Ashley Graham Quotes
I believe that we're all here for a purpose and that one of my biggest ones is to help people understand that they're beautiful.
Quotes to Explore
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In the eyes of many people, giving doesn't count unless it's completely selfless. In reality, though, giving isn't sustainable when it's completely selfless.
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When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right.
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Will Smith said if I ever need some help, he was there for me.
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I was 25 years old when I arrived in D.C. It was just myself and two people who worked and helped me in the kitchen. I was only cooking for three people most of the time.
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I think Delhiites know how to party, but Kolkata has people who know how to celebrate. I think that's the main difference.
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It is commercial pop that the majority of people understand. A working man's daughter would not understand blues.
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Black people must address itself to the causes of poverty. That's oppression in this country.
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And I think maybe all women, if they just had a chance, would be romantic and believe in love and not sex. And men believe in sex and not love.
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I'm an actor that likes to go to work. I like going to work every day. I'm a worker by nature. I'm not someone who does one film a year and feels satisfied by that.
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At least international media can see how I am trying to change the typical orthodox mindset of people who don't want to come out of their shells of false beliefs and old practices.
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I think there's a perception out there that people know me based on these glamorous photos they see of me in magazines, but I have about two hours of hair and makeup and then people to dress me, to make me look even better, in those pictures.
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It's not the people in the South who create racial problems - it's the people who are governing.
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That's the way I do things when I want to celebrate, I always plant a tree. And so I got an indigenous tree, called Nandi flame, it has this beautiful red flowers. When it is in flower it is like it is in flame.
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The fact that the internet is so active; people can now speak to me indirectly.
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I think, ultimately, open always wins out. It wins out because you cannot lock data in; you can't lock people in. They will find a way out.
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Being a mom makes you far more compassionate. You have more empathy for people, more love. I was always taught to say thank you, and I'm very grateful. And my kids have that quality, too.
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I do not believe in the eternity of the spirit. That contradicts my ideology.
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There is almost nothing more painful for a leader than seeing good people leave a growing organization, whether it's a priest watching a Sunday school teacher walk out the door or a CEO saying goodbye to a co-founder.
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Honest people remember stories in the order of emotional prominence, but liars will recount a story in chronological order. Memory rarely works that way.
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It is funny what a year can do.
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A business man once stated that there is nothing so practical as a good theory.
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In 1962, when I was 19, I visited India. With introductions from people involved in the U.S. civil rights movement, I was able to visit with several of the leading Gandhians there. The hundred-to-one difference in average per capita income between America and India at the time was a stark reality for the people who became my friends there.
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I think I am like anyone else. I respect other people and, of course, I expect that it works the other way around.
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I believe that we're all here for a purpose and that one of my biggest ones is to help people understand that they're beautiful.
