Iman Abdulmajid Quotes
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For me, diversity whether you think of it as race or gender, it's not a trend, it's a human movement, it's a human feeling, it's a human desire.
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I come from Somalia. We start working young, and we understand that kind of life. I would be bored to death not doing anything creative.
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Your image as a model is your currency. That's the only thing you've got. No one cares what you look like in real life. Nobody is going to say the make up guy was terrible. They will say, you look awful and let's not book her again.
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Make sure your decision to have a child is based on the need to share your life completely with another little human being and not because of some personal need for validation as a woman.
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The one thing my mother instilled in me, well both my parents but specifically my mother - I come from a Muslim country where boys were more wanted than girls so she always made me feel that there is nothing that I couldn't do as well as the boys if not better.
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Bethann Hardison has been my collaborator, my closest friend, we've gone through starting businesses, losing businesses, kids, divorces, marriages, and she was my maid of honor when I married my husband, David Bowie. And she's still such a part of my life. This is the person when it's totally dark, outside and inside, this is the person I would call.
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I vowed to myself when I got married that I would cook every night. I find it very therapeutic.
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Men can get jobs from one country to another, they can get in. But the people who always fell through the cracks were women and children, especially when you are displaced. I've always said, 'I am the face of a refugee.'
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People might want to think, "We don't need it," but you know, we can't stop it. It's a movement, which means that it's moving, whether you like it or not, it's going to move.
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Every generation and every group brings the door into other things.
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I believe in glamour. I am in favor of a little vanity. I don't rely on just my genes. Looking good is a commitment to yourself and to others.
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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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I'm quite insufferable about fitness, I suppose. I think it's really important, though I'm not a body nut.
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My father taught me how to be a parent and gave me a positive connection with men because he is a gentleman.
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The commitment to give of yourself and the knowledge that the time is right are what's important. The thing is, I suppose, a younger person may not correctly divine the right time, because of lack of life experience, so the older woman may have the advantage of truly knowing if it's right or not.
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The relationship I have with Bethann [Hardison], it's so unique. It's based on trust. But most importantly, Bethann is the one who will call on me if I'm doing something wrong. That's a very specific relationship.
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I would rather Google other people than Google myself.
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The child must come first above all else. And pace yourself every day. There is quite a lot you will have to give up.
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There is no age better than another.
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There is strength in numbers.
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I think it came out of the fact that I'm a very personal person who lives a very public life. It's the only thing that I thought people would want to hear, and it's never about just being inspirational.
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There's a lot that I haven't put up there since my husband passed away because then it would be grief everyday. I have to fight within myself at times and ask, 'how do I go through the grief and find a light, even a glimmer of it?'
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If you are an activist, you have to stay active on a daily basis.
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My saving grace was that I always knew when to leave the party.
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A self-esteem issue doesn't change whether you're considered beautiful or not because it's about what's inside you.
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My worst year. The only thing that I know for a fact now is that if it's really a bad day, then I draw the curtains, and I lay in bed. There is no way of dealing with grief. And I have no idea. This year I had double of them, my mother and my husband. I just take it one day at a time.
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Don't be afraid to walk away from things that are just not right for you.
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That to be an activist, you have to stay active. For me, it's profound; it's not something you choose to do every five years because it's chic to say it.
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Pulling off a zebra-print dress can be challenging for some.
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As a young girl, I was much more preoccupied by my flaws. Everyone teased me because of my long, skinny neck. To hide my so-called deformity, I was wearing a turtleneck when I was 3! Yet my neck is probably my best asset. At the end of the day, what counts is the entire package.
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