Claudia Schiffer Quotes
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There are two books that I often travel with; one is 'The Theory on Moral Sentiments' by Adam Smith. The other is 'The Meditations.' It's not that I agree with either views expressed in the books, but I believe ideas and thoughts of older generations can offer food for thought for the current generation.
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I have some sarcastic sides of me.
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Comparing science and religion isn't like comparing apples and oranges - it's more like apples and sewing machines.
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The words of the world want to make sentences.
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I come from Holland, and there's a lot of nudity in film there.
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Love can't conquer anything. Love can't make a scholar into a warrior. Loving her can't make her love me.
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Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.
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We have abolished space here on the little Earth; we can never abolish the space that yawns between the stars. Once again, as in the days when Homer sang, we are face-to-face with immensity and must accept its grandeur and terror, its inspiring possibilities and its dreadful restraints.
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When I get my hands on painting materials I don't give a damn about other people's painting... every generation must start again afresh.
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I knew my priority was acting, and school came second. If I had an audition and meetings, I did the school work later.
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I was never really interested in fashion before I started to work with Dior. I didn't see fashion as an art form.
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When you write an article about anything, trolls use the comments to attack. They feel frustrated - but haters are losers. It's not good to feed this aspect. It's more intelligent to be constructive.
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In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day's work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years.
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It's much easier for non-Indian companies to raise capital because they have profitable markets elsewhere. You might call it capital dumping, predatory pricing, or anti-WTO, but it's a very unfair playing field for Indian startups.
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We lived in one of those half-basement apartments, and on our first night of being in America, someone reached through the grate that protects the window and stole our laundry detergent - which wasn't a big deal, but it felt symbolic when I heard about it later as an adult.
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Some people cheer me on. Some people want me to do more Korean movies or TV series.
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I strongly suggest that we play down basics like who influenced whom, and instead study the way the influence is transformed, in other words: how the artist made it his own.
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I write short stories. They may appear big in size, but when you consider it, they're four or five novels in one. … In return for picking up one of my books, I'm trying to give them value for their money. … the goal of writing any book is to create the illusion that what you are reading is reality and you're part of it.
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If men could get pregnant, abortion clinics would be like Starbucks - two on every block and four in every airport. And the morning-after pill would come in different flavors like sea salt and cool ranch.
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In Illinois a pregnant woman who takes an illegal drug can be prosecuted for 'delivering a controlled substance to a minor.' This is an explicit recognition that the unborn is a person with rights of her own. But that same woman who is prosecuted and jailed for endangering her child is perfectly free to abort her child. In America today, it is illegal to harm your preborn child, but it is perfectly legal to kill him.
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Forgiving the past means remembering the love there, and releasing all the rest as the illusion that it really was.
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The real secret of magic is that the world is made of words, and that if you know the words that the world is made of you can make of it whatever you wish.
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I love being pregnant. You can do whatever you want.
