mind. If you want to be a millionaire, talk like one, act like one, work like one.
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In the north we could not hope to keep the worst and poorest servant for a single day in the wretched discomfort in which our negro servants are forced habitually to live.
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I started modelling quite late, at 20. In this industry, girls start when they're barely even 14 or 15.
