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" Life is too short not to have pasta, steak, and butter. "

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

" 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. "

" I was never a practicing Muslim. But I do consider myself a Muslim. "

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

" I wasn't a major in political science for nothing, so I understood the politics of beauty and the politics of race when it comes to the fashion industry. "

" I believe in glamour. I am in favor of a little vanity. I don't rely on just my genes. "

" I started the cosmetics in 1994 after I stopped modeling, out of my frustration as a woman of color not finding what I needed. "

" I wanted a bronzer so I could look like I just came from Ibiza everyday. "

" When I was in high school,we were, like, 4,000 or 5,000 students, and 50 girls - and I didn't have a date for my prom. My father paid my cousin to take me. "

" I vowed to myself when I got married that I would cook every night. I find it very therapeutic. "

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

" 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. "

" 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 was under 18, and to leave Kenya to come to the United States, to get a passport, you had to be 18. So I lied and said I was 19 to get the passport, because otherwise, I had to have permission from my parents, and my parents would never have let me come. "

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

" One afternoon, on my way to the campus - I was majoring in political science at Nairobi University - a photographer by the name of Peter Beard stopped me in the street and asked me if I'd ever been photographed. "

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

" I don't look like a white woman. I look Somali. "

" There are some people who have helped to advance me and other girls, but the fashion industry is always behind popular culture. They think they understand the zeitgeist. They don't know anything about the zeitgeist. "

" 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. "

" 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 arrive in New York on October 15, 1975. On my own, by the way. "

" 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. "

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

" I did not want to get involved with a rock star. No way. It is not a sane thing to do. "

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

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

" The day you settle for less is the day you will get less. "

" I have no intention of ever writing beauty tips on how to make an African-American nose look slimmer or Asian eyes look bigger. That's degrading. Asian eyes are what's beautiful about you and what makes you different. "