Top 153 Quotes & Sayings by Somali Authors - Page 3

I was lucky enough to have parents that took me out from country to country and go to school and learn how to be a better person.

I don't know what a supermodel is. If they call me that, I might have to punch them. It's just so vain and so unreal.

I beg you, don't use the verb, 'discover', I hate it. What does it mean, that I didn't exist before?

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.

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 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.

Sometimes I wonder where I am from. I am either way ahead or I come from another world. I don't recognise this world.

People talk about the miracle of birth. No. There's the miracle of conception. I did IVF, but nothing happened. So I began to think of adoption, and then I got pregnant. It was definitely a miracle.

I was studying political science; I was adamant that I was going to follow in my father's footsteps.

I can enjoy what I'm engaged in and be fully present rather than planning my answers to questions while someone else is speaking or thinking about my next appointment while my current engagement is still in in progress.

As I always said: I fell in with David Jones. I did not fall in love with David Bowie.

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.

The women I gravitate to are the ones who defy convention and reinvent themselves - hence, they reinvent the world around them.

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

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.

I'm lucky in some ways in that I really don't need more than five or so hours of sleep.

From the stage, I can reach a large audience, and you learn from being on stage how much a song reaches, what extent of the crowd a song can reach. I write in a way that can reach most of the audience, but I also wanted to have truly intimate moments as well, many intimate moments, more so than the big moments.

I enjoy meditation. I think the artist's position is often to mend the things we feel are broken. Whether that's between two cultures or two thoughts. We're always trying to reach, trying to expand something.

When you work with a great director, you realise you are far from being a director.

When I started modeling, they tried to pay black models less than they paid Caucasian models. I turned down those jobs because I knew what I was worth.

I love life. I wish I could live another 500 years, truly. There is so much to do. I don't feel bitter or angry or disappointed. If anything, I am very grateful for where I come from. I have absolutely no regrets.

It's not really that I'm interested in filmmaking. I'm interested in the instrument of it, you know.

I'm not about trying to get and get and get. I feel good when I get, but I kind of feel better when I give.

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

I was born in Somalia, which is in East Africa. My parents started with nothing: poor, poor, poor. They eloped, which was unheard of in my country, when my father was 17 and my mother was 14.

I'm an optimist about other people. I'm not an optimist about myself.

I don't see myself only as a Somali character. I think of myself as an actor, and if the job fits me and I like the story, I will go for it.

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 wasn't making music consciously when I was younger. I was a musician, but that has its own stigmas. Anywhere on the planet, it's one of the more undervalued positions.

I am one of those people that's never been really cynical about life, you know.

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

I can't stand my legs, for a start, and you rarely see me in skirts.

You have to let the world speak to you and then you speak, you know, so I'm in that moment now where I'm finding the world's voice.