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

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" I had never seen 'Vogue.' I didn't read fashion magazines, I read 'Time' and 'Newsweek.' "

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" I'm always criticised by other Somalis and Muslims for what I'm doing as a model and married to a white man and all that. "

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

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

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

" I didn't start exercising until the end of my modeling career. When you're young, you eat and drink what you want and stay up all night and still look good. "

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

" Modeling gave me so many experiences, like traveling and being exposed to global cultures, but the most valuable lesson has been working with designers who truly are visionaries in their field. "

" I like to get up around 5:30 or six - that's my favorite time of day. My family is still asleep, and the office is still closed, so I can start my day slowly. "

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" There is no age better than another. The commitment to give of yourself and the knowledge that the time is right are what's important. "

" 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! "

" My ritual is cooking. I find it therapeutic. It comes naturally to me. I can read a recipe and won't have to look at it again. "

" 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. "

" I was not considered beautiful at all. Really. And this is what all models say. But I'm still not considered that beautiful in my country. I don't know the beauty ideal where I come from - but it's not me. "

" At the end of the day, my legacy will not be modelling but my cosmetics line. "

" Mrs. Obama is not a great beauty. But she is so interesting-looking - so bright. That will always take you farther. "

" After the bones mended, my left eye was smaller than my right, and my eyebrow never grew back. But you know what? Big deal. I think I became beautiful after the accident. I became kinder, more aware. I gained respect for other people. "

" The people who are the most successful in life are not stopped by fear. "

" On a Friday night in 1983, I was in a taxi in New York riding home from dinner with friends. A drunk driver ran a red light and hit the cab, and I was thrown toward the glass partition. I tried to duck, but my face hit the glass, and the impact fractured my cheekbone, my eye socket, my collarbone and several ribs. "

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

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

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