#ode

I like looking feminine and I enjoy being a role model. I enjoy being a woman. It all comes down to having the confidence to be who you are. ↗

— Cathy Freeman

#comes #confidence #down #enjoy #feminine

If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model. Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush. ↗

— Dawn French

#been #fabulous #had #i #kate

A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's really attractive. ↗

— Bruce Jay Friedman

#attractive #behavior #code #dishonorable #friend

My definition of modernism took a while to develop. ↗

— Peter Gay

#develop #modernism #took #while

Is it not dangerous to have students study together for years, copying the same models and approximately the same path? ↗

— Theodore Gericault

#copying #dangerous #models #path #same

So while I was studying, I rode my Trials bike, then I moved to roadracing. ↗

— Sete Gibernau

#i #moved #roadracing #rode #studying

The real issue is not talent as an independent element, but talent in relationship to will, desire, and persistence. Talent without these things vanishes and even modest talent with those characteristics grows. ↗

— Milton Glaser

#desire #element #even #grows #independent

I'm not on a mission. I'm not a paragon of health for anybody. I'm not going to run a marathon or model for 'Men's Health' or go on bike rides with Lance Armstrong. I'm not. Trust me. ↗

— Duff Goldman

#armstrong #bike #go #going #health

...my classical values make me advocate the triplet of erudition, elegance, and courage; against modernity's phoniness, nerdiness, and philistinism...many philistines reduce my ideas to an opposition of technology when in fact I am opposing the naive blindness to it's side affects - the fragility criterion. I'd rather be unconditional about ethical and conditional about technology than the the reverse. ↗

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#fragility #internet-addiction #modern-values #modernity #modernity-is-a-sickness

I lead two totally separate lives. There are times when I have to slip into rock star mode. ↗

— Martin Gore

#into #lead #lives #mode #rock