American Quotes

I don't want to be known as the black model. I want to be recognized as Chanel Iman, a personality.

I don't like to fly. What's it called when the plane shakes? Turbulence, takeoffs... I grab my chair, close my eyes, count to 30, breathe, and pray.

I don't get facials. The last time I got a facial was when I first started modeling when I was 15 or 16. It made my face completely break out.

I am comfortable with my body and embrace who I am. I love to work it.

I always take my time when picking out outfits at home, but I will say I can change pretty quick when I'm in a hurry.

Honestly, I try to forget Fashion Week once it's over. I just want to go home and rest and just forget I even did it. It could drive you crazy! It's just show after show after show, and you're missing your family and they feel really far away. You don't go to sleep. You work for a month.

Don't be afraid to express yourself through fashion!

At the end of the day, I feel like I have no one to blame but myself if I'm not satisfied with how I look on the runway.

Accept yourself, love yourself.

A good night's sleep is always the best way to wake up and go to work.

Five years from now I see myself still working hard to get where I want to be, because I think big.

The public school has become the established church of secular society.

School divides life into two segments, which are increasingly of comparable length. As much as anything else, schooling implies custodial care for persons who are declared undesirable elsewhere by the simple fact that a school has been built to serve them.

There is no greater distance than that between a man in prayer and God.

Effective health care depends on self-care; this fact is currently heralded as if it were a discovery.

We must rediscover the distinction between hope and expectation.

Leadership does not depend on being right.

The compulsion to do good is an innate American trait. Only North Americans seem to believe that they always should, may, and actually can choose somebody with whom to share their blessings. Ultimately this attitude leads to bombing people into the acceptance of gifts.

At the moment of death I hope to be surprised.

Modern medicine is a negation of health. It isn't organized to serve human health, but only itself, as an institution. It makes more people sick than it heals.

Healthy people are those who live in healthy homes on a healthy diet; in an environment equally fit for birth, growth work, healing, and dying... Healthy people need no bureaucratic interference to mate, give birth, share the human condition and die.

You get in trouble, you have to evaluate: Is it worth getting into trouble again? It's a lot easier to make that decision when you have a career at stake.

Music is my life.

If you miss one day in physics, that's it.

I've never seen a woman half as beautiful as Jennifer Love Hewitt.

I was always handsome under all the fat.

I intentionally aided them by being there and blocking an avenue of escape for the victims.

I ate everything - a lot of pizza, bags of chips and boxes of cookies. Now I love chicken, that's all I eat.

I actually just started home schooling. And it is great.

I never, ever would or did rob anyone in my life.