Natalia Vodianova Quotes
My appearance gave me access to a particular kind of world and I'm really grateful for it.
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All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.
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Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of course standard practice across the ancient world.
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Social revolutions are never simple.
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I think what television and video games do is reminiscent of drug addiction. There's a measure of reinforcement and a behavioural loop.
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You haven't partied until you've partied at dawn in complete silence with Buddhist monks.
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Life is a canvas of many strokes where shades from different palettes meet into a picture so concrete that some forget it is their own, so become framed themselves.
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I work with the Carl Lewis Foundation focusing on youth from high school down.
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I feel that the world is increasingly about the bottom line, and not so much about human respect or human dignity. In that regard, people who care about other people will not be in a position to make choices and do things that other people who they're competing against will get to do.
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Usually, it's the guys who want to get better so they can get more playing time who are always in the gym.
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My father is an amazing person.
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Caring about others, running the risk of feeling, and leaving an impact on people, brings happiness.
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I grew up in New York, and for the first ten years of my life, we lived across from the Metropolitan Museum. When I was an adult, I moved back to that neighborhood and lived there again.
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I think nowadays, women are breaking the borders or the boundaries and also trying to give a new interpretation in terms of impact you can have to the society.
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I wasn't interested in exploiting myself.
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Readers of fiction read, I think, for a deeper embrace of the world, of reality. And that's brave. I never get over being thankful for that - for the courage of my readers.
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What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea.
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The shelf life of the average trade book is somewhere between milk and yogurt.
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My work on human capital began with an effort to calculate both private and social rates of return to men, women, blacks, and other groups from investments in different levels of education.
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Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.
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The internet is a total inversion of television. It's the opposite.
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Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable.
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My father, at the death of his father, was but six years of age, and he grew up literally without education. He removed from Kentucky to what is now Spencer County, Indiana, in my eighth year. We reached our new home about the time the State came into the Union. It was a wild region, with many bears and other wild animals still in the woods. There I grew up.
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If you could build a house on a trampoline, that would suit me fine.
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My appearance gave me access to a particular kind of world and I'm really grateful for it.
