Alek Wek Quotes

When I was growing up, my mother taught me and my sisters to celebrate each other - there was no room in our household for negativity. She taught us to embrace each other, and this was empowering for us. She also taught us the value of celebrating our differences.

Alek Wek

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MotherValueMeGrowing UpCelebrate

Anybody who has been seriously engaged in scientific work of any kind realizes that over the entrance to the gates of the temple of science are written the words: 'Ye must have faith.'

Max Planck

WorkFaithScienceWordsSeriously

I don't read many business books. I read good fiction. Business is about people, so my favorite business books are anything by Dickens.

Tom Peters

GoodBusinessPeopleAnythingBooks

I don't like lifts and will walk up 20 flights of stairs if I have to. Crowded rooms make me uncomfortable, too, although I can sing to a stadium full of thousands of people no bother.

Robin Gibb

WalkPeopleMeUncomfortableStairs

The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.

Lucille Ball

LiveAgeLieYoungSecretEat

Every album, I make big records. I'm going to always make an anthem. That's what I do.

DJ Khaled

AlwaysBigGoingMakeRecordsAlbum

I'm not in the movie business anymore, and hardly any 70 year olds are. I always ask the producers: 'Are there no 70-year old vampires?' Apparently there are not - or even zombies for that matter. I guess they all get eaten.

Brian Dennehy

BusinessYearMatterAskOldAlways

We are running a very strong and ongoing marketing campaign to get families to send their children to school, particularly girls.

Augustin Matata Ponyo

ChildrenSchoolStrongMarketingGet

One of the things I wanted to do with 'The Turn' was write a production of songs that could be stripped down to one or two instruments if you chose to do it.

Alison Moyet

YouDownWriteTwoTurnProduction

True friends challenge us and help us to be faithful on our journey.

Pope Benedict XVI

JourneyChallengeFriendsHelpTrue

I'd love to do a rom-com. I'd love to be a lover. I'm sure I could be a great lover. I never get to kiss the girl, that's for sure. I just bite them.

Sebastian Roche

LoveGirlGreatKissNeverSure

It's very rare that you can be in a career for as long as I have and still feel like you're constantly learning and coming at it from an almost childlike perspective.

Timothy Olyphant

LearningPerspectiveFeelYouCareer

My parents decided - because they were not going to teach us anything Jewish at home - to send both me and my sister to a Jewish primary school. So I went to Kerem Primary School in Hampstead Garden Suburb. But, for me, that school really didn't work that well.

Noreena Hertz

WorkHomeSchoolParentsMeSister

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