519 quotes found
“Empires are synonymous with centralized — if occasionally schismatized — hierarchical power structures in which influence is restricted to an economically privileged class retaining its advantages ...”
“It looks perverted and wasteful to us, but then one thing that empires are not about is the efficient use of resources and the spread of happiness; both are typically accomplished despite the econo...”
“And I do know about body image. About worrying about it. I made my living being 20 or 30 pounds heavier than the average model. And that's where I got famous. Victoria's Secret said I sold more bra...”
“I get so much mail from young girls who say, 'I look up to you, you're not as skinny as everyone else, I think you're beautiful' … So when they say that my body is 'ugly' and 'disgusting,' what doe...”
“Journalists told me that a talk show wouldn't work. Some told me I was going to get canceled before my first season was up. Before I did one show, they were, like 'Why do you want to do this? Do yo...”
“I was embarrassed when a businessman friend asked, 'What's the yearly budget of your talk show? What's the per-episode budget?' And I looked at him with these blank, typical-model eyes and said, 'I...”
“I never in a million years thought that I would be back on the runway, but I am so beyond excited and so ready for this”
“It’s a little bit of an out-of-body experience. I walked off that runway and I [had] this big retirement and it was such a spectacle. I felt like that athlete that’s like, I’m hanging up my cleats ...”
“You know, it’s interesting, because in terms of diversity, I was diverse. I was considered curvier, and I was a Black girl, and I think it’s important to still acknowledge that at that time … 19 ye...”
“I can’t really reveal that much, but I can tell you that I have been walking around in heels.”
“I was a fan of Victoria’s Secret before I was a model for Victoria’s Secret. I got that catalog in the mail … my parents even got me a Victoria’s Secret robe when I turned 16 that I still have to t...”
“Some people become cops because they want to make the world a better place, some people become vandals because they want to make the world a better looking place.”
“I need someone to protect me from all the measures they take in order to protect me.”
“We can't do anything to change the world until capitalism crumbles. In the meantime we should all go shopping to console ourselves.”
“I used to tell everyone I meant to be an artist..... I don't do that any more.”
“Sometimes I feel so sick at the state of the world I can’t even finish my second apple pie.”
“People who should be shot: Fascist thugs, religious fundamentalists, people who write lists telling you who should be shot.”
“We don’t need any more heroes; we just need someone to take out the recycling.”
“Think from outside the box, collapse the box and take a fucking knife to it.”
“If you want someone to be ignored, then build a life-size bronze statue of them and stick it in the middle of town...”
