Yves Saint Laurent
Fashion Designer
"A good model can advance fashion by ten years."
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Models
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The Notorious B.I.G.
Rapper, songwriter
"The hustlers on the corner were my role models."
Robert Anton Wilson
Author, Philosopher
"Any model we make does not describe the universe it describes what our brains are capable of saying at this time."
Jennifer Lawrence
Actress
"I've always loved food too much to be a model."
Charlie Munger
Investor, Businessman
"A business model that relies on trickery is doomed to fail."
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"You've got to have models in your head and you've got to array you experience - both vicarious and direct - onto this latticework of mental models."
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"Luck is not a business model."
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"Art takes nature as its model."
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"The Cuban model doesn't even work for us anymore."
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"To model an object is to possess it."
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"Models are the most physically insecure women on the planet."
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"I strongly believe every model has a right to set rules for how she is portrayed and for me these rules were clearly circumvented."
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"The best models of English writing are Shakespeare and the Old Testament."
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"Existence is larger than any model that is not itself the exact size of existence (which has no size)."
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"If you have a business model that relies on customers being misinformed, you better start working on changing your business model."
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"A picture is a model of reality."
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"The oppressed find in the oppressors their model of 'manhood.'"
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"I wanted to be an actress, and I wanted to be a model."
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"The women can always choose the patriarchal models, and you end up with a Margaret Thatcher."
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"Do not become the slave of your model."
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"The model is not to be copied, but to be realized."
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"If you model yourself after Lawrence Fishburne, you can never go wrong."
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"But as a young model, I never felt as beautiful as I looked."
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"I model irregular clothing."
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"I think Stella Tennant is amazing. And then I really loved all those 60s society models, like Edie Sedgwick."
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