Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" I was a very nerdy child. I never fit in, so I became laboriously studious. "

Related Quotes:

" If I feel frustrated in a situation, I take a deep breath and walk away. "

" My father... gave me a positive connection with men because he is a gentleman. "

" We all have friends and loved ones who say 60's the new 30. No. Sixty's the new 60. "

" I don't love eating meat. I really only like chicken and fish. "

" We all want what every girl wants: to look fabulous while we're out there ruling the world. "

" I am so far more secure and more grounded and more know who I am than when I was in my 20s. "

" Nobody has ever said to me that I was pretty, 'til I met Peter Beard. "

" People get numbed when they see picture after picture, year in and year out, of people starving. "

" We never do Valentine's dinner, because everybody, they look. On Valentine's, imagine me and David going to a restaurant! Like, everybody's going to say, 'Did they talk? Did they hold hands?' Twenty years. We've been married twenty years! "

" I would go to cosmetics counters and buy two or three foundations and powders, and then go home and mix them before I came up with something suitable for my undertones. "

" I can enjoy what I'm engaged in and be fully present rather than planning my answers to questions while someone else is speaking or thinking about my next appointment while my current engagement is still in in progress. "

" My mother was an activist; so was my father. They came from a generation of young Somalis who were actively involved in getting independence for Somalia in 1960. "

" Bowie is just a persona. He's a singer, an entertainer. David Jones is a man I met. "

" I've always said if what I'm going to create doesn't look good on everybody, I'm not going to do it. "

" I thought at 46 years old, I've been removed from the fashion industry for 10 years. I couldn't possibly write a model's book. That's for a 20-year-old. But I could say what I want to say without chastising the industry. "

" The truth was I felt ugly growing up. I only really started feeling comfortable in myself when I was 40. "

" I don't do anything by myself. I have a whole crew to get me ready every day. "

" At the end of the day, a 34B doesn't give you self-esteem. "

" The difference between rearing a child in your 20s and one in your 50s is one of patience. "

" I would rather Google other people than Google myself. "

" People called me 'Iman the black model'. In my country, we're all black, so nobody called somebody else black. It was foreign to my ears. "

" I have been a muse to Mr. Saint-Laurent, Valentino, Calvin Klein, Donna Karan, Versace. "

" We are very private, so we decided from early on that we will keep the press and editors and everybody out of our house. "

" I have a certain manner of speech that is unique to me. I tried once to have my staff tweet for me, and it was a disaster! People knew right away that it wasn't me. "

" That is something that my mother instilled in me at a very young age - to know my self-worth. And I have had times again and again in the fashion industry where all of that was tested and I rose to the occasion because I was told that I am worthy and I should be able to walk away from something that is not worthy of me. "

" You want a career? Do that first. You don't want to have kids? Then don't. You don't want to get married? Then don't. But once you do something, you've got to know that there is compromise. "

" I suffer from low self-esteem. I had horrible self-esteem growing up. You really have to save yourself because the critic within you will eat you up. It's not the outside world - it's your interior life, that critic within you, that you have to silence. "

" It's really not a good idea to forecast or double guess the fates; you will always be fooled. "

" I'll be truly happy when we're not counting the number of ethnically diverse models on a fashion runway or campaign, when having a representation of the entire human race is the norm and not an exception. "

" Italian was my first foreign language. I speak it better than English. "