Ashley Graham Quotes
Back in Nebraska, I was known as the fat model - the girl who was pretty for a big girl. My body, like my confidence, has been picked apart, manipulated, and controlled by others who didn't necessarily understand it.
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I've leased the apartment; my partner is going to come out here. But we're keeping our house in Chicago because real estate is a really good investment and also because it is just crammed with full of stuff!
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I like to think I'm quite brave. I stand up for myself.
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Never have we stolen the intelligences of other peoples. On the contrary, in Cuba we have trained tens of thousands of doctors and other top-level professionals, for free, in order to send them back to their own countries.
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I like science fiction, I like fantasy, I like time travel, so I had this idea: What if you had a phone that could call into the past?
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Some people are used to having things done for them by her parents, I am not. I can do it myself.
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I used to be obsessed with race. I'm more obsessed with class now.
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Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use.
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When I was a very young lawyer, I had a senior partner who advised me never to get mad, except on purpose.
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I believe that life is a journey towards God, and that no one has the right to insist that you go a certain road.
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I knew David Lynch going to television was going to be something. It was either going to not work, nobody was going to get it and it would disappear, or it was going to be something special and really stand out.
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Separation is very important to me. I don't strive to be a celebrity. My music has nothing to do with me at the end of the day. Once it's made and it's purchased, it belongs to whoever.
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I think that being a producer is business and being an actor is art.
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I may even show up behind the camera. I love to put things together; I love to give direction. I have a great eye for pace.
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Find something that you love to do, and find a place that you really like to do it in. I found something I loved to do. I'm a mechanical engineer by training, and I loved it. I still do. My son is a nuclear engineer at MIT, a junior, and I get the same vibe from him. Your work has to be compelling. You spend a lot of time doing it.
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Social Security, all public and no option, rescued older Americans from living their final years in poverty.
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I get a lot of people saying to me, 'Oh, you're the actor who plays the nutters,' and I'm not. I'm the guy who plays human beings. I understand why the characters are doing what they're doing. When you play a villain, you don't play a villain: you play a human being doing what he thinks he needs to do to get what he wants.
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As it is, relationships are difficult, aren't they?
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I was trying to be Mary Tyler Moore. I loved her in 'The Dick Van Dyke Show.'
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The worst of having so much tact was that you never quite knew whether other people were acting naturally or being tactful too. [The human element]
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Twitter has been my life's work in many senses. It started with a fascination with cities and how they work, and what's going on in them right now.
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For me from a pretty young age up until about 21 years old hallucinogenics had a huge place in my life.
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As it stands at the moment, if there's a motion of non-confidence on the table in the House, we will not be supporting or indicating confidence in the government.
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Back in Nebraska, I was known as the fat model - the girl who was pretty for a big girl. My body, like my confidence, has been picked apart, manipulated, and controlled by others who didn't necessarily understand it.
