Beverly Johnson Quotes

#1. Instead of working out three times a week, I do something physical, like a one-hour walk everyday.

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#2. My dean gave me permission to model during my work semester, even though I was in the Criminal Justice Department. I don't know whether I'd ever have become a model if he hadn't let me do that.

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#3. My husband was just OK looking. I was in labor and I said to him, 'What if she's ugly? You're ugly.'

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#4. There's not a hair extension or a makeup artist that can make me feel the way I feel when i give back

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#5. I don't like to cook, but I like to eat popcorn with butter and salt.

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#6. Maybe, when you hear the name "Beverly," you think of Beverly Hills
people wandering the streets with their heads shot off by money.

Denis Johnson

#7. When people are alive they love, when they die, they keep loving. If love ends when person dies, that is not real love

Lisa See

#8. Human hair takes much more attention, as far as holding the style. You have to comb it, straighten it out, and wash and dry it.

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#9. You can't kill me. Even if you could, you can't bring yourself to do it. You'll hesitate. Again.

Richelle Mead

#10. When I went to Fashion Week, I was very disappointed by how few women of color were in those shows. I do speak to the younger girls, and I hear them when they say they're not getting the big contracts or into the big shows.

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#11. Keep a copy of 'Islands in the Stream' by Ernest Hemingway on the left hand side of your desk. Keep Fitzgerald's 'The Crack Up' on the right. When you get stuck, pick them up and pretend that they are having a fight, like you used to do with your GI Joes.

Lynn Coady

#12. When they launch snakes you'll have your namesake.

Philippa Gregory

#13. Most Americans think of hunger as a problem affecting only places like India, Africa or South America. But it is a tragic reality that our country has millions of children who are suffering from lack of food. We must all work together to save our country from this problem.

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#14. Once a Supermodel, always a Supermodel.

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#15. Business is hard, really hard, but it's worth it.

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#16. My style is a little bit different than most conventional Republican Party chairmen. My style is more grass roots-oriented. I'm much more of a street guy. I love hanging out in boardrooms, but I prefer to be in neighborhoods and communities.

Michael Steele

#17. I am a free man.

Michael Reagan

#18. A person can be big, because of spirit. A person can be big because of their position in the family, the hierarchy in the family. That role has been played by women who are quite thin.

Phylicia Rashad

#19. I was supposedly living this glamorous life, but I was crippled by the idea of growing old and where do I go next? The whole age thing - in our industry, it's everything.

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#20. I tried acting and all of the arts, I even put out a record album, but what I like the most is business.

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#21. Business fits me best. The only reason I went into modeling originally was to help out my family, because I knew that money gave you freedom.

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#22. Everyone should have enough money to get plastic surgery.

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#23. Rocks make no compromise for sex ... rock climbing is not like some sports, where it is made easier for women; or sports like, say, softball, which is only baseball for soft people. On a rock, everything is equal.

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#24. My daughter decided to embrace and celebrate who she was. She was a size 2 at one time, but she decided she didn't want to be hungry anymore. I think that's how you turn it around. Today, more and more designers are recognizing how lucrative that market is.

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