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I would hope that young girls could relate to me and see that the lives of people on the internet are not as perfect as they seem.
Global interdependence today means that economic disasters in developing countries could create a backlash on developed countries.
There is nothing like the thrill of walking through the jungle looking for a tiger and knowing they could be watching you already.
I was Versace's muse, I was Valentino's muse, I was Alaia's muse, Lancetti's muse, Calvin Klein's, Halston's. I could go on and on.
Imagine what a harmonious world it could be if every single person, both young and old shared a little of what he is good at doing.
I have no regrets. I don't believe in looking back. What I am proudest of? Working really hard... and achieving as much as I could.
Every great discovery I ever made, I gambled that the truth was there, and then I acted in faith until I could prove its existence.
No one ever said that I couldn't create my own projects, but no one actually told me that I could be an executive producer, either.
If we could get your subconscious mind to agree with your conscious mind about being happy, that's when your positive thoughts work.
When you hear people making hateful comments, stand up to them. Point out what a waste it is to hate, and you could open their eyes.
I say that in the most humble way: I always knew that I could perform with the best of 'em and I could deliver with the best of 'em.
If we all act together - business, governments, NGOs and citizens and, especially, the young - just imagine the good we could create.
I wanted to be a sportswriter because I loved sports and I could not hit the curve ball, the jump shot, or the opposing ball carrier.
My brother and I were both good at science, and we were both good at English literature. Either one of us could have gone either way.
As a child, I wanted to be a singer, but that was only because I thought I could sing. I'd sing along to Brandy and Usher and *NSYNC.
I think that's the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself.
If economists could manage to get themselves thought of as humble, competent people on a level with dentists, that would be splendid.
I took a risk and invested in SM Mall of Asia because I wanted to create something that could contribute to Philippine tourism growth.
I like science fiction, I like fantasy, I like time travel, so I had this idea: What if you had a phone that could call into the past?
I think you could get a good accountant, but I think I am the best accountant for me. Can't nobody count my money like I can count it.
That's the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over, lest you should think he never could recapture the first fine careless rapture!
When I was a kid, I used to think, 'Man, if I could ever afford all the ice cream I want to eat, that's as rich as I ever want to be.'
Soon as I could play one guitar chord and laid my ear upon that wood, I was gone. My soul was sold. Music was everything from then on.
Nothing could be more insulting to me than the concept of civil rights. It means perpetual second-class citizenship for me and my kind.
Sometimes all you need is just for somebody to believe in you in order to be able to accomplish maybe what you never thought you could.
You never let a serious crisis go to waste. And what I mean by that it's an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before.
Allowing myself to love God completely has obviously shed light on my self-love because he loves me more than I could ever love myself.
I wanted to be an independent woman, a woman who could pay for her bills, a woman who could run her own life - and I became that woman.
Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There's a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning.
Why a four-year-old child could understand this report. Run out and find me a four-year-old child. I can't make head nor tail out of it.
We all have a hungry heart, and one of the things we hunger for is happiness. So as much as I possibly could, I stayed where I was happy.
If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.
Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.
I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity.
As a black woman I always felt growing up I had to do above and beyond stuff to be noticed, to feel like I could hang with everybody else.
My mother taught me about the power of inspiration and courage, and she did it with a strength and a passion that I wish could be bottled.
A fan once asked if he could have a piece of my hair for voodoo. I said no, so he hugged me and plucked out a couple of hairs and ran off.
There were no international terrorists in Iraq until we went in. It was we who gave the perfect conditions in which Al Qaeda could thrive.
Still, as much as I wish Ballistic Kiss could be a better film, the recognition it gained from critics and at festivals speaks for itself.
I once tried standing up on my toes to see far out in the distance, but I found that I could see much farther by climbing to a high place.
Life's short. Anything could happen, and it usually does, so there is no point in sitting around thinking about all the ifs, ands and buts.
'Thank you' is the best prayer that anyone could say. I say that one a lot. Thank you expresses extreme gratitude, humility, understanding.
I love snow; I love building snowman. The only thing I don't like is the cold - so if we could have a hot Christmas, that would be amazing.
But what of black women?... I most sincerely doubt if any other race of women could have brought its fineness up through so devilish a fire.
It is the greatest shot of adrenaline to be doing what you have wanted to do so badly. You almost feel like you could fly without the plane.
Maybe I beef with people, but it was never random. Anybody you name, I could give you the reason why it happened or whatever led to the beef.
I knew my body could take the battle of everyday training and take the battle of falls and bending in ways that bodies really shouldn't bend.
I don't tell people, 'You're okay the way that you are.' That's not the right story. The right story is, 'You're way less than you could be.'
If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?
Art is the window to man's soul. Without it, he would never be able to see beyond his immediate world; nor could the world see the man within.