Alek Wek Quotes

Leaving southern Sudan as a child was terrifying. It was 1985, and my family and I were trying to escape to Khartoum, the capital in the North, to safety.

Alek Wek

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FamilyChildSafetyTryingEscape

Listen to your mom and dad! They are almost always right, especially about boys.

Melissa Ordway

MomListenRightAlwaysAlmostYour

Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

Robert Half

TimeHiringWellSpent

As an actress, you know there are limitations on what you can do creatively.

Michelle Yeoh

YouKnowLimitationsActress

As a parent, you go through a whole lot of really tough things, and you kind of want other parents to experience those tough things as payback - especially when it's your brother.

Luke Hemsworth

ExperienceBrotherParentsToughYou

Literature is a state of culture, poetry is a state of grace, before and after culture.

Juan Ramon Jimenez

CulturePoetryGraceLiterature

I'm Jewish. Went to a Jewish school.

Jonathan Glazer

SchoolJewish

I was a huge theater geek growing up, and that was not the easiest thing in the world, especially growing up in Chicago, where sports are really the norm. I was always off to the theater at night, from 7 years old on. Friends there in the Midwest who could talk to you about the idiosyncrasies of 'Pippin' were few and far between.

Johnny Galecki

SportsGrowing UpWorldNightYou

When guys leave - whether they decide to leave or they're forced out - there's usually this period of time we see them around the world, and they can ride that WWE wave and use it, and then it goes away. It loses its luster after a few months.

Cody Rhodes

TimeRideWorldWaveSeeLeave

With love, you should go ahead and take the risk of getting hurt because love is an amazing feeling.

Britney Spears

LoveLove IsAmazingHurtYouGo

Israel has many hopes, and faces extreme dangers. The most prominent danger is Iran, which is making every effort to acquire nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles, and establishing an enormous terror network together with Syria in Lebanon.

Ariel Sharon

TogetherEffortNuclear WeaponsFaces

I am re-reading Henry James as a change from history. I began with Daisy Miller, and I've just finished Washington Square. What a brilliant, painful book.

Antonia Fraser

ChangeHistoryI AmBookWashington

Colonel, I do not care to die, but I pray to God I may never leave this field.

Winfield Scott Hancock

GodCareDieNeverLeaveMay

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