Christy Turlington Quotes

When I was seven months pregnant with my son, my mother and I took a trip to El Salvador, where she's from. Frequent visits with her to see my extended family have taught me how different life can be if you are born into poverty.

Christy Turlington

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: model
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: January 2, 1969

Topics

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'Give me your poor.' It didn't say, 'Give me your poor who can afford a $680 citizenship.' If I had my way, it would be free. If I had my way, the state would subsidize every eligible application, period.

Andrew Cuomo

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The oldest book I have is a treatise on architecture from the 17th century.

Michael Graves

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Winning fires me up.

Robbie Lawler

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We know about man's impact on the ocean in terms of fishing and overfishing, but we don't really know much about what's happening underneath the water. And in fact, shipping has a role to play here, because shipping noise has contributed to damaging the acoustic habitats of ocean creatures.

Rose George

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I worked as an artist, played in a band, met Andy Warhol, Christo, Lou Reed, and David Byrne. I had fun.

Mary Lou Jepsen

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Podcast listening carries with it a faint aura of cultural snobbery, a notion that to cue up an episode is to do something highbrow and personally enriching, whether it's a history lecture broadcast from a university or an amateur talk show recorded in someone's garage.

Michelle Dean

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I don't mind Ed Sheeran, but I wouldn't want to be compared to a guy that builds his song around a guitar, since we do not have a guitar in our band.

Lukas Forchhammer

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You need not search for the compassionate mind from outside. To know yourself, to know your nature, your mind will automatically be the compassionate one.

Lobsang Tenzin

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There is not a great Spanish tradition of ghost stories. But in the period of Franco, you'd find these ghost stories: sort of hidden political movies that were supposed to be about ghosts but were about something else.

Juan Antonio Bayona

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I need my president to be prepared to handle all the critical issues our country faces.

Jason Winston George

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In this new world where art is willfully misinterpreted to score points and to distract, simply doing the work of an artist has become a political act.

Corey Stoll

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I would have been an Egyptologist if I had had the schooling.

Rick Springfield

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